Conclusion: Healthy Development/Developing Health
2016
As Phillips and Verhasselt (1994, 3) remarked in their edited collection, ‘… the health of
populations and individuals is inextricably bound up with development’. The foregoing
chapters have gone a considerable distance towards extending understanding of this
assertion. As the majority of contributors are geographers, it is little surprise that scale
has been an implicit theme: the personal and political have been shown to converge in
the course of examining the health-development nexus at scales ranging from individuals
and their behaviours to trans-national organisations and their policies. It is now quite
literally a global world in terms of health and health care. Not only does the spectre of
epidemics threaten global and personal biosecurity, but also the commercial decisions
of pharmaceutical companies can influence the costs and availability of interventions to
arrest the path of disease. New international trade agreements, as discussed by Lovell and
Rosenberg in Chapter 15, threaten to take some nations into uncharted waters in terms of
being beholden to decisions enacted far from their borders.
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