Where is Global Health Heading?

The United Nations University Office at the United Nations is organizing a discussion as part of the UNU Worldwide In New York Series entitled "Where is Global Health Heading?" presented by three scholars from the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH). (...)
Threats to sustainable global health include poverty and inequality, rising vulnerability diseases and natural hazards, water and sanitation issues, uncontrolled urbanization, marginalization of rural populations, unsafe living conditions, and lack of health infrastructure. Most importantly, there is a severe lack of human capacity building programs for the health sector critical to achieving reasonable health indicators in developing countries. This can be attributed to policy restrictions, migration of healthcare workers, and constraints in finance, infrastructure and expertise.
At the same time, the environment continues to be an important contributing factor to disease and mortality, where 23% of all deaths globally can be attributed to environmental risk factors like sanitation, disease vectors, accidents and air pollution. Among children, they account for up to 36% of global deaths. On a global scale, the greatest threats to health from environmental change and modifications, which are yet to be realized, have to be those related to climate change. (...)

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