Medical Xpress September 12, 2019
Modern health care has led to enormous gains in life expectancy and quality of life. However, rising health-care costs, increasing rates of chronic diseases, aging populations and the effects of advancing climate change are placing increasing pressures on our health-care systems.
It is therefore imperative that we make health-care services more efficient and sustainable —so that savings can be made without compromising quality or further damaging the ecosystems on which human health depends. To do so, we must go beyond the traditional and exclusive focus on cost and consider a wider range of factors that bear on human health and well-being.
The World Health Organization has highlighted the mutually reinforcing nature of economic, environmental and social sustainability...
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