Rio Conference on Sustainable Development: "Health Should Be Top Priority" - 18 June 2012

RIO DE JANEIRO and LONDON - A call for integrated action on global health, environment and development has been made in an article published by The Lancet medical journal about the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro (the Rio +20 conference). Many policies and activities which degrade the planet also damage human health, according to Professor Sir Andy Haines of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He talks with Peter Goodwin about the positive actions to be made to help both the planet and public health.