Figure 9
From: Infectious disease emergence and global change: thinking systemically in a shrinking world
Pathways towards a more encouraging future. With new thinking, better leadership, less waste and new technologies, especially to produce clean and abundant energy food prices could stabilize, the rate of climate change would slow and nutrition would improve. In this milieu, progress would continue to be made to deal with existing infectious diseases of poverty, and the risk of emerging diseases with a catastrophic burden of disease would abate. The main global health problems would be of chronic diseases and diseases of ageing.