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Sustainable Development for the Health-Care Industry: Setting the Stage

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Sustainable Development for the Healthcare Industry

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Health has been a topic of paramount importance and an integral part of fighting for one’s subsistence along with an overlapping with the search for food and shelter, and interestingly it has progressively superseded wealth as a topic of interest. Evidence to that is the Google Ngram chart of the number of books addressing health versus wealth as a core topic; one can only notice that since the 1800s, health-focused books have always outnumbered those related to wealth by anywhere between 10 and 20 % up until the 1920s. From the beginning of the twentieth century, the number of books focused on health skyrocketed (with an acceleration since the 1970s) and the lead of health over wealth as a literature topic is now close to fivefold as expressed in total number of books.

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    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=health%2C+wealth&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Chealth%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cwealth%3B%2Cc0. Accessed 6 July 2014.

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    http://www.ifpma.org/about-ifpma/welcome.html. Accessed 6 July 2014.

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    IFPMA Facts and Figures 2012.

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    http://www.ifpma.org/fileadmin/content/Publication/2012/IFPMA_CorpBrochureWEBVERSION.pdf. Accessed 6 July 2014.

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    http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/ProductRegulation/SummaryofNDAApprovalsReceipts1938tothepresent/default.htm. Accessed 6 July 2014.

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    Scrip Research and Pharmaprojects 2013 Citeline.

  7. 7.

    http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SHA#. Accessed 6 July 2014.

  8. 8.

    Euro Health Consumer Index Report 2009.

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    Analysis of data from WHO, The Commonwealth Fund, Frontier Centre.

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    https://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/561a0856-b834-11e3-a614-22000a9780da-original.jpeg. Accessed 1 June 2014.

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    Economist Intelligence Unit Survey, July 2012.

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    http://mashable.com/2013/12/21/technology-age-comic/. Accessed 1 June 2014.

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    Online searches at PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed. Accessed 1 June 2014.

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    http://www.scripintelligence.com/home/ACC-PREVIEW-What-drug-trials-will-be-hot-in-Washington-DC-350858. Accessed 19 July 2014.

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    http://www.scripintelligence.com/home/Healthcare-2030-facing-up-to-a-pharma-future-346693. Accessed 17 July 2014.

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    http://brainfoodtv.com/personalized-medicine-who-needs-it-and-what-for/#.U8qQ6LHmcSQ. Accessed 15 July 2014.

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    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/business/sanofi-halves-price-of-drug-after-sloan-kettering-balks-at-paying-it.html?_r=0. Accessed 15 Aug 2014.

  18. 18.

    http://www.cancerletter.com/articles/20130628_2. Accessed 15 Aug 2014.

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    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/upshot/is-a-1000-pill-really-too-much.html?abt=0002&abg=0. Accessed 15 Aug 2014.

  20. 20.

    http://www.webmd.com/hepatitis/news/20140714/high-cost-hepatitis-c-drug-sovaldi-investigated. Accessed 15 Aug 2014.

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    http://www.techtimes.com/articles/12045/20140805/sovaldi-hepatitis-c-drug-at-84–000-per-treatment-course-sparks-healthcare-concerns.htm. Accessed 15 Aug 2014.

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    EPA to evaluate 134 chemicals for endocrine disruption http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/11/17/epa-to-evaluate-134-chemicals-for-endocrine-disruption/. Accessed 10 Nov 2013.

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    Pfizer discusses its strategic plant restructuring & energy master plan. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/04/11/pfizer-discusses-its-strategic-plant-restructuring-energy-master-plan/. Accessed 10 Nov 2013.

  24. 24.

    Implementing the pharmaceutical industry principles for responsible supply chain management, pharmaceutical supply chain initiative. http://www.pharmaceuticalsupplychain.org/downloads/psci_guidance.pdf.

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    Strategy for UK life sciences-one year on, Project Director: Dr Sarah Garner. http://casmi.org.uk/adaptive-licensing/ (2012). Accessed 23 Mar 2014.

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    http://www.theprostatenet.org/aboutUs.html. Accessed 15 Aug 2014.

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    GlaxoSmithKline aims to collect 100,000 inhalers. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/10/25/glaxosmithkline-aims-to-collect-100000-inhalers/. Accessed 10 Nov 2013.

  28. 28.

    Johnson & Johnson expands green product range. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/02/johnson-johnson-expands-green-product-range/. Accessed 10 Nov 2013.

  29. 29.

    Working toward transformational health partnerships in low and middle income countries, BSR; 2012.

  30. 30.

    Gearing Up: From corporate responsibility to good governance and scalable solutions, http://www.sustainability.com/library/gearing-up?path=gearing-up#.UTYBhYlespo. Accessed 23 Mar 2014.

  31. 31.

    Issue Brief: Progressive alliances, scaling up corporate responsibility to address global challenges http://www.sustainability.com/library/issue-brief-progressive-alliances#.UTYAn4lespo. Accessed 23 Mar 2014.

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    GlaxoSmithKline sets carbon neutrality goal for 2050 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/03/30/glaxosmithkline-sets-carbon-neutrality-goal-for-2050/. Accessed 10 Nov 2013.

  33. 33.

    Energy-efficient measures saves Pfizer $ 2.6M in 2009 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/10/07/energy-efficient-measures-saves-pfizer-2-6m-in-2009/. Accessed 10 Nov 2013.

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    Johnson & Johnson COMPLETES LARGEST SOLAR PANEL ARRay in NJ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/09/22/johnson-johnson-completes-largest-solar-panel-array-in-nj/. Accessed 10 Nov 2014.

  35. 35.

    Novo Nordisk Cuts CO2 Emissions by 32 %, Water Use by 20 % http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/02/08/novo-nordisk-cuts-co2-emissions-by-32-water-use-by-20/. Accessed 10 Nov 2013.

  36. 36.

    Lilly meets energy-efficiency goals ahead of schedule. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/10/23/lilly-meets-energy-efficiency-goals-ahead-of-schedule/. Accessed 10 Nov 2013

  37. 37.

    Pfizer exceeds emissions reduction goals, misses clean energy target. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/10/07/pfizer-exceeds-emissions-reduction-goals-misses-clean-energy-target/. Accessed 10 Nov 2013.

  38. 38.

    Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sanofi-Aventis tops pharmaceutical sustainability report. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/12/15/bristol-myers-squibb-sanofi-aventis-tops-pharmaceutical-sustainability-report/?graph=full&id=1. Accessed 10 Nov 2013

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    https://www.claremontmckenna.edu/roberts-environmental-center/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Pharmaceuticals2012.pdf. Accessed 15 Aug 2014.

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  2. Theradiag, Croissy-Beaubourg, France

    Pierre A. Morgon

  3. Eurocine Vaccines, Solna, Sweden

    Pierre A. Morgon

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Morgon, P. (2015). Sustainable Development for the Health-Care Industry: Setting the Stage. In: Morgon, P. (eds) Sustainable Development for the Healthcare Industry. Perspectives on Sustainable Growth. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12526-8_1

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