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Health systems have long been considered key determinants of
well-being within modern societies, a valuable resource which have
faced a series of reform initiatives throughout the past decades.
These reforms have been used to manage the cost of development,
measure the tenability of health systems in globalizing economies
and promote the increasing importance of health problems related to
lifestyle and living conditions, yet they have failed to provide a
true resolution to the persistent economical and logistical
problems facing modern-day health systems. This rich,
interdisciplinary work explores the hypothesis that many of these
problems cannot be adequately addressed without structural changes
to our health systems, and examines the embedded features of our
health systems that underlie contemporary challenges as well as
how, and under what conditions, our health systems can be made more
sustainable. Combining and building upon theoretical approaches
from transition and innovation studies for analysing health system
deficits, Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems
raises fundamental questions about how new research, new needs and
exogenous trends are transforming current health innovation
systems. Providing an original and substantial analysis of the
complex structural features of the health innovation system, this
book will be of interest to students and practitioners of the
politics of health, social epidemiology, medical sociology and
those with an interest in transition theory.
Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern
about the social and environmental risks which have come along with
the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined
modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are
transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to
events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and
increasing awareness of the risks and realities of climate change,
and the energy and food crises. This sense of urgency includes an
awareness that our entire social system is in need of fundamental
transformation. But like the earlier transition between the 1750's
and 1890's from a pre-modern to a modern industrial society, this
second transition is also a contested one. Sustainable development
is only one of many options. This book addresses the issue on how
to understand the dynamics and governance of the second transition
dynamics in order to ensure sustainable development. It will be
necessary reading for students and scholars with an interest in
sustainable development and long-term transformative change.
Health systems have long been considered key determinants of
well-being within modern societies, a valuable resource which have
faced a series of reform initiatives throughout the past decades.
These reforms have been used to manage the cost of development,
measure the tenability of health systems in globalizing economies
and promote the increasing importance of health problems related to
lifestyle and living conditions, yet they have failed to provide a
true resolution to the persistent economical and logistical
problems facing modern-day health systems. This rich,
interdisciplinary work explores the hypothesis that many of these
problems cannot be adequately addressed without structural changes
to our health systems, and examines the embedded features of our
health systems that underlie contemporary challenges as well as
how, and under what conditions, our health systems can be made more
sustainable. Combining and building upon theoretical approaches
from transition and innovation studies for analysing health system
deficits, Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems
raises fundamental questions about how new research, new needs and
exogenous trends are transforming current health innovation
systems. Providing an original and substantial analysis of the
complex structural features of the health innovation system, this
book will be of interest to students and practitioners of the
politics of health, social epidemiology, medical sociology and
those with an interest in transition theory.
In this book 60 authors from many disciplines and from 18 countries
on five continents examine in ten parts: Moving towards
Sustainability Transition; Aiming at Sustainable Peace; Meeting
Challenges of the 21st Century: Demographic Imbalances, Temperature
Rise and the Climate-Conflict Nexus; Initiating Research on Global
Environmental Change, Limits to Growth, Decoupling of Growth and
Resource Needs; Developing Theoretical Approaches on Sustainability
and Transitions; Analysing National Debates on Sustainability in
North America; Preparing Transitions towards a Sustainable Economy
and Society, Production and Consumption and Urbanization; Examining
Sustainability Transitions in the Water, Food and Health Sectors
from Latin American and European Perspectives; Preparing
Sustainability Transitions in the Energy Sector; and Relying on
Transnational, International, Regional and National Governance for
Strategies and Policies Towards Sustainability Transition. This
book is based on workshops held in Mexico (2012) and in the US
(2013), on a winter school at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
(2013), and on commissioned chapters. The workshop in Mexico and
the publication were supported by two grants by the German
Foundation for Peace Research (DSF). All texts in this book were
peer-reviewed by scholars from all parts of the world.
One way to shape technology and its embedding in society in the
21st century is through the visions that guide their development,
especially concerning the long-term societal perspective. A
critical discussion and assessment of these visions is a
prerequisite for influencing the course of development. Technology
assessment, therefore, has to provide a methodological repertoire
for assessing and constructing visions, taking into account the
requirements for long-term orientation as well as the need for
public legitimation. This volume draws upon insights from
technology assessment, political sciences, epistemology, sociology
and ethics. It is to contribute to the recent literature in on
"shaping technology," taking into account the "co-evolution of
technology and society." It connects to that technology assessment
literature that emphasises TA's pro-active role and its
contribution to political judgement.
Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern
about the social and environmental risks which have come along with
the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined
modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are
transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to
events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and
increasing awareness of the risks and realities of climate change,
and the energy and food crises. This sense of urgency includes an
awareness that our entire social system is in need of fundamental
transformation. But like the earlier transition between the 1750's
and 1890's from a pre-modern to a modern industrial society, this
second transition is also a contested one. Sustainable development
is only one of many options. This book addresses the issue on how
to understand the dynamics and governance of the second transition
dynamics in order to ensure sustainable development. It will be
necessary reading for students and scholars with an interest in
sustainable development and long-term transformative change.
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