We are an emerging coalition of health professionals, scholars and health sector and related organisations. Grounded in an ethic of respect and sacred reciprocity with nature, our vision is that Canada and sovereign Indigenous Nations, provinces, territories, and municipalities become a well-being society explicitly committed to improving the well-being of all life while living within planetary boundaries.
Inspired by the WHO’s Geneva Charter for Wellbeing, our agenda for the creation of a Well-being Society includes:
Planetary health: Value, respect and nurture planet earth and its ecosystems.
Societal well-being: Develop healthy public policy for the common good.
A well-being economy: Design an equitable economy that serves human development within planetary and local ecological boundaries.
Societal well-being: Develop healthy public policy for the common good.
A well-being economy: Design an equitable economy that serves human development within planetary and local ecological boundaries.
We also aim to:
Create climate-resilient and sustainable health systems that help both people and the planet.
Promote transformative governance for well-being: Put sustainable and equitable well-being at the heart of government and governance and take steps to enable the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People in new laws that provide guidance for the future health and wellbeing for all people, plants, and animals.
Promote transformative governance for well-being: Put sustainable and equitable well-being at the heart of government and governance and take steps to enable the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People in new laws that provide guidance for the future health and wellbeing for all people, plants, and animals.
The mission of the Coalition is to rally the health sector in support of this vision and these values and to join with other sectors working to create a well-being society. In particular it will work to strengthen the Canadian health sector with respect to planetary health; help develop an ecologically sustainable health system; and create a well-being society. It will do so by focusing on three roles (and see Figure 1 below):
1. Education for professionals, politicians and the public.
2. Promoting research on planetary health and a well-being society.
3. Advocacy and partnership for planetary health and a well-being society and economy.
2. Promoting research on planetary health and a well-being society.
3. Advocacy and partnership for planetary health and a well-being society and economy.
Membership in the Coalition is open to health sector organisations and individuals and others who wish to support the Coalition in its work. The Coalition has five broad categories of members:
- National organisations
- Indigenous organisations or individuals
- Provincial or local organisations
- Academic and research organisations
- Engaged individuals
- Indigenous organisations or individuals
- Provincial or local organisations
- Academic and research organisations
- Engaged individuals
