Is the right to health compatible with sustainability?

Abstract

There are fundamental public health challenges and trade–offs that need to be confronted for the achievement of the highest attainable standard of health and the sustainability agendas to be compatible. The trade–offs arise because, at a population level, the highest attain-able standard of health is a standard that is achieved (or progressively realised) through unsustainable levels of consumption.

Keywords

• right to health
• sustainability
• compatability