Wellness Week is timed to coincide with high-level U.N. meetings about the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.
Health advocates plan to lobby U.N. officials to pass resolutions that address infrastructure and other underlying causes of non-communicable disease. Boufford says it is not enough to focus on the management of disease through hospitalization or medication.
“All those things are important. But in low-income communities or low-income countries, they are going to be making decision about infrastructure. They are going to be deciding do you build mass transit, do you create situations where people can walk safely or do you create ring roads and flyovers and highways with huge amounts of money you have?"
What it comes down to, she says, is do you make decisions with health in mind?
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