Abstract
Abstract This chapter discusses why it is time to re-think how we value and address our health in a complex and interdependent world. As the final pages of this book were being drafted, the COVID-19 pandemic had already claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. At the time of writing, the first wave has receded in some countries and lockdowns begin to ease, livelihoods of whole nations have been left in the balance and economic and societal progress has been halted or even reversed. The dependency of the global economy upon the health of its citizens has been laid bare by COVID-19. The prosperity and happiness of communities and nations has been devastated by illness, and the fragility of society has been clearly revealed. Worse still, the glaring inequalities in lived experiences have translated into shocking differences in survival rates among different communities.
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