Sustainable quality improvement and other practical solutions to implement sustainable healthcare

Sehdev, Simran and Barna, Stefi and Vyas, Aditya (2024) Sustainable quality improvement and other practical solutions to implement sustainable healthcare. In: Routledge handbook of climate change and health system sustainability. Routledge, London, pp. 194-202. ISBN 9781032701196

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Abstract

This chapter presents several conceptual frameworks to help clinicians and health system managers respond to the environmental, social and financial pressures—called the ‘triple bottom line’—on the health system. The sustainable value equation helps identify waste, harm, and benefits in those three areas. The principles of sustainable clinical practice direct attention from infrastructural or recycling projects upstream to more powerful drivers of pollution and waste. For example, using lower carbon options when available, making care pathways leaner and less wasteful, empowering patients to collaborate in the management of their illness, and, most importantly, keeping people healthy and, therefore, out of hospital. The chapter introduces a useful tool for triple bottom line quality improvement and quality management projects, and a number of well-quantified examples in various specialties are described.

Item Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Sehdev, Simran and Barna, Stefi and Vyas, Aditya
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID Braithwaite, Jeffrey UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Zurynski, Yvonne UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Smith, Carolynn K-lynn UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Document Language:	Language English
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Environment and Sustainability, Health and Social Care
Subjects:	Social sciences > Economics > Production > Sustainable development Technology > Management & public relations Public Health
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru
Full Text Status:	None
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/6800
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032701196-25

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