Sustainability and Resilience in Health: The Role of Performance Management

Dear Colleagues,

Health systems face challenges which are inherent to care demand and supply evolution (i.e., demographic change, new technologies) or are the results of unexpected occurrences originating outside the health system such as economic shocks or epidemic outbreaks. Both challenges often require a paradigm shift in governance and organization, financing and resource allocation, accountability frameworks, as well as public health system responses.

Consistently, scholars recently re-defined the concept of value in healthcare, highlighting its different dimensions: allocative value, personal value, technical value, and societal value. Performance management systems are thus called to embrace this new concept.

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) seeks to advance our understanding of managerial strategies, governance mechanisms, as well as performance management systems that can be applied to cope with different scenarios.

Specific themes include (but are not limited to) the following:

• How performance measurement systems evolve, or should evolve, to support decision-makers in dealing with the emergent challenges. What are the implications for information systems?
• How does the organization and management of different health systems capture the health and social needs of populations?
• What could be the factors that help to build resilience, making it easier for health systems to respond effectively to future challenges?
• How can embracing the multifaceted elements of value in performance management lead to a sustainable health system?
• What are the intended or unintended consequences of the different strategies health systems and organizations implemented for the evolving scenarios?

Papers dealing with one or more of the current challenges of healthcare systems are welcome. In particular, we are open to papers presenting research at micro, meso, and macro levels. For this Special Issue we will balance empirical research, case studies, as well as theoretical, methodological, or position papers.

We will accept manuscripts from different disciplines, including management, accounting, epidemiology, health impact assessment, and crisis management.

Dr. Milena Vainieri
Dr. Laura Rosella
Dr. Guido Noto
Dr. Francesca Ferré
Guest Editors

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