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Health: Health and SustainableDevelopment – Addressing theChallenges Post-Johannesburg
Yasmin von Schirnding
Introduction
Today countries face a myriad of health-related problems relating, on the one hand, to poverty and a lack of access to basic services and resources, and, on the other, to large-scale, rapid industrialization, urbanization, demographic change and technological development. The problems facing the health sector are increasingly complex, multidisciplinary in nature, often ill defined and have uncertain solutions. The emergence of the concept of sustainable development as a guiding principle for policy formulation in health ...
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