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Sustainable Health Care Provision Worldwide: Is There a Necessary Trade-Off between Cost and Quality?

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  • Chhabi Lal Ranabhat

    (Department of Health Administration and Promotion, College of Public Health, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 40475, USA
    Global Center for Research and Development (GCRD), Kathmandu 446088, Nepal)

  • Mihajlo Jakovljevic

    (Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251 St. Petersburg, Russia
    Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University, Tokyo 194-0298, Japan
    Department of Global Health Economics and Policy, University of Kragujevac, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia)

Abstract

Quality health care is an essential human right, on the agenda of sustainable development and presents a challenge in the twenty-first century. There are different perspectives regarding the price and quality of health care, and it is necessary to review the quality health care issue and how it influenced by price. The aim of this study is to explore the different dimensions of health care quality, examine the association with technology, health care market characteristics, additional and optional services of health care, sustainability, and some exceptional situations. We performed the narrative review searching by key words by main search engine Google and followed by their mother publication and or any first web database. We found that health care is a service industry, needs basic standards and specialized human resources to perform the procedure, and quality health care is not associated with an extra price. The quality of health care assures sustainability. Likewise, there are some additional choices during certain procedures, and those may have different price options and would be linked with quality. So, those optional health care and basic health need to define separately.

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  • Chhabi Lal Ranabhat & Mihajlo Jakovljevic, 2023. "Sustainable Health Care Provision Worldwide: Is There a Necessary Trade-Off between Cost and Quality?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(2), pages 1-11, January.
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