Long-Run Health Matters

Over Long-Run Health Matters

Why do citizens in some areas fall ill from diseases that have long since disappeared in other parts of the world? How does health influence people’s future income, educational attainment or wellbeing? How should international institutions, governments and communities respond to the growing link between globalization and disease? These questions are at the heart of current societal challenges, but their answer requires taking a long-term perspective, as health progress and the inequalities that emerge when this takes place unevenly can be reliably traced back to earlier historical periods. Indeed, a large body of scientific evidence from the humanities and the social and natural sciences shows that past health developments have had a lasting influence on our society. However, most of this academic work is behind paywalls in a few academic journals or lacks the attention it deserves to prevent widespread misinformation on issues that concern us all.

Long-Run Health Matters aims to tackle this problem by bridging the gap between the general audience and leading experts on how long-run health matters for understanding the origins of global health inequality and its societal impact. For this purpose, our portal provides an open-access meeting point in which leading experts summarize their latest work to those interested in the topic, in an accessible way. Ultimately, this material is intended to foster an informed dialogue about pressing health issues with an impact on both historical and current societal challenges.

Learn more about us at: www.lrhmatters.com

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• Hoofdkantoor

  AmsterdamNoord-Holland, Nederland