CHSS Director in Vienna on ‘Achieving Health in Fragmented Systems’
CHSS Director Stephen Peckham addressed an audience of European Public Health specialists in Vienna earlier today. His session, ‘Achieving Health in Fragmented Systems’ examined existing systems and the complex problems and interconnected relationships between public health problems like obesity and cardiovascular disease, and environmental issues such as air quality. Approaches to tackling them are equally complicated demanding a joined up approach.
‘Air pollution kills people, but it doesn’t just kill them from respiratory; it’s linked to cardiovascular problems as well. We have to think about how to tackle things that are connected – and it gets complicated. It’s clearly a complex mix and the path to health is not going to be an easy one’.
Stephen’s presentation was followed by a panel debate around questions arising from the session.
Watch the video here.
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