ReviewBioMed research international2013
Sustainability at the edge of chaos: its limits and possibilities in public health.
Review in BioMed research international, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- One health-sustainability intersections: an umbrella systematic review with a new integrated definition of sustainability and a meta-conceptual framework.One health outlook · 2025Review
- Exploring a One Health approach to sustainability with international One Health and Global Health Security experts - differences, similarities and trade-offs between sectors.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Preventing and developmental factors of sustainability in healthcare organisations from the perspective of decision makers: an exploratory factor analysis.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Sustainability of hospital-based midwife-led antenatal care consultation - a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Health System Resilience: What Are We Talking About? A Scoping Review Mapping Characteristics and Keywords.International journal of health policy and management · 2020Article
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- Experimental realization of a multiscroll chaotic oscillator with optimal maximum Lyapunov exponent.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2014Article
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Abstract
This paper critically reviews the expanding literature on applications of sustainability to healthcare policy and planning. It argues that the concept has been overgeneralized and has become a buzzword masking disparate agendas. It ignores the insights of the newest generation of systems theory on complex systems on the ubiquity of far-from-equilibrium conditions. Yet, a central meaning often ascribed to sustainability is the level continuation of healthcare programs and their institutionalization. Sustainability is only coherent in health care when it is more narrowly delimited to involve public health and treated as only one of several evaluative criteria that informs not only the continuation of programs but more often their expansion or contraction as needs dynamically change.
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