Innovative Health System Transformation for Environmentally Sustainable Communities through Environmental Determinants and Global Health Technologies

Abstract

The combination of increasing global health issues and the growing climatic crisis creates the need to shift the
paradigm to a deeper level of Innovative Health System Transformation. The paper provides a detailed proposal
of how Environmentally Sustainable Communities could be achieved through a strategic combination of the nonmedical aspects of public health, which are called Environmental Determinants and scalable Global Health
Technologies. The status quo of healthcare, which has been resource-intensive and has led to the erosion of
ecological integrity, needs to be redirected towards core re-orientation, to forsake the curative service model,
and revert to preventative, restorative, and community-based anchors. We examine how innovations such as
green procurement, resource-efficient facility management, and smart digital health solutions can make health
systems more resilient in the face of environmental threats and resilient to community building in the proactive
mode. The proposed model is based on three pillars that have close relationships: (1) mapping of key
environmental determinants (e.g., air/water quality, climate risk) that influence health outcomes; (2) the
implementation of specific global health technologies (e.g., remote patient monitoring, environmentally friendly
infrastructure) to improve care accessibility and the carbon footprint of the system; and (3) the creation of robust
policy and governance frameworks to guarantee ecological and financial sustainability in the long run. The paper
provides an important roadmap that policymakers and health leaders, especially those in developing countries,
can use to develop sustainable, affordable, and eco-friendly health systems