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Paper short abstract:

Health could be conceived as a system driver for policy action in the times of climate change. The development policy needs to harness one health approach in practice to forge eco-social contract and promote sustainable development.

Paper long abstract:

In the light of climate change and aftermath of COVID 19 pandemic, the mutual relationship between health and development is in question. The growth model of economic development, for its aggressive role over nature (and natural resources), has strong association with biodiversity loss and severe impacts on public health safety and security ranging from environmental risks to repeated emergence of infectious diseases. To this end, theoretically it is to contend that intervention in health is an operative means to 'not only' achieve human development as ends for contributing to economic growth. It is the economic reasoning that made the health intervention (both in content and design) to be limited to the organisation of medical care management by encompassing the human body as the primary subject of intervention. The underpinnings of wider determinants of health (such as, social, ecological, technological etcetera) could make health intervention theoretically a viable policy action to directly contribute to the goals of sustainable development. In this regard, a pilot study was done Sundarbans Medicine in the Sundarbans of Bay of Bengal, both in Bangladesh and India, to renew the social contract with an ecological pact. The study experiments the One Health as an approach of system catalyst for promoting sustainable development by ensuring the health of humans, animals, plants and the environment. It concludes that the linkages between human, animal and ecosystems services (such as, water, soil, air and etcetera) are required to map and monitor mutual relationship between health and sustainable development.