WSSD: HEALTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

For sustainable development to mean anything people must be healthy enough to benefit from it and not have their lives cut off prematurely. Development without health is meaningless. But the processes that are likely to occur in a world undergoing globalisation, climate change, urbanisation, population increase and many other changes, will impact on human health in many complex ways. Some of them will benefit us, others will create new threats to survival and health, while many others will have a complex mixture of threats.