Healthcare Circular Economy: Opportunities and Challenges
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Economics".
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Dear colleagues,
The idea of a circular economy suggests a path to save environmental natural resources, sustainable growth, decent jobs, and good health (Abad-Segura, González-Zamar, and Belmonte-Ureña, 2020; Lin, 2020). In addition, the transition from the linear economy to the circular economy is expected to support and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Corona, Shen, Reike, Rosales Carreón, and Worrell, 2019; Hanumante, Shastri, and Hoadley, 2019), especially the 12th goal of SDGs that focused on the production and consumption. A transition to the circular economy offers several opportunities to the healthcare benefits and contribution to the achieve various goals of sustainable development concept (SDGs) (Pieroni, McAloone, and Pigosso, 2019; Saidani, Yannou, Leroy, Cluzel, and Kendall, 2019). The benefits would be the direct and indirect health care sector savings and decrease the environmental impacts of consumption and production.
The understanding of the health impacts and their transition to the circular economy, mainly in terms of water reuse, distributional effects, chemicals of concern, and electronic and electrical waste, demonstrate significant gaps in both literature and practical views. Therefore, the global strategies, policy discussions, and action plans for regional and national for a circular economy should increase the coverage and better integrate the risks and benefits of health. In this regard, the healthcare sector would actively be involved in the transition process of the circular economy. However, heretofore, the health implication coverage for transiting to a circular economy is limited.
According to the above discussions and the current gap in the literature review to the transition of health to the circular economy, this Special Issue aims to address the transition of the health context. Therefore, in order to understand the importance of the transition of health to the circular economy, in this Special Issue, we are interested in sharing the state‐of‐the‐art literature in health’s circular concept and establishing a reliable connection to the sustainable development context.
Dr. Abdoulmohammad Gholamzadeh Chofreh
Dr. Abbas Mardani
Dr. Syed Abdul Rehman Khan
Guest Editors
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