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Role of Manufacturing Industry for Minimizing the Barriers to Circular Transition in the Health Sector: A Framework

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High-quality healthcare prevents disease and improves the quality of life by utilizing doctors, nurses, drugs, medical support, and other services. The primary goal of the healthcare supply chain is to deliver products on time to satisfy the needs of healthcare service providers. Due to numerous relevant barriers, it is challenging for the health sector to achieve sustainable consumption and production trends in supply chains. The future agendas of the transition to a circular economy include a dual mission of profitability and sustainability. A transition towards a circular economy (CE) represents a shift from a take-make-dispose economy toward a regenerative economy that matches the targets for all the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study aims to define the barriers to circular transition and to highlight the role of manufacturing in minimizing barriers in the health sector. Manufacturing's role in the health sector, particularly at the product development stage, could be one of the long-term solutions to sustainable and circular development. The manufacturing and modern technology roles were highlighted as accomplishments of sustainable development in the circular transition in the conceptual framework that was developed based on overcoming barriers. The conceptual framework was created to make health sector managers, practitioners, and supply chain actors aware of the hurdles to circular economy implementation.

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The Norwegian Program for Capacity Development supported this research through the Higher Education and Research for Development (NORHED II) Project ID 68085 initiative for the project, “Enhancing Lean Practices in Supply Chains: Digitalization,” under the sub-theme of “Politics and Economic Governance.” This project is a collaboration involving ITB (Indonesia), the University of Stavanger (Norway), and the University of Moratuwa (Sri Lanka).

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Alfina, K.N., Ratnayake, R.M.C. (2023). Role of Manufacturing Industry for Minimizing the Barriers to Circular Transition in the Health Sector: A Framework. In: Alfnes, E., Romsdal, A., Strandhagen, J.O., von Cieminski, G., Romero, D. (eds) Advances in Production Management Systems. Production Management Systems for Responsible Manufacturing, Service, and Logistics Futures. APMS 2023. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 690. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43666-6_33

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