scholarly journals Vision 2030 and Sustainable Development: State Capacity to Revitalize the Healthcare System in Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 004695802098468
Author(s):  
Redwanur Rahman ◽  
Ameerah Qattan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
State Capacity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Improve Population Health ◽  
Scoping Reviews ◽  
Vision 2030

Vision 2030 is a social and economic strategic program by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) aimed at diversifying the nation’s economy and stimulating numerous changes in its social and economic sectors, including in healthcare. Sustainable Development (SD) 2030 is a global consensual agreement among nation-states to build a sustainable, desirable and progressively interrelated world. The Saudi government highlighted Vision 2030 to improve population health and the world body reiterated that SD 2030 will contribute to “healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.” This article analyzes the state capacity in revitalizing the healthcare system in Saudi Arabia with the context of Vision 2030 and SD 2030. Scoping reviews and thematic data analysis techniques were used as a method of this study. The realization of Vision 2030 is essential for the fulfilment of the SD Goals 2030. The government has realigned its national programs, plans and strategies with global development targets, indicators, and goals to achieve the SD Goals. Achieving SD 2030 is seen as the main component of development for health. Prudent reforms should be taken to accommodate the goals and objectives of Vision 2030 and SD 2030. These measures will help strengthen governance and state capacity so as to ultimately revitalize the Saudi healthcare system and improve population health. Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 encourages the state to play a renewed role in development in light of the UN’s declaration of the “right to development.” While pursuing SD Goals, the state must create the necessary environment for sustaining capacity, need to improve service delivery by building cooperation and coordination among providers and interactions among groups to realize constructive roles and functions in maintaining state affairs, which ultimately enhances state capacity to revitalize healthcare system of Saudi Arabia.

scholarly journals Vision 2030 and Sustainable Development: State Capacity to Revitalize the Healthcare System in Saudi Arabia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Redwan Rahman ◽  
Ameerah Qattan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
State Capacity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
The Government

Abstract Vision 2030 is seen as a contributing factor to diversifying the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s economy and stimulating numerous changes in its social sectors, including in the health sector. Sustainable Development (SD)2030 is a global consensual agreement among nation states to build a sustainable, desirable and progressively interrelated world. Achieving the Sustainable Development 2030 is seen as a main component of development for health. This article explores the state capacity and the role of Vision2030 and Sustainable Development 2030 in the revitalizing the healthcare system in Saudi Arabia. Systematic review and thematic data analysis technique are used as method of this study. The Saudi government highlighted and emphasized Vision 2030 to improve population health and the world body emphasized that Sustainable Development 2030 will contribute to “healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. Saudi Arabia’s Vision2030 encourages the state to play a renewed role in development in the light of the UN’s declaration of the ‘right to development’. In pursuing development, the state must have necessary institutional environment in sustaining capacity, resources and interactions among groups for realizing constructive roles and functions in maintaining state affairs. The government needs to develop a sustainable healthcare system by adding to health human resources, building public-private partnership, and efficient use of resources through stewardship, good governance, accountability, and transparency.

scholarly journals Geographical Distribution and Modeling of the Impact of Women Driving Cars on the Sustainable Development of Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9941
Author(s):  
Najah Al-Garawi ◽  
Ismail Anil
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Impact

Background: This work investigated attitudes and public perception regarding the impact of allowing women to drive on social, environmental, and economic aspects of the sustainable development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The study includes the perspectives of both women and men towards the potential implications of this decree on society in general and women’s well-being in particular. Methods: The methodology consisted of an online survey that was conducted before and after the decree was activated in 2017, where 62,065 individuals participated from thirteen provinces of the KSA. Geographic information systems (GISs) and statistical methods were applied to the obtained datasets to examine the geographical distribution and modeling of the effect of women driving on sustainable development of the KSA. Results: The results show that the attitudes towards allowing women to drive are geographically and statistically diverse. The study revealed that the economic impact of women driving was the highest significance, especially in increasing employment opportunities for women and decreasing household travel expenses for women. Conclusion: Overall, 70.4% of respondents agreed that women driving will positively affect the sustainable development of the KSA in terms of social and economic impact. The study also revealed that geographic location is one of the dominating factors on the attitudes towards the social impact of women driving within 95% confidence interval. Additionally, participants strongly believe (with an agreement rate of 85.1%) that Saudi women driving will improve economic development and the female job market.

scholarly journals Healthcare System Accessibility in the Face of Increasing Privatisation in Saudi Arabia: Lessons From Australia

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Ghthaith Almutairi ◽  
Hilal Al Shamsi
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Administrative Costs ◽  
The Face ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
Do So

BACKGROUND: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is a developing nation with significant resources to improve the nations population health and a planned objective to do so with its Vision 2030 plan. Nonetheless to achieve national strategic goals in health policy and outcomes, the structures and methods necessary to do so must first be elucidated, and outcomes of proposed actions must be appropriately predicted. The primary purpose of this literature review is to compare and critically analyse the structural and policy aspects of the Australian and KSA health systems to offer insights into the potential mechanics of developing further health system accessibility within the KSA. Importantly, this review addresses the issue of accessibility in the context of the recently proposed privatisation of hundreds of services throughout the KSA as a major component of the Vision 2030 plan.METHOD: 43 peer-reviewed articles were identified using the PRISMA approach and systematically analysed to determine the effects of policy changes in the 2030 Vision to the accessibility of healthcare, in particular the effect of privatisation, as observed in other nations such as Australia.FINDINGS & DISCUSSION: the literature review demonstrated that privatisation can, but does not always, lead to productivity and efficiency gains, however privatisation also leads to increasing administrative costs and service cost inflation. Health outcomes or service quality indicators are not significantly affected by privatisation. It is probable that privatising health services will reduce accessibility to health services in some subsets of the population.CONCLUSION: according to the international evidence, the proposed plan to privatise health services in the KSA will probably have a negative effect on the accessibility of health services and downstream improvement in population health outcomes. If inappropriate governance is not implemented, the plan to privatise services also carries the risk of decreasing access to vulnerable populations and threatens health equity and needs-based health care.

scholarly journals Just Moments: A Letter to Dr Peter Erickson

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 1104-1106
Author(s):  
Paul E. Terry
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Health System ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Improve Population Health ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Individual Self

Practicing mindfulness is usually characterized as being “in the moment” and is most often associated with an effort to manage individual illness, stress, or well-being. This editorial memorializes my dear friend Pete Erickson who was an exemplar to making every moment count. But more importantly, moments he made with others were “just moments” in service to his community, moments that made others experience their community and their health system as more just places. In defining “just moments,” I cite the paper “Collective Well-being to Improve Population Health Outcomes” where the authors argued that well-being is a function of a group and that domains such as “connectedness” and “contribution” may have as much to do with well-being as does our usual focus on individual self-care practices.

scholarly journals International Rankings of Macro-Social Dynamics

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-266
Author(s):  
Vladimir Petrovich Vasiliev
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
National Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The State ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Social Risks

The implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Lisbon Strategy sets the task of a comprehensive study of the citizens` well-being, determining the state and trends in the level and quality of life not only by traditional methods of social statistics, but also through comprehensive sociological research. This approach has significant advantages since it allows us to generalize the state of social development of a society based on the population`s opinions, to study the emerging social risks that concern the population, to determine the differentiation of countries by indicators of well-being. The foundations of the new approach to the analysis of social processes were laid by the scientific achievements of the 60s of the last century. The dominant paradigm was the economic goals and parameters of statistically measured national income, household income, wages and their differentiation. The environmental risks that threaten the future of civilization were identified and analyzed in the 70s of the XX century. The production contradiction, which raised the question of measuring the quality of life in a new way, was articulated. The economic component (economic growth) was mixed and replaced with the welfare parameter. The sustainable development, including the indicators of well-being, the fight against poverty, and the environment were declared to be the goals of the society. The tasks of monitoring the solution of these problems are solved by sociological research, whose mathematical formalization can become a structural element of economic and mathematical modeling of social processes.

scholarly journals Conditions of providing national security of the state

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-327
Author(s):  
Olha Kubetska ◽  
Tetyana Ostapenko ◽  
Yana Paleshko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
National Security ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Main Components

The article deals with the issue of national security of the state through the allocation and consideration of the basic conditions for its provision. In particular, the authors identified the main components of national security of the country (state security, public security, technogenic security, environmental security, etc.) and identified the priority tasks of the state policy to ensure them. In particular, the main components of the conditions for ensuring public safety (state of orderly public legal relations, in which each person, state body, local self-government bodies and their officials adhere to legal and moral and ethical norms, social norms and rules, fulfill all recommendations, are identified in order to achieve public safety and well-being). The authors have determined the basic list of factors of state policy formation of national security. The components of sustainable development of the state have been identified and characterized. The content of the basic principles that determine the order of state policy making in the fields of national security and defense is explained, namely: accountability is defined as a system of measures by which equilibrium (balance) of authority of the authority and its responsibility is achieved; legality is defined as a kind of foundation of a civilized society, ensuring the equality of all persons before the law; transparency of government is defined as the publication or dissemination of information about a public authority, the principle of activity of public authorities, in which all decisions are open and public. The authors place special emphasis on ensuring the fundamental national interests of Ukraine, which proclaimed: state sovereignty and territorial integrity, democratic constitutional order, preventing interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine; sustainable development of the national economy, transparency of power.

scholarly journals Energetics in agriculture: Cultural pattern as a stumbling block or tailwind

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 129-133
Author(s):  
Rajna Lečić ◽  
Slavka Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Synergistic Effect ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Cultural Pattern ◽  
High Level ◽  
Better Than ◽  
The Eu

Observed in the last decade, Serbia cannot boast a high level of competitiveness, whereby the determined values of the innovation and business sophistication factors indicate that Serbia, in this subindex of competitiveness, noticeably lags behind even the EU countries with the lowest values of this indicator. Holding the attitude that sustainable development is a synergistic effect and a common denominator of energetics, agriculture and ecology, and the state of resources related to energetics and agriculture in Serbia is noticeably better than their effectiveness, culture will be introduced into the development equation, whereby the reasons for this situation will be seen through the prism of the prevailing cultural pattern of Serbia. Competitiveness, as a key assumption for improving the well-being of any country and considering the way of its improvement, is the main goal of this work.

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