Health in southeast Asia

Abstract

Neglect of human rights that compromises health outcomes, the combination of high population density and domestic livestock that encourages zoonoses, claims over viral sovereignty, and an emphasis on health tourism that creates dual standards of care: too often health in southeast Asia is in the news for the wrong reasons. Today's Lancet reports good news from the region as well as disappointments, and provides opportunities to improve care locally by analysing how a variety of health systems in different settings within the region are responding to rapid socioeconomic change and shifting threats to health.