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Financial sustainability:
It’s important to take into account that the assessment activities and the overall project control activities will produce direct and indirect advantages, together with the savings and revenue coming from the Virtual Portal, the “Traditional Medicine across Euro-Asian Cultures” on the web.
Particularly, the productivity gains will occur in three areas:
a) direct savings;
b) direct revenue;
c) indirect savings and revenue;
d) social gain.
The Virtual Portal will produce savings in four areas:
1) road/salary savings, which correspond to payroll costs expended on travel time, and depend upon the time spent in travel and the salary of the person travelling;
2) transportation savings. These savings include money that would otherwise be spent on air flights, hotel accommodation, meals, etc.
3) Voice communication savings.
The Virtual Portal will produce direct revenue in two areas:
1) increased patient census, which refers to the revenue generated when the consultation about specific clinical matter on traditional medicine is allowed;
2) increased service capacity, which refers to revenues generated by new or expanded services made possible by a more culture-sensitivity approach.
Additionally, the Virtual Portal, proposed in this project, will produce indirect savings and revenue for patients, third party payers and others (i.e. lower training costs, lower costs for access to scientific information etc.).
Institutional sustainability :
It is necessary to notice that:
- all partners will be involved directly in carrying out the research and in the implementation of the virtual portal;
- all partners have a relevant interest in the subject of the research;
- all partners have a common benefit from maintaining the Thematic Network.
Afterwards, they will be offered the opportunity, after the EC funding ends, to continue the collaboration activities in the long-term to expand and increase the project results.
From the operational point of view, all partners will be actively involved in all the phases of implementation of the project. To achieve the aims of the project, each partner will periodically relate about all the activities carried out and share their results with all the other partners involved. Thus, all data and information produced will freely circulate among the partners and will be made available for the others without any local “ownership”, but as a common property of all partners.
Thus, all the results of the specific research will become the basis to build up a common and cross-cultural knowledge on the traditional medicine of each reference country.
Sustainability at the policy level:
The results of the research, by increasing the levels of knowledge about the ethno- anthropological aspects linked to the individual experiences of illness/symptoms, will produce a relevant impact upon the approaches used in Public Health for the improvement of the quality of population’s life. In particular, the definition of models of research, the production of guidelines, the identification of cultural-sensitive best practices, and so on, will constitute a relevant source of knowledge that decision makers can use for the planning and programming of new and innovative social-health services that will be able to respond in a more effective and efficient way to the population’s health needs.
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The Project