Sustainable development practices in healthcare: a systematic review.

IF 1.7 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES

Journal of Health Organization and Management Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI:10.1108/JHOM-06-2024-0224

Luca Del Bene, Giulia Leoni, Carlo Vermiglio, Vincenzo Zarone

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Abstract

Purpose: Healthcare organizations are rethinking their practices in response to the framework provided by the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The purpose of this paper is to explore whether, how and why sustainable development practices have been implemented in the healthcare sector.

Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on a systematic literature review, carried out using Scopus and Web of Science databases. The papers were analyzed according to the five activity-based theoretical framework categories: purpose, subject, community, object and practices.

Findings: Results reveal a lack of research regarding the integration of sustainable development and SDGs into managerial systems or functions. Moreover, they identify key areas of interest within sustainable development and healthcare practices, offering guidance for future research and strategies to better align healthcare with the SDGs.

Originality/value: To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first paper that aims to summarize the scientific literature on this topic through the lens of the activity-based theoretical framework, allowing for an analysis of the literature that investigates how sustainable development practices shape organizational life.

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卫生保健中的可持续发展做法：系统审查。

目的：医疗保健组织正在根据可持续发展目标（sdg）提供的框架重新思考其实践。本文的目的是探讨可持续发展实践是否、如何以及为什么在医疗保健部门实施。设计/方法/方法：本研究基于系统的文献综述，使用Scopus和Web of Science数据库。本文从目的、主体、共同体、客体和实践五个方面对活动理论框架进行了分析。研究结果表明，缺乏将可持续发展和可持续发展目标纳入管理系统或职能的研究。此外，它们还确定了可持续发展和医疗保健实践中的关键领域，为未来的研究和战略提供指导，以更好地使医疗保健与可持续发展目标保持一致。原创性/价值：据作者所知，这是第一篇旨在通过以活动为基础的理论框架来总结关于这一主题的科学文献的论文，允许对研究可持续发展实践如何塑造组织生活的文献进行分析。

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Journal of Health Organization and Management HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES-

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3.20

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7.10%

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期刊介绍： ■International health and international organizations ■Organisational behaviour, governance, management and leadership ■The inter-relationship of health and public sector services ■Theories and practices of management and leadership in health and related organizations ■Emotion in health care organizations ■Management education and training ■Industrial relations and human resource theory and management. As the demands on the health care industry both polarize and intensify, effective management of financial and human resources, the restructuring of organizations and the handling of market forces are increasingly important areas for the industry to address.