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Delivering healthcare in conflict zones requires resilient systems aligned with sustainable development goals. This review examines emergent models designed to improve population health across conflict-affected regions. Key approaches include deploying telemedicine, mobile health clinics, and community health worker initiatives. The review evaluates crucial intervention areas spanning technology, infrastructure, community engagement, and psychosocial factors. Specific strategies include upgrading electronic health records and mobile health applications, embedding mental health services into general care, and promoting improved water, sanitation, and hygiene alongside sustainable water resource management. Alternative financing mechanisms, notably public-private partnerships, are highlighted to support these initiatives. Effective implementation depends on collaboration among international bodies, local governments, and local communities. Ultimately, continuous monitoring, evaluation, and targeted advocacy remain critical to verify that healthcare interventions achieve tangible sustainable development targets and benefit affected populations in post-conflict environments.
Conflict severely disrupts essential healthcare infrastructure, leaving vulnerable populations without basic medical and psychological services. Connecting emergency and post-conflict health interventions with sustainable development goals ensures long-term recovery rather than temporary relief. Implementing tools like telemedicine, mobile health applications, and improved sanitation frameworks helps stabilise critical care delivery, rebuild institutional capacity, and protect community well-being in the most precarious environments globally.
The review points to opportunities for digital health developers, infrastructure providers, and healthcare operators. Key applications centre on adapted electronic health records, mobile health applications, telemedicine platforms, and sustainable water management solutions tailored for fragile settings. Potential adopters include humanitarian agencies, local governments, and public-private partnerships. Because this is a broad review of existing strategies, the insights represent early-stage conceptual frameworks rather than tested, ready-to-deploy market products.
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This review explores the integration of sustainable development goals (SDGs) into healthcare organizations in conflict zones, with a specific focus on emergent models aimed at improving population health. The primary objective is to examine how innovative approaches such as telemedicine, mobile health clinics, and community health worker initiatives can be aligned with SDG targets, thereby enhancing healthcare outcomes in conflict-affected regions. The review focuses on the important areas of concern which encompasses technology, infrastructure, community engagement, and social/psychological factors. Particularly, strategies of improving existing technologies such as electronic health records and mobile health applications, enhancing health systems and community-based interventions, and integrating of mental health services are highlighted. Other focal points include advancing better water, sanitation and hygienic practices, sustainable water resource management, and other alternative financing mechanisms, such as public-private partnerships. Integrating these strategies are closely linked with the active participation of international, local governments, and affected communities in their effective implementation. This review highlights the need for monitoring and evaluation to assess intervention effectiveness and advocacy efforts to ensure that interventions supported and advocated by the international community are creating successful outcomes towards the SDG goals and improving population health in post conflict settings.
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DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000041535
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