Global Health and Development by Unknown

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Language: eng
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ISBN: 9789811994500
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

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G. G. Liu, X. Qin (eds.)Global Health and Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9450-0_16

Systems Approach to Health and Innovation: Towards a Low-Carbon Economy

Gauden Galea1

(1)World Health Organization, Beijing, China

Gauden Galea

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Gauden Galea, the World Health Organization Representative in China.

This article is based on Gauden Galea’s keynote speech at the PKU Global Health and Development Forum 2021.

In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Regional Committee Meeting decided four key thematic priorities in a policy document called “For the Future”: health security, NCDs and aging, climate change and environmental health, and reducing inequity and reaching the unreached.

Indeed, the member states did prioritize on climate change and environmental health with a focus on all the issues that have been discussed here in the context of a low carbon economy, and put that within a systems approach. This systems approach refers to environmental and human health being part of a complex adaptive systems, but also refers to the systems of healthcare delivery and their impact on the climate and the climate crisis. If one looks at the sustainable development goals (Fig. 1) and looks at them from this perspective, we are concerned within the Sustainable Development Goal number three, that aiming for good health and wellbeing. And you relate that to each of the other sustainable development goals. The connection between them, the edges between each of those pairs of nodes in the figure on this slide is a major link with the environment. Either a major contributor to environmental health or a major danger to environmental health. In the context of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the WHO convened many organizations and academics and made a special health argument for climate change. And I will summarize the action components within the “For the Future” framework and within those health arguments.

Fig. 1The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) centred on Goal 3: Global Health and Wellbeing

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