“The foundation explained in a press release that technological advances now allow for more data to be collected on the economic, social, and political factors that influence people’s health. The “3-D Commission” — on health determinants, data, and decision-making — partly aims to examine the social and economic levers that influence health outcomes.
Commission chair Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, told Devex there was “a growing sense of frustration” that “housing decisions, transportation decisions, wage decisions, taxation decisions, are not made bearing health in mind. And as a result [the world] has not quite advanced on health achievements as we could.”