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Book SynopsisChanges the argument about inter-sectoral action from health and the health sector to one based on co-benefits a 'Health for All Policies' approach. It calls for the health sector to better direct its impact on the world and improve health as a way to achieve goals beyond health.
Table of Contents1. From Health in All Policies to Health for All Policies: the logic of co-benefits; 2. Finding and understanding co-benefits; 3. Politics and governance for co-benefits; 4. Next steps: making Health for All Policies; 5. SDG1, eliminating poverty: improvements to health coverage design as a means to create co-benefits between health system and poverty Sustainable Development Goals; 6. SDG4, education: education as a lever for sustainable development; 7. SDG5, gender equality: co-benefits and challenges; 8. SDG8, promoting decent work and economic growth: health policies for good jobs; 9. SDG9, industry, innovation and infrastructure: technology and knowledge transfer as means to generate co-benefits between health and industrial Sustainable Development Goals; 10. SDG10, reduced inequalities: the effect of health policy on inequalities: evidence from South Africa; 11. SDG11, sustainable cities and communities: making cities healthy, sustainable, inclusive and resilient through strong health governance; 12. SDG13, climate action: health systems as stakeholders and implementors in climate policy change; 13. SDG17, means of implementation: strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development; Appendix Case study: climate-driven health hazards – natural disasters.
