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Happy National Public Health Week❗️❗️❗️

Degrowth and public health: An infectious disease epidemiologist’s musing ⬇️

Though degrowth and public health approaches differ, both share common values. The former proposes a path for transformation intended to halt the destruction of life-supporting systems by infinite economic growth. The latter aims to maximize health and wellbeing while reducing health inequities, using strategies ranging from health protection to health promotion.

In various jurisdictions, public health is legally mandated to act when population health is threatened. Some jurisdictions have also adopted a “Health in all Policies” approach.

Though public health has leadership for climate change and health adaptation planning, decisions and efforts on mitigation strategies are often left to the economic and environment sectors; several tools such as health impact assessments, healthy public policy development, and socio-economic determinants of health frameworks, are often ignored.

We must utilize a critical public health lens, theoretical analysis and empirical evidence to discuss barriers and facilitators to achieving synergy between public health and a degrowth perspective.

Public health has an ethical and legal duty to lead debates around sustainable living, and to unequivocally use its leverage to support degrowth ideas.

As long as public health networks are embedded in corporate-welfare bodies, it may be difficult to fully support social transformation towards degrowth to the extent required from one of the biggest challenges of our time.

Degrowth means embracing sufficiency for all, rather than excess for a few, and culturally, it means imagining a good life beyond consumerism.

This can be hard for people conditioned to living in a wealthy society.

For a degrowth movement to emerge, we need new myths, new stories, new hopes and dreams, and new conceptions of prosperity.

Only then can a new and equitable system emerge.

❤️Dr. Ryan Paul

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