title: Using sustainability as a collaboration magnet to encourage multi-sector collaborations for health.
abstract: The World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health (SDH) places great emphasis on the role of multi-sector collaboration in addressing SDH. Despite this emphasis on this need, there is surprisingly little evidence for this to advance health equity goals. One way to encourage more successful multi-sector collaborations is anchoring SDH discourse around 'sustainability', subordinating within it the ethical and empirical importance of 'levelling up'. Sustainability, in contrast to health equity, has recently proved to be an effective collaboration magnet. The recent adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides an opportunity for novel ways of ideationally re-framing SDH discussions through the notion of sustainability. The 2030 Agenda for the SDGs calls for greater policy coherence across sectors to advance on the goals and targets. The expectation is that diverse sectors are more likely and willing to collaborate with each other around the SDGs, the core idea of which is 'sustainability'.
authors.affiliation: 1 School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, AB, Canada.|2 Health Services Management Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.|3 School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Akram
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khayatzadeh-Mahani
authors.affiliation: 3 School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada.|4 Canada Research Chair, Globalization and Health Equity Research Unit, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada.|5 Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Labonté
authors.affiliation: 3 School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Arne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ruckert
authors.affiliation: 6 Centre for Health Equity Training Research and Evaluation (CHETRE), University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.|7 South Western Sydney Local Health District, Liverpool, NSW, Australia.|8 Ingham Institute, Liverpool, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Evelyne
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: de Leeuw
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health / Q000639:trends*; D000069576:Health Equity / Q000639:trends*; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D000070516:Intersectoral Collaboration; D064890:Social Determinants of Health; D000076502:Sustainable Development / Q000639:trends*; D014944:World Health Organization
keywords: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); collaboration magnet; health equity; multi-sector collaboration; sustainability