Sustainability in Healthcare: Perspectives and Reflections Regarding Laboratory Medicine.

Healthcare structures serve to protect and improve public health; however, they can have negative effects on human well-being and the environment. Thus, sustainability is an important target in a rapidly changing healthcare environment. We analyzed the state of the art in research on healthcare and sustainability by exploring literature on different healthcare systems and their relations with the environment.

[Health care organisation and chronic disease. A mobility-based approach].

HIV/AIDS has been considered to be a chronic disease since highly active antiretroviral therapies became available at the end of the 1990s. As a result, people living with HIV now need to adjust their lives to a situation of medical dependence. Accessing and transitioning between health care services, and coordinating multiple recourses between services as well as the patient's own activities, often require an invisible but considerable amount of work for the patient.