Shifting global focus towards more comprehensive assessment of threats to human health and survival - The Hindu
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A major new Lancet Commission has listed 17 interlinked catastrophic threats that could shape global health through 2100. Zooming out to take a bird’s eye view of the possible threats, the Commissioners have counted amongst them — pandemics, obesity, antimicrobial resistance, nuclear conflict, and artificial intelligence. Driven by the motive to move away from the intense focus on certain domains, the default mode that health care governance and activism has taken so far, the Commission took upon itself the task of freeing the world from being bogged down with single issues, though the benefits of that have been aplenty, the time had come to go beyond. Launched at the recent World Health Summit in Berlin, the report urges global leaders to stop treating these issues in isolation, and start viewing them as deeply interconnected economic, environmental, and national security challenges.
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