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  • Drones

    Drones

    Medact published a report in 2012, and an update in 2013, outlining the many reasons why health professionals are deeply concerned about the increasing use of drones. These concerns range […]

  • Drones – 2013 update

    Drones – 2013 update

    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 […]

  • Why Nuclear Weapons remain a very present danger – a briefing for UK health professionals

    Why Nuclear Weapons remain a very present danger – a briefing for UK health professionals

    Medact member Frank Boulton has produced the following report on why nuclear weapons remain a very present danger. This briefing describes the current situation concerning nuclear weapons in a global context and why […]

  • Arms & Conflict

    Arms & Conflict

    War and conflict are major causes of human suffering. They also cause environmental degradation, perpetuate inequalities and undermine democracy. Nuclear bombs and other indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction are incompatible with the public health aims of safety and health protection.

  • The Delusional Thinking Behind a Policy of 'Nuclear Deterrence'

    The Delusional Thinking Behind a Policy of 'Nuclear Deterrence'

    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 […]

  • Blood transfusion services in the wake of the humanitarian and health crisis following multiple detonations of nuclear weapons

    Blood transfusion services in the wake of the humanitarian and health crisis following multiple detonations of nuclear weapons

    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 […]

  • Mental Health Policy in Iraq since 2003

    Mental Health Policy in Iraq since 2003

    (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 […]

  • Drones – the physical and psychological implications of a global theatre of war

    Drones – the physical and psychological implications of a global theatre of war

    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 […]

  • Rehabilitation Under Fire – health care in Iraq 2003-7

    Rehabilitation Under Fire – health care in Iraq 2003-7

    ‘A little understood, unfamiliar war’ – US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, resignation speech, November 8, 2006 Medact’s five earlier Iraq reports presented data on health and health services, and thus […]

  • Britain’s New Nuclear Weapons – illegal, indiscriminate, and catastrophic for health

    Britain’s New Nuclear Weapons – illegal, indiscriminate, and catastrophic for health

    In the foreward to the White Paper on ‘The Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent’  presented to Parliament on December 4th the Prime Minister says he ‘is confident that […]

  • Enduring Effects of War – health in Iraq 2004

    Enduring Effects of War – health in Iraq 2004

    This evidence-based report analyses from a public health perspective the impact on health and health services of the 2003 war on Iraq, and the country’s ensuing political and security crisis. It builds […]