Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Trakya Üniversiteler Birliği VI. Uluslararası Sağlık Bilimleri Kongresi, Edirne, Türkiye, 30 Kasım - 01 Aralık 2023
Aim: Sustainable development is defined as meeting
the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations
to meet their own needs. In order to enhance social well-being and fulfill the
responsibility of preserving our planet, the United Nations General Assembly
adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. The Sustainable
Development Goals consist of 17 objectives and 169 targets, with the aim of
achieving them by the year 2030.
Since the adoption of the
Sustainable Development Goals, various developments have been made towards
achieving these goals. However, according to the United Nations 2023 Global
Sustainable Development Report, the world is not yet on track to reach the 2030
Targets. In fact, the report indicates that there have been various deviations
from the path to achieving these goals compared to four years ago.
Sustainable development
encompasses environmental, economic, socio-demographic, and health factors. The
health factor stands out as a crucial factor that directly influences social
well-being due to factors such as lifestyle, environmental factors, socioeconomic
status, and access to healthcare, which are defined as determinants of health. In
this context, it can be said that health is in intensive interaction with all
the elements that make up sustainable development. In this context, it can be
said that health is in intensive interaction with all the elements that make up
sustainable development.
The aim of this study is
to draw attention to the concept of sustainable development and to examine
scientific studies related to health and sustainable development in our country
in order to present the current situation.
Methods: In order to determine the
theses to be examined within the scope of the study, the Council of Higher
Education (CoHE) National Thesis Center was utilized. A search was conducted in
the database using the term "sustainable development" with the fields
of the "search in, access type, and thesis type" set to
"all". As a result of the search, the 1399 theses were refined by
filtering for the terms related to health that yielded results, such as
"patient(1)", "hospital(5)", “health(16)”,
“healthcare(17)”, “medical(2)”, “pharmaceutical(2)”, “nurse(1)” and
“medical(2)”. This refinement process led to the identification of a total of
36 theses related to the relationship between sustainable development and
health. Descriptive statistics and content analysis were performed on 35 theses
determined as a sample.
Results: According to the analysis
results, it was determined that scientific research at the thesis level related
to the concepts of 'sustainable development' and 'health' increased in Turkey
in and after the year 2020. The research covered 21 different departments, with
the most studies conducted in the departments of economics (5) and health
management (5). It was determined that 30 theses were written in Turkish and 5
theses were written in English. Content analysis of these theses revealed that
each thesis contributed to at least one sustainable development goal.
Specifically, 22 theses were found to be related to the third sustainable
development goal, 'Good Health and Well-being,' and 9 theses were linked to the
twelfth sustainable development goal, 'Responsible Consumption and Production.
Conclusions: It is recommended to work
on targets and sub-goals that are important to show progress, such as the goal
of increasing vaccination coverage, which has shown a decline in the 2023
Global Sustainable Development Report, or climate action, air pollution and
related health effects, which are stated to be no progress. Expanding the
number of English-language publications can broaden the scope of the research's
impact. To maintain and further accelerate the increasing number of theses
published in and after 2020, awareness can be raised among students.
Keywords:
sustainable
development goals, united nations, health, bibliometric analysis