WHO Director-General addresses US Department of Health and Human Services

27 September 2013 -- Is health too big to fail? This is the central question addressed in Dr Margaret Chan’s lecture to the US Department of Health and Human Services. She notes some outstanding recent health achievements, but concentrates on forces, in multiple sectors, that have made threats to health more numerous, the causes more ominous, and the burden more onerous. In a world of unprecedented social inequalities, what makes health too big to fail is its commitment to fairness, to a social contract that gives the world its moral compass.
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