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In its relevancy and importance, the ‘future of health’ seems obvious. At the behest of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world has been shepherded towards an alternative future outside of many previous predictions. With this, health has now become central to the majority of socio-political discussion. Several aspects of health in our current and future generations become imperative towards predicting future healthcare outcomes. These include, but are not limited to: Covid’s impact of our vision of health, how the development of technology may result in a digitised future of health, the importance of mental health in our society, and the health inequalities that plague us, and threaten to continue doing so.
Do you think the persistence of health inequalities over the next 100 years will impact other areas of social justice?
Absolutely. As long as health inequalities exist we will see linked areas of social justice struggling, and many areas of social justice are directly linked to a related health inequality. For example, gender health inequalities have a huge impact in the pursuit of women’s rights/gender equality.
Is it possible that if we focus too much on health inequalities all other inequalities such as gender or race may sky rocket?
Addressing health inequality means addressing inequality. How would race inequality be addressed without addressing the difference in care quality, access to care, medical knowledge/tools and mortality rates faced by ethnic minorities? In solving health inequalities, inequalities such as race and gender are resultingly reduced.