Introduction
The literature in corporate social responsibility (CSR) in several specific sectors is pretty much developed. The literature on medicine and CSR is scarce. The joined term medicine and CSR is vague since it could include:
- (a)
CSR programs of health-care organizations related to medicine
- (b)
CSR programs of health-care organizations not exclusively related to medicine like environmental programs
- (c)
CSR programs of any organization, that are related to health of employees and citizens in general
Thus, it is important to underline that by the term medicine and CSR, the first concept is described, in other words it is about the CSR policies of health-care organizations that are closely related with medicine, and possibly with their core activities.
The dipole of medicine and CSR refers to any healthcare organization that provides either health-related services or products...
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Abbreviations
- CSR:
-
Corporate Social Responsibility
- CSV:
-
Creating Shared Value
- ISO:
-
International Organization for Standardization
- LMIC:
-
Lower Middle-Income Country
- PQ:
-
Patient-Perceived Quality of Care
- SDGs:
-
Sustainable Development Goals
- UHC:
-
Universal Health Coverage
- UN:
-
United Nations
- WHO:
-
World Health Organization
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Panagiotopoulos, I.Φ. (2023). Medicine and CSR. In: Idowu, S., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_862-1
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