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

Chhabi Lal Ranabhat () and Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic
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Chhabi Lal Ranabhat: Department of Health Administration and Promotion, College of Public Health, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 40475, USA

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-11

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.

Keywords: health care; quality; sustainability; price; health care market; additional health care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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