Matthew Bonds

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  Ecology of Poverty, Disease and Health Care Delivery: Lessons for Planetary Health
  Matthew Bonds
  Over the past two decades, the global health agenda has increasingly embraced the concept of sustainable development in pursuit of solutions at the “systems� level. A central challenge is that the relevant social, economic, and biophysical systems that influence human health and wellbeing operate at difference spatial and temporal scales and scopes of problem solving. Here, we explore three interconnected self-reinforcing systems of central importance to planetary health: 1) the ecology of poverty, 2) the ecology of disease, and 3) systems of health care delivery. We frame these issues to inform how practical interventions can be implemented and studied to a) create practical systems-level change at the ground level, and b) establish methods for evaluating that change and produce transferable knowledge for scaling or replication.