1.1 Sustainable Health

Sustainable Health - A call to action

 

Mandatory reading Links to an external site.

Sustainable Health is a multisectoral area for study, research, and practice towards improving health and wellbeing for all, while staying within planetary boundaries. It implies...

    • achieving health and wellbeing for all, regardless of where you live or who you are
    • acknowledging the interlinkages between health and the environment
    • that today’s health gains are not achieved at the cost of future generations
    • being attentitive to the socioeconomic, commercial, and political determinants of health
    • using a multisectoral approach and systems thinking
    • establishing equitable and sustainable collaborations and partnerships
    • ensuring learning is reciprocal 
    • using a needs-based approach with community engagement focusing on those at the greatest risk of being left behind
    • linking research to implementation

 

Additional Reading Material

  1. Agyepong, Irene A et al. (2017). The path to longer and healthier lives for all Africans by 2030: the Lancet Commission on the future of health in sub-Saharan Africa. Lancet (London, England), 390(10114), 2803–2859. (Article Links to an external site.) 
  2. United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. (PDF Links to an external site.) 
  3. Moallemi, Enayat A et al. (2019). Local Agenda 2030 for sustainable development. The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 3, Issue 6, e240 - e241. (Article Links to an external site.)