It's time to take a sustainable approach to health care in the face of the challenges of the 21st century.

Health challenges in the 21st century have become increasingly complex and global. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the many problems faced by health care systems around the world and sadly, exposed various flaws. With ageing populations, particularly in Canada, as well as unavoidable factors such as globalization and accelerating climate change, it is becoming imperative to implement a new health care approach based on intersectorality and interdisciplinarity. Furthermore, links must be forged between all the stakeholders, i.e. the researchers, the health system and its specialists, the communities and the individuals themselves. It is in this perspective, where everyone concerned must be equally involved in attaining a better quality of life, that the concepts of One Health and sustainable health must be deployed.

Governance in Public Health

Governance refers to the management of horizontal interaction processes between the public and private spheres and social actors, in the broader context of an institutional framework that allows progress on major social goals. The effective application of governance techniques has a positive or negative impact on the health status of the population. The greatest challenge for health governance has been the COVID 19 pandemic. The implementation of government policies through what we now know as health governance is a socio-political process that has matured to the extent that the interaction between the elements provided by the state, civil society with its organizations and the economy based on a common objective: the improvement of the population's health indicators.