Aligning Public Health With a Well-Being Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in Addressing Root Causes of Health Inequities; Comment on “Can a Well-Being Economy Save Us?”

Aligning Public Health With a Well-Being Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in Addressing Root Causes of Health Inequities; Comment on “Can a Well-Being Economy Save Us?”

Labonté offers important critical optimism around the idea of a well-being economy, which is gaining considerable international momentum and offers a much-needed alternative to the current political economic paradigm of neoliberal capitalism and its significant social and ecological consequences. Because of its focus on systems and structures that constitute “root causes” of poor health and health inequities at the population level, a well-being…