A recent blog from the RAND corporation entitled “Who killed Mrs. X” cites Sir Alexander Fleming’s warning about the dangers of penicillin resistance when antibiotics […]
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Tags: World Health Organization
Health Issues on a Global Scale: The UN Millennium Development Goals
While we cannot doubt for a minute that the USA has serious healthcare access issues, we can have some confidence in the outcomes once access is achieved. The situation facing most of the world’s population is different. Way, way too many people have no access to any healthcare and much less faith in its positive outcomes. The reasons are poverty, lack of education, political corruption, and a woeful infrastructure.
Read More…Will the Human Rights Council of the United Nations Address Children’s Health Needs?
Currently, the 22nd regular session of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations is in session in Geneva (February 25 – March 22, 2013). A full day meeting on The Rights of the Child will occur on March 7, on “The right of the child to the highest attainable standard of health.” The universal right to health is recognized by the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Read More…Facing Obesity as a Global Epidemic
A recent publication by Flórez, et al, in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) points out the influence of migration to the US […]
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