The global community needs to do more to tackle the inequality crisis

The climate emergency and the global rise in inequalities are putting us all at risk. Both will damage health. The global community, with successive climate change conferences (COPs), is taking faltering steps to tackle the climate emergency but is doing little about the inequality crisis. In some countries, political and economic forces are increasing social and economic inequalities, with potentially dire consequences for health inequalities and for people’s vulnerability to pandemics. Unfair distribution of power, money, and resources are driving inequalities in health.1We’ve been through a good period. Global progress in improving health has been impressive throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries, and health inequalities between countries have diminished. Within countries, too, absolute inequalities in health have lessened, although that picture is more mixed.But this progress is now at risk. If the AIDS and covid-19 pandemics did nothing else, they showed how fragile these health improvements are. These pandemics…
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