Health:
the state of being free from illness or injury
Sus·tain·a·bil·i·ty:
the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level
At first glance, the concept of sustainable health appears to be expressed implicitly by a synthesis of the definitions of health and sustainability. However, as humanity evolves, so must many concepts, including the definition of sustainable health.
There are three primary concerns in health sustainability: creating and maintaining sustainable environments for a healthy lifestyle, the ramifications of climate change, and the role of sustainability in health system performance.
Sustainable development requires ensuring healthy lives and encouraging well-being at all ages. The COVID-19 epidemic is still causing human pain. COVID-19 had infected over 500 million people worldwide as of mid-2022, and according to the most recent projections, the global "excess fatalities" directly and indirectly attributed to COVID-19 could have reached 15 million by the end of 2021.
The pandemic has severely interrupted key health services, increased the prevalence of anxiety and despair, lowered global life expectancy, slowed progress toward the abolition of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, and stalled two decades of work to achieve universal health care. Because of these major shifts, both health and sustainability must be redefined, through both education and advocacy, for the application of these topics in the world we face today.
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