by Medact Staff | Apr 4, 2014 | Reports, Climate & Environment
What does the latest IPCC report mean for human health? Medact has developed its second briefing explaining the health implications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group II report, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation... by Medact Staff | Feb 25, 2014 | Reports, Climate & Environment
Health professionals are not climate scientists. But climate science is of profound importance to health professionals. Global warming is already having a significant negative impact on human health; it threatens to be an overwhelming danger to human health in the... by Medact Staff | Feb 18, 2014 | Reports, Resources, Peace & Security
Medact and the Nuclear Information Service have undertaken a two-year study to investigate research links between British universities and the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), which is responsible for designing and manufacturing the UK’s nuclear weapons. We... by Medact Staff | Nov 30, 2013 | Reports, Peace & Security
This update to the original 2012 report recommends greater parliamentary and public scrutiny of the use of drones, their inclusion in arms limitation treaties, and a stop to further automation in their operations. Download the updated report by Medact Staff | Jun 7, 2013 | Reports, Peace & Security
Twenty-one years ago the national conference of the Medical Campaign against Nuclear Weapons (MCANW) questioned the thinking behind the nuclear arms race. MCANW’s members were particularly concerned that this race was continuing despite positive signs of a... by Medact Staff | Jan 28, 2013 | Reports, Resources, Peace & Security
The nuclear detonations in August 1945 at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (at 16 and 21 Kt equivalent respectively) killed at least 110,000 citizens immediately: an estimated further 130,000 died by the end of 1945. It is possible that somesurvivors of the immediate blast and... by Medact Staff | Dec 31, 2012 | Reports, Peace & Security
(updated 2012) This report provides a case study of the post-conflict rehabilitation of services and development of mental health policy following the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It illustrates common challenges faced in meeting mental health needs in post-conflict... by Medact Staff | Oct 13, 2012 | Reports, Peace & Security
On October 13th 2012, Medact released its report “Drones: the physical and psychological implications of a global theatre of war”. In the past decade, there has been an exponential increase in the proliferation and use of armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles... by Medact Staff | Nov 21, 2011 | Reports, Resources, Human Rights
Preventing Torture: the role of physicians and their professional organisations: principles and practice was originally launched with a Comment piece in the Lancet. The report considers how professional medical bodies can more effectively work towards eliminating... by Medact Staff | Mar 4, 2010 | Reports, Economic Justice, Human Rights
Alarmed by the way ‘choice’ is being used to promote the NHS reforms, Medact wrote a pamphlet which unpicks what is meant by ‘choice’, exposes how the increase in ‘choice’ proposed will increase inequalities, and shows how it is... by Medact Staff | Mar 4, 2010 | Reports, Economic Justice, Human Rights
Medact responded to the government consultation on the NHS White Paper Equity & Excellence: Liberating the NH, arguing that health professionals must be free to concentrate on the best interests of their patients, equality must be a major consideration in overall... by Medact Staff | Mar 4, 2010 | Reports, Economic Justice, Human Rights
In preparation for its response to the 2010 government White Paper Equity & Excellence: liberating the NHS, Medact produced a background document summarising what it considered were the main issues of concern. This background document, written with input from many...