Augmenting awareness on sustainability of cross-sectoral cooperation

• Main Authors: Agnė Slapšinskaitė, Kaija Matinheikki-Kokko, Lukas Galkus, Monika Grincaitė, Justina Vaitkevičiūtė, Asta Raskilienė, Alfonsas Vainoras, Arja Liinamo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: JVE International 2021-06-01
• Series: Journal of Complexity in Health Sciences
• Subjects: health promotion; sustainability; cross-sectoral cooperation; health care system; dynamic evolving system
• Online Access: https://www.jvejournals.com/article/22077
• ISSN: 2538-7995; 2538-8002

It is recognized that health care is an evolving complex adaptive system that requires structural, economic, and organizational resources. Further, its sustainability raises many concerns as sustainability in cooperation of health-promotion is frequently demanded but seldom analysed. Bearing in mind how today's challenges of epidemic, climate changes affect health care systems it evidences the difficulty to plan and predict its positive, smooth evolutionary process. Moreover, the fluctuating, unstable economic status in countries also contributes and augment unpredictability of such system. These instabilities can lead to the disintegration or even collapse of a number of health promotion structures operating in each country. In order to minimize the impact of such events as pandemics, or smoothen cooperation process in general, it is expedient to better understand the possible dynamic stabilizing factors. The first necessity here could be an in-depth case study of cross-sectoral cooperation and self-analysis to organize stabilizing feedback chains to help increase the sustainability of health promotion or health systems in general. In all sense, sustainability research is multidisciplinary; i.e., it addresses the real-life problem such as improved cooperation in health promotion as a way of sustainable financing, which request the complex adaptive systems approach application. Multidisciplinary approach enables people from different disciplines work together, each drawing on their disciplinary knowledge, to create something better.