SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTH
SHIP explores how sustainable health can serve as a unifying concept across disciplinary boundaries, grounded in the following definitions:
United Nations Brundtland Commission, 1987
Sustainability means “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
Constitution of the World Health Organization, 1946
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
Wanyenze et al., 2023
“Sustainable health is a multisectoral area for study, research, and practice towards improving health and well-being for all, while staying within the planetary boundaries.”
SHIP’s approach is transdisciplinary:
Transdisciplinary collaboration is an approach that fully integrates theories, methods, and perspectives from multiple disciplines to address complex problems that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries. It is generally characterized by the inclusion of non-academic stakeholders in the process of knowledge production.