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COVID aside, how we manage our health needs to change Without action, inequality in health is going to increase exponentially together with global warming and environmental degradation.
Many parts of the world are currently under restrictions to prevent unmanageable strain on hospitals and health care systems. However, experts argue that even without COVID-19 a series of catastrophic events are unavoidable in the long term unless we change our approach to human and environmental health.
In a perspective published in the prestigious journal PLOS Medicine, an international team of leading scientists write that: “Waiting for millions of people, who eat unhealthy food and engage in harmful lifestyles, to end up in out-patient clinics or hospitals with symptoms of chronic diseases is unethical, and financially and environmentally unsustainable.”