In times of crisis, priorities become blindingly clear and deeply held beliefs are rightly questioned. One such belief in our modern society, is that the #economy drives #health. If there was ever an illustration that a healthy society drives the economy, it’s this one. /1

In the short time since COVID-19 arrived, we’ve made dramatic policy shifts and investments in many of the #determinantsofhealth and in the health system. Investing in income, employment & working conditions, social support networks, /2

food security, personal health practices and coping skills in addition to the treatment side. Why? Because where you live, matters to how you and how we, get through this. What you have to eat, matters. Where and how you work, matters. Your physical and mental health, matter. /3

It always has but this time, the threat is felt by those who don’t live with this precarity every day. It brings it all home differently for people who wrote the arguments off as other people’s problems. /4

And so, it took an unprecedented crisis to put population health, #healthequity, and #wellbeing at the centre of our policy decision-making model. Let’s not let this moment be just a moment. /5

Right now, the focus is rightly on getting people safe. But when it’s time to rebuild, we don’t have to build it the same way. We shouldn’t. Rather than the economy at the centre, maybe this time, we try putting health at the centre and see where that takes us. /end