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I think that health should be everybody’s business
simply as a result of the pervasive nature of the issues around health
that the world now faces.
We’re seeing a growth both of acute but also, most importantly,
chronic disease issues both in the developed and emerging economies in the world,
and that’s affecting broader society in terms of the choices that people have
in terms of developing their prosperity and their economic wealth.
It’s also affecting businesses around the world
who increasingly need a healthy workforce to prosper.
One of the critical challenges we face around the pervasive nature
of the health challenges in the world is the fact
that there are so many stakeholders now involved.
It’s not just about the health industry, about pharmaceutical companies,
about health systems.
It’s also about other players such as, obviously, the rest of government,
but also areas such as transportation, communication, consumer goods,
and many other players that now engage around the broader health agenda.
So, clearly, that means that we’re going to incentivize
all those players to somehow cooperate and come together
around improving the outcomes in health that’s going to require us
to have some much more focused incentives that make it clearer
both at the individual level and the corporate level
and the broader society level that there are clear goals
and we’re all pointing in the same direction.
Health, fundamentally, equals wealth because a healthy workforce,
a healthy society, is at the underpinning of the ability of societies
to actually move on and create economic progress.
We need healthy children in education to be learning effectively
and progressing their own career opportunities.
We need to have broader healthy environment such that businesses are able
to operate with supply chains and with customers and consumers who are healthy.
So there’s a very strong connection between the stability
that comes from healthy societies and the ability to create economic progress.