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Healthcare Financing and Sustainability

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

Definition

Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3): “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages” (UN SDG 2018a).

Health care, in this entry, refers mainly to health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment services covering primary care, secondary care, tertiary care, and rehabilitation services, provided either on an out-patient basis or in a hospital setting.

Health care financing refers to sources of fund (both public and private sources) that can be used to pay for the above-mentioned health care services.

Introduction

Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been established by the United Nations as targets for the world to achieve with an objective to uphold sustainability (UN SDG 2018a). This entry is about SDG 3, which is to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages” (UN SDG 2018a), focusing on healthcare financing sustainability in light of population ageing. Environmental and social factors affecting human...

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  1. College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Peter P. Yuen

  2. School of Professional Education and Executive Development, College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Artie W. Ng

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  1. FTZ-ALS, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences FTZ-ALS, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Centre for Work Related Studies, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

  3. University of Aveiro , Aveiro, Portugal

    Ulisses Azeiteiro

  4. Ctr Neurosci & Cell Biology, 1 Floor, Univ Coimbra, Edf Fac Medicina, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  5. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  6. Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

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Yuen, P.P., Ng, A.W. (2019). Healthcare Financing and Sustainability. In: Leal Filho, W., Wall, T., Azeiteiro, U., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P. (eds) Good Health and Well-Being. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69627-0_35-1

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