Health Promotion Journal of Australia 2007: 18 (2) 87 Editorial

Neo-liberalism promotes market forces and disguises the reality of limits. It thus promotes the cornucopian enchantment. Holders of this view devalue the capacity of aid and slower population growth rates to promote development; they also obstruct the delivery of health promotion. Health promotion commonly focuses on the links around number 1 (mid right). Synergies exist between slower population growth, better health and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (region 2, upper left). This paper draws attention to those feedbacks, and how neo-liberalism has disguised many of these links. The lightning bolts attempt to show how the neo-liberal view operates to impair ideas. Figure 1: head to come Globalisation, population, ecology and conflic