Envisioning smart and sustainable healthcare: 3D Printing technologies for personalized medication

Aquino, Rita Patrizia; Barile, Sergio; Grasso, Antonio; Saviano, Marialuisa

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2018.03.002

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“…Interactions within organizations and between them and their environments give us the handle to discuss today's lack of fitness of governance in the Anthropocene; our society and its institutions need effective learning mechanisms, so far lacking, to cope with a fragile environment and face the limited rationality in decision-making (Simon 1991). Current information technology offers tools to foster smartness in the quest for sustainability (Aquino et al 2018). Effective communication and smart technologies make more likely organizational structures sensitive to changing environments and able to distribute scalable responses from the local to the global.…”

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“…However, the ultimate purpose is to stimulate reflection and debate on the need of general frameworks of reference when dealing with relevant issues like health and poverty. The sustainability and sustainable development frameworks appear generally important references that should be always considered, both at theoretical and practical level, in the analysis of any kind of societal, economic as well as environmental issue [59][60][61][62][63]. Future research is required in this context to link local and specific models of action to the general frameworks of sustainability and sustainable development in order to consider as universal paradigm of reference.…”

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Healthcare and SDGs Governance in Light of the Sustainability Helix Model: Evidence from the African Continent

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This work is based on a view of healthcare as a fundamental Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to share globally to be effective at local level. On this basis, the paper analyzes the health programs in less-favored areas with the aim of understanding why the United Nations SDGs are so difficult to reach in some countries. A brief review of the main literature and research on the health governance systems in three countries of the African continent have been conducted to this aim. The results are interpreted through the sustainability helix model (SHM). Key roles and conditions of effectiveness of the health sustainable development governance approach in the investigated countries are discussed. The main findings reveal that the analyzed governance systems lack implementation plans. By discussing the observed problem in the light of the sustainability helix model, fundamental elements of a health sustainable development helix model have been identified in less favored countries where key actors and roles are identified. The study highlights, in particular, the relevance of ‘interface’ roles played by non-governmental actors (NGA) and international actors (IA) in the health governance system of less-favored countries. These actors and roles allow connections between the global and the local levels of action favoring interaction among actors institutionally devoted to governing development.

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“…Healthcare sustainability refers to the capacity of healthcare systems to ensure the long-term health and well-being of communities [1]. It is threatened, in several countries, by factors such as aging populations [2], increases in multiple-chronic diseases [3], scarcity of financial resources [4] and an increasing distrust and dissatisfaction by citizens.…”

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“…These challenges require the allocation of enormous financial resources to the prevention, assistance, care, research and technologies that are necessary to ensure the continued health of the population. However, after the economic and financial crisis of 2008, many countries-especially within the European community-have been affected by austerity policies and public spending cuts, shifting the focus from the ethical-value dimension [5] and humanization of the service [1] to the rationalization of resources and technical/economic performance [1,6]. In view of these problems, new strategic and organizational guidelines are required to ensure the sustainability of healthcare.…”

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Empowering Patients to Co-Create a Sustainable Healthcare Value

2019

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Extensive literature suggests that a solution to the current problems of healthcare sustainability is the active involvement of patients in health management through the empowerment of their abilities. Latest marketing frameworks suggest that patients are important resources for co-creating health value together with operators. This research aims to analyze the effects of patient empowerment on patients’ value co-creation behaviors. An empirical survey was conducted on 250 patients with chronic diseases in Italy. The results, analyzed using the structural equation modeling, showed that their empowerment enhanced value co-creation behaviors. Patients apply their health competencies and resources in their co-creation of health service with operators. It is, therefore, important to empower patients in their transformation from passive to active stakeholders, working with providers for the most optimal health outcomes. This research provides practitioners with suggestions for patient involvement which utilizes their knowledge, capabilities and responsibility to improving healthcare services.

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Envisioning smart and sustainable healthcare: 3D Printing technologies for personalized medication

Cited by 94 publications

References 80 publications

People, technology, and governance for sustainability: the contribution of systems and cyber-systemic thinking

People, technology, and governance for sustainability: the contribution of systems and cyber-systemic thinking

Healthcare and SDGs Governance in Light of the Sustainability Helix Model: Evidence from the African Continent

Empowering Patients to Co-Create a Sustainable Healthcare Value

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