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David McCoy on the Lancet-UiO Commission on Global Governance For Health
The Lancet-UiO Commission on Global Governance For Health Commissioners should withdraw their recommendations and come up with better ones. The Lancet Commission on Global Governance for Health – co-organised with […]
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David McCoy on the Lancet Commission
The Lancet-UiO Commission on Global Governance For Health Commissioners should withdraw their recommendations and come up with better ones. The Lancet Commission on Global Governance for Health – co-organised with […]
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Alistair Wardrope: ‘One go-to contrarian economist dissents over key climate impact report…’
The usual news venues have been making the usual noises in the build-up to the official publication of the latest UN IPCC report on the human impacts of climate change […]
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Without tax justice, England's health services will crumble
The budget’s failure to clamp down on tax avoidance – centred on the City of London – starves both our own and overseas health systems of desperately needed cash. While […]
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Dr Aseem Malhotra: Taking action on sugar – applying lessons from the salt reduction programme
The food industry is currently adding growing amounts of sugar to our food. Consumers are largely unaware of this, as the sugar is mostly hidden. Not just in the well-known […]
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Sally Ruane: Our health and their development: overlapping interests?
There cannot have been many occasions on which experts on health and experts on tax have come together to see how these two spheres of interest and expertise impinge upon […]
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Dr David McCoy: Universities must resist the military industrial complex
Last week, Medact wrote to the Vice Chancellors of nearly a hundred British universities. We asked them to review the ethical standards and criteria that are applied to university research […]
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Why the political origins of health inequity haven’t been tamed just yet
Last week saw the release of the much vaunted “Political origins of health inequity” report by the Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health—an analysis of how policies and factors […]
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Dr. Roberto DeVogli: Thatcher’s Trickle-Up Economics Made Us Sick
In this guest post, Dr. Roberto DeVogli discusses the relationship between the policy agenda of Margaret Thatcher and important social determinants of health. A parallel is drawn between Thatcher’s economic reforms and […]
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Robert Yates on Public Financing – The Key to Universal Health Coverage
[Originally posted 1.10.12 on UHCforward.com] Across the world, countries at all income levels are aspiring to the goal of universal health coverage (UHC). Hardly a week goes by without a […]
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Courtney McNamara on Tackling Obesity: Should the UK take Public Health Cues from the US
A new report from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) notes that nearly a quarter of the UK population is obese, a figure of expanding waistlines which trails only the […]