Beyond building back better: imagining a future for human and planetary health.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 is disrupting and transforming the world. We argue that transformations catalysed by this pandemic should be used to improve human and planetary health and wellbeing. This paradigm shift requires decision makers and policy makers to go beyond building back better, by nesting the economic domain of sustainable development within social and environmental domains. Drawing on the engage, assess, align, accelerate, and account (E4As) approach to implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we explore the implications of this kind of radical transformative change, focusing particularly on the role of the health sector. We conclude that a recovery and transition from the COVID-19 pandemic that delivers the future humanity wants and needs requires more than a technical unders

SUBMITTER: de Leon EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8600369 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature