Health at centre of sustainable development
Last week, many senior policy makers met at the 9th WHO Global Conference ‘Promoting Health in the Sustainable Development Goals: Health for all and all for health’ in Shanghai to discuss how health is central to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. It provided guidance on how health promotion and the development of healthy populations, communities and environments can be
integrated into national and international responses to the international goals.
Conclusions are presented in the ‘Shanghai Declaration’.