48^th Global Nursing and Healthcare Congress

Health economics and Nutrition

There is increasing demand to construct sustainable and resilient food systems as global temperatures rise and climate-related catastrophes become more common. It is obvious that how we produce and consume food has ramifications not only for human health, but also for the health of animals and our common environment. This collaborative, multi-sectoral, and trans disciplinary approach is known as 'One Health,' and it attempts to achieve optimal health outcomes while acknowledging the interconnections between humans, animals, plants, soil, and the world. A growing number of people are aligning their own food and lifestyle choices for sustainable living as a strategy to impact change as a result of concern for the planet's future.

Is there a demand for health improvements if health care is only demanded to improve health? Health might be considered a good, if not a basic commodity, that is critical to people's well-being, resulting in a need for improvements. Health shares certain features with more traditional goods: it can be made, it is desired and people are prepared to pay for improvements in it, and it is scarce in comparison to people's desires for it. However, it does not have a one-to-one relationship with the demand for health care since, while health is influenced by health care, it is also influenced by many other factors and impacts all areas of wellbeing, not only health care. As a nice example,