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Asian Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences | Volume 8

March 26-27, 2018 | Orlando, USA

World Summit on

Healthcare & Hospital Management

International Conference & Exhibition on

Biologics and Biosimilars

n Recent years, both researchers and practitioners have

paid attention to sustainability issues in health care sector,

but, despite the sensitivity of the topic, a comprehensive

framework is yet missing. The purpose of this study is to

investigate the impact of the lean practices on sustainable

performance and to develop a framework to measure

sustainability in the health care sector in UAE. Moreover,

this study will investigate the relationship between the

lean practices and organization sustainability performance

through the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural

Equation Model (SEM). Also, it will exam the impact of

the organizational innovation climate on the process of

accelerate the relationships between the lean practices and

organization sustainability performance. In addition, the

triple bottom line will be used to measures the sustainability

which is not commonly used before in the literature for this

purpose. The study results are a useful tool for practitioners

who are seeking effective utilization of sustainability

factors and creating a competitive advantage within their

organizations. Furthermore, the implementation of the

sustainability framework will help practitioners being more

alert on what will influence their organizations performance

to lead them for higher sustainable consequences. Finally,

there are some limitations on this study, first, this study is

focus only on the geographic area of UAE.

Second, the study is limited to the health care sector. Third,

the study did not measure the impact of the sustainability on

the organization employee neither the customers.

Assessing the impact of lean practices on sustainable performance of health care systems

Omar Awad AlJaberi

and

Matloub Hussain

Abu Dhabi University, UAE