Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Global Health and Public Policy, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Arch Iran Med. 2020 Apr 1;23(4Suppl1):S23-S26. doi: 10.34172/aim.2020.s5.
As two essential human rights, as well as pillars of sustainable development, health and peace are closely interrelated. Further, health and well-being are the focus of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3, while peace lies at the heart of SDG 16. This paper investigates the relationship between the three concepts of health, peace and sustainable development in the relevant literature.
This is a qualitative study. Following the establishment of the construct of peace and health through consultation with three key informants (one health sociologists, one high-ranking diplomat, and one health policy maker), we conducted a scoping review of the literature, followed by purposefully obtained grey literature, i.e. UN and country reports. As a result, 30 documents, including journal articles, were identified. We used content analysis to extract themes and categorize them in line with the relevant SDGs.
Lack of peace has direct and indirect impact on health, as well as health workers, the civil society, and the whole community who have in turn a critical role in creating peace. Strong and resilient health systems are essential in reaching out to citizens during war, while achieving SDGs would be impossible if SDG 16 is compromised. Health and peace are interchangeable, and achieving either is impossible without the other.
Physicians and other human resources for health are the key actors in peaceful environment to attain health for all. In the absence of peace, the resilience of health system will be threatened and the hope for sustainable development may fade.
健康和和平是两项基本人权，也是可持续发展的支柱，它们之间紧密相关。此外，健康和福祉是可持续发展目标 3 的重点，而和平则是可持续发展目标 16 的核心。本文旨在探讨相关文献中健康、和平与可持续发展这三个概念之间的关系。
这是一项定性研究。通过与三位关键知情人（一位健康社会学家、一位高级外交官和一位卫生政策制定者）协商，我们构建了和平与健康的概念框架，随后对文献进行了范围综述，并进一步获取了有针对性的灰色文献，即联合国和国家报告。结果共确定了 30 篇文献，包括期刊文章。我们采用内容分析法提取主题，并按照相关可持续发展目标对其进行分类。
缺乏和平会直接或间接影响健康，也会影响卫生工作者、民间社会和整个社区，而他们在创造和平方面发挥着关键作用。在战争期间，强大和有弹性的卫生系统对于接触公民至关重要，而如果可持续发展目标 16 受到损害，实现其他可持续发展目标将是不可能的。健康和和平是相互关联的，没有对方，任何一方都不可能实现。
医生和其他卫生人力资源是在和平环境中实现全民健康的关键行为者。如果没有和平，卫生系统的弹性将受到威胁，可持续发展的希望可能会破灭。
