In recent years, there have been growing calls to 鈥渄ecolonize鈥 the field of global health. Global health traces its roots back to colonial medicine when old empires sought to address tropical diseases which, if not controlled, could be brought by colonizers back home.
While the world focuses on the COVID-19 crisis, climate change continues to advance. The consequences are devastating and becoming more so 鈥 and that includes for the pandemic response itself.
The business of health creation should not be concentrated only in the medical industry, as medical care only contributes to 20 per cent of health creation, says the special advisor to the PM on public health.
At the 40th anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration, having a landmark global health policy document that reinforced health as a fundamental human right and emphasized that gross health inequalities are by no means acceptable. It also prescribed primary health care (PHC) founded on essential health鈥
To provide a foundation for the growing interest and efforts in this field, the Planetary Health Alliance has facilitated the first attempt to create a set of principles for planetary health education that intersect education at all levels, across all scales, and in all regions of the world鈥攊e, a鈥
Today, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide the global community with a new impetus for cooperation and innovation to solve shared pressing challenges. With 13 years remaining for reaching the 17 goals and 169 targets, much more needs to be done, and existing action must鈥
Planetary health, launched in 2015 by The Lancet-Rockefeller Commission, is still undergoing a phase of identity formation, figuring out whether it is a new field, discipline, paradigm, or movement. This is true for all branches of knowledge 鈥 even public health itself underwent similar birthing鈥
