Including Health in Global Frameworks for Development, Wealth, and Climate Change

Including Health in Global Frameworks for Development, Wealth, and Climate Change is the summary of a three-part public webinar convened by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine and its collaborative on Global Environmental Health and Sustainable Development. Presenters and participants discussed the role of health in measuring a country's wealth (going beyond gross domestic product), health scenario communication, and international health goals and indicators. The workshop focused on fostering discussion across academic, government, business, and civil society sectors to make use of existing data and information that can be adapted to track progress of global sustainable development and human health. This report examines frameworks for global development goals and connections to health indicators, the role for health in the context of novel sustainable economic frameworks that go beyond gross domestic product, and scenarios to project climate change impacts. Table of Contents Front Matter 1 Introduction 2 Health in the Context of Processes to Develop Post-2015 Goals and Sustainable Development Goals 3 Health in the Context of Sustainable Economic Frameworks 4 Health in the Context of Global Climate Change Scenarios Appendix A: Webinar Agendas Appendix B: Webinar Speaker Biosketches