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Digesting the Indigestible
Unravelling hospital food policy and practices, and finding the way towards healthier, tastier and more sustainable hospital food
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A Safer World – Treating Britain’s harmful dependence on nuclear weapons
The world now has an international treaty making it illegal for ratifying states to possess nuclear weapons. Our new report takes this opportunity to re-examine the arguments for and against the UK’s continued adherence to its own nuclear arsenal.
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How to Divest a Health Institution
Two years on from the release of our first report on health and fossil fuel investments, “Unhealthy Investments”, the divestment movement has grown exponentially and health institutions worldwide have made […]
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The Recruitment of Children by the UK Armed Forces – a critique from health professionals
This report considers the long-term impacts of the British military’s recruitment of children under the age of 18, presents evidence linking ‘serious health concerns’ with the policy, and calls for a […]
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Dash for Gas? Background Document for Public Health Assessment of Shale Gas
Behind our shorter report, Shale Gas Production in England – an Updated Public Health Assessment, released in July 2016, is a more detailed and fully referenced set of long notes about […]
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Shale Gas Production in England – an updated public health assessment
Download: A Public Health Assessment of Shale Gas in England Medact’s new report summarises the findings of a public health assessment of unconventional shale gas production in England. In 2015 […]
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Health & Fracking – the impacts and opportunity costs
Executive summary Background: “The United Kingdom (UK) is presently set to expand ‘hydraulic fracturing’ of shale formations (‘fracking’) as a means of extracting unconventional gas. Proponents of fracking have argued […]
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Unhealthy Investments – fossil fuel investment and the health community
In this report Medact and other leading health and climate NGOs argue that the UK health community must phase out its investments in the fossil fuel industry, with air pollution […]
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Global Health Watch 4 – An Alternative World Health Report
The Global Health Watch is perceived widely as the definitive voice for an alternate discourse on health and health care. This 4th edition covers a range of issues that currently […]
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Honest Accounts? The true story of Africa’s billion dollar losses
Honest Accounts? The true story of Africa's billion dollar lossesWatch this video on YouTube The Global South is being drained of resources by the rest of the world and it […]
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Health Impact Assessment and Conflict – a case study to assess the potential health consequences of military action against Iran
Medact has developed a Health Impact Assessment of what the consequences of military action would be for health if armed conflict against Iran by the United States and its allies were […]