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Sustainability Strategies for Regional Health

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Good Health and Well-Being

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Definition

Sustainability denotes the ability of government (ministries, department, and agencies), private, and civil society sectors to perform certain activities on continuum scale, especially at the end of donor-supported regime, by keeping the project moving at a desired phase, for impact and/or outcomes (Joaquin 1998; Lyson et al. 2001). Regional health is a new healthcare concept which deals with healthcare issues at the grassroot level. It is an emerging concept which addresses health issues within a rural populace (Frank et al. 2005). Regional health system (RHS) is defined by its regional boundaries (Dash 2009), characterized by its financing, coordination, organizing, risk pooling, health services provision, and management capacity among others (Yap 2017). The fundamental goal of regional health system is to improve the health status of the target community (Frank et al. 2005).

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Sustainability as a concept is vague lacking in distinct definition, characterized by...

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  1. Global Health Governance, United Nations University – International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Ibrahim Umar

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Umar, I. (2020). Sustainability Strategies for Regional Health. In: Leal Filho, W., Wall, T., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G. (eds) Good Health and Well-Being. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95681-7_41

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