Stop talking around projects and talk about solutions: Positioning health within infrastructure policy to achieve the sustainable development goals
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Harris, Patrick John; Riley, Emily; Dawson, Angus; Friel, Sharon; Lawson, Kenny
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Purpose and setting: Infrastructure is a global multi-trillion dollar market presenting many opportunities and risks for sustainable development. This article aims to foster better conceptualisation of the connections and tensions between infrastructure policy and public health in the light of the Sustain-able Development Goals, especially ‘good health and wellbeing’ (number 3) and ‘industry, innovation and infrastructure’ (number 9), based on findings from interviews with a purposive sample of...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Harris, Patrick John | |
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dc.contributor.author | Riley, Emily | |
dc.contributor.author | Dawson, Angus | |
dc.contributor.author | Friel, Sharon | |
dc.contributor.author | Lawson, Kenny | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-16T03:07:37Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0168-8510 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/176998 | |
dc.description.abstract | Purpose and setting: Infrastructure is a global multi-trillion dollar market presenting many opportunities and risks for sustainable development. This article aims to foster better conceptualisation of the connections and tensions between infrastructure policy and public health in the light of the Sustain-able Development Goals, especially ‘good health and wellbeing’ (number 3) and ‘industry, innovation and infrastructure’ (number 9), based on findings from interviews with a purposive sample of senior practicing Australian infrastructure policy makers. Principal findings: We use an institutional framework to explore the ideas, actors, rules and mandates, and procedures underpinning the inclusion of health in infrastructure policy. Informants defined infrastructure as the construction and provision of services that facilitate economic, environmental and social outcomes. The tendency to default to infrastructure as essential for economic success has fundamental challenges for the SDGs, particularly the politically driven pursuit of ‘mega-project’ legacies, sector-specific siloed governance arrangements, and inadequate conceptualisations of costs and benefits. Conclusions: Public health and infrastructure policy are mutually re-enforcing given they both concern the public interest with implications for all 17 SDGs. Positioning health and wellbeing as fundamental societal outcomes from infrastructure decisions would go a long way to helping achieve the SDGs. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was funded by a Sydney University Kickstart Grant, funded by the Balnaves Foundation. Patrick Harris is funded by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowship (APP1090644). | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
dc.rights | © 2018 Elsevier B.V. | |
dc.source | Health Policy | |
dc.title | Stop talking around projects and talk about solutions: Positioning health within infrastructure policy to achieve the sustainable development goals | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | Online | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 111799 - Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u1026210xPUB210 | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | a383154xPUB13483 | |
local.publisher.url | https://www.elsevier.com/en-au | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Harris, Patrick John, University of Sydney | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Riley, Emily, University of Sydney | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Dawson, Angus, University of Sydney | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Friel, Sharon, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Lawson, Kenny, Western Sydney University | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1090644 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.11.013 | |
local.identifier.absseo | 920499 - Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classified | |
dc.date.updated | 2019-12-19T06:38:48Z | |
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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