Special Issue "Challenge of Sustainable Healthcare Financing Across Eur-Asia and Emerging Markets in 2020s"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic
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Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo 102-8160, Japan
Interests: global health; Global Burden of Disease Project; big data; health care financing & expenditures; evaluation of policy; programs and health system performance; organisation of health care markets; health economics; emerging markets
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Prof. Dr. Takuma Sugahara
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Faculty of Economics, Hosei University, 102-8160 Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Yuriy Timofeyev
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School of Business Administration, Faculty of Business and Management, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Interests: managerial economics; corruption; healthcare management; cost-effectiveness
Assist. Prof. Dr. Michael A. Talias
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Healthcare Management Postgraduate Program, Faculty of Economics and Management, Open University Cyprus, P.O. Box 12794, 2252 Nicosia, Cyprus
Interests: health economics; healthcare management; health services research; health methodology; sustainability
Prof. Dr. Simon Grima
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Insurance Department, Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy, University of Malta, Msida (MSD2080), Malta
Interests: governance; insurance; assurance; banking; investments; risk management; audit management; compliance; IT risk management; portfolio management; derivatives
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Eurasia and its inner and outer emerging markets remain closely mutually interconnected via globalization strings. This shall remain the case, even through Covid, which has caused global economic downturn and crisis, fully unravelling in the early 2020s. Prior to the pandemic, there were severe difficulties funding existent social protection, pension, retirement, and labor market policies, which were inherited from the historical era of demographic growth across the world. This period effectively ended several decades ago, being replaced with the spread and acceleration of the global population ageing phenomenon. All of these bottlenecks of financial sustainability will be worsened by the world’s economic lock-down, triggered by the pandemic.

This Specialty Issue aims to gain profound knowledge on healthcare financing sustainability in the early years of the worldwide economic crisis of the 2020s. The main aim of healthcare structures is to protect and improve the health of a population. Ensuring this may put a heavy strain on resources. Therefore, when it comes to healthcare services, sustainability has to be taken into account as a main requirement and an important issue. We need to ensure the timely and cost-effective delivery of high-quality healthcare in the modern world, where fast changing and challenging circumstances and demands, mainly due to the increased web of globalization resulting from travel, and an increase in longevity are all are putting pressure on healthcare systems. With these assumptions in mind, we need to investigate sustainable high-quality healthcare, ensure ongoing research and development in this complex subject, while ensuring quality of service and cost-effectiveness, with the objective being to develop innovative systems, solutions, and strategies to realize sustainability, especially in the main macro-areas.

There is a clear need to build hospitals and healthcare stations that are able to cope with health as a complete well-being concept. Such complex realities can work only if every single part is healthy and care is taken to proactively act on prospective disrupters.

Regardless of current pandemic-related efforts, a broader perspective on healthcare funding sustainability shall supposedly be shaken during the years ahead in rich and poor nations alike. Eurasian and emerging markets acted as engines of global economic growth, before, during, and after the last worldwide recession of 2007–2017. Thus, these same nations will be the hotbed of change in the next wave of crises. Asia has leadership in many medical innovations and has cutting-edge E-Health technologies, with an increasing frequency of high-end patents. Given these facts, we plan to attract submissions overlapping the mentioned research questions in its broadest sense, without limitations on jurisdictions where submissions might come from.

Prof. Dr. Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic
Prof. Dr. Takuma Sugahara
Dr. Yuriy Timofeyev
Assist. Prof. Dr. Michael A. Talias
Prof. Dr. Simon Grima
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Keywords

  • emerging markets
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • healthcare
  • financing
  • sustainability
  • spending
  • XXI century
  • crisis
  • 2020s
  • BRICS
  • EM7
  • next eleven

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Highlighting the Role of Universally Available and Innate Immune Cell Counts in Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Scoping Review
Sustainability 2021, 13(7), 4069; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13074069 - 06 Apr 2021
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Stroke is one of the leading causes of adult disability and the second leading cause of death worldwide. The immune system actively participates in the pathobiological process of acute ischemic stroke (AIS), during the index event and the repair process. Research on neurovascular [...] Read more.
Stroke is one of the leading causes of adult disability and the second leading cause of death worldwide. The immune system actively participates in the pathobiological process of acute ischemic stroke (AIS), during the index event and the repair process. Research on neurovascular inflammation has created a renewed interest in the use of easily available biomarkers reflective of innate and adaptive immunological changes with potential diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic implications particularly in AIS. The current scoping review aimed to assess the significance the neutrophil to lymphocyte (NLR) in AIS and its related complications and explore their association with post-stroke recovery trajectory. The Arksey and O’Malley methodological framework was employed to review the published papers on the neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and AIS in late November 2020. Only studies published in English from 2000–2020 were included in this scoping review. Fifty-three published papers were reviewed. This review’s key finding is that a canonical inflammatory response occurs in the hyperacute, acute, subacute, and chronic stages of stroke. An excessive circulating innate immune cells (neutrophils) and reduced circulating adaptive immune cells (lymphocytes) are associated with poorer outcomes during the acute interventions as well as the recovery trajectory. This scoping review’s findings highlights the utility of a systems biology-based approach in stroke care. Full article
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Public Health Policy of India and COVID-19: Diagnosis and Prognosis of the Combating Response
Sustainability 2021, 13(6), 3415; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063415 - 19 Mar 2021
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(1) Background: Society and public policy have been remained interwoven since the inception of the modern state. Public health policy has been one of the important elements of the public administration of the Government of India (GOI). In order to universalize healthcare facilities [...] Read more.
(1) Background: Society and public policy have been remained interwoven since the inception of the modern state. Public health policy has been one of the important elements of the public administration of the Government of India (GOI). In order to universalize healthcare facilities for all, the GOI has formulated and implemented the national health policy (NHP). The latest NHP (2017) has been focused on the “Health in All” approach. On the other hand, the ongoing pandemic COVID-19 had left critical impacts on India’s health, healthcare system, and human security. The paper’s main focus is to critically examine the existing healthcare facilities and the GOI’s response to combat the COVID-19 apropos the NHP 2017. The paper suggests policy options that can be adopted to prevent the further expansion of the pandemic and prepare the country for future health emergency-like situations. (2) Methods: Extensive literature search was done in various databases, such as Scopus, Web of Science, Medline/PubMed, and google scholar search engines to gather relevant information in the Indian context. (3) Results: Notwithstanding the several combatting steps on a war-footing level, COVID-19 has placed an extra burden over the already overstretched healthcare infrastructure. Consequently, infected cases and deaths have been growing exponentially, making India stand in second place among the top ten COVID-19-infected countries. (4) Conclusions: India needs to expand the public healthcare system and enhance the expenditure as per the set goals in NHP-17 and WHO standards. The private healthcare system has not been proved reliable during the emergency. Only the public health system is suitable for the country wherein the population’s substantial size is rural and poor. Full article
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