TY - JOUR
TI - Public financing and management for a sustainable healthcare sector: some lessons from the covid-19 pandemic
AU - Tsani, S.
AU - Riza, E.
AU - Tsiamagka, P.
AU - Nassi, M.
JO - World Sustainability Series
PY - 2021
VL - null
TODO - null
SP - 233-254
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
SN - null
TODO - 10.1007/978-3-030-69284-1_12
TODO - null
TODO - As the Covid-19 pandemic evolves, healthcare system sustainability and resilience worldwide has been in the spotlight. Observations indicate the significant human and financial capital requirements to address the immense pressure. While the pandemic constitutes an unprecedented shock, the coordinated mobilization of public capital and intervention in the healthcare systems worldwide provide a prime opportunity for sustainable change and transformation. This can materialize if efforts and funding focus on socio-economic and healthcare system innovation, infrastructure and green investment support. This chapter discusses the public financing responses worldwide towards the support of healthcare systems in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. It also discusses the organizational challenges and changes that should be put in place to make the healthcare system resilient to unforeseen shocks. These regard innovation support, healthcare personnel planning, establishing new models of care delivery, and other interventions that have the potential of securing uninterrupted, sustainable and efficient healthcare systems both at the personal and at the population level. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
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