The health of a nation is directly proportional to the type of health care access it offers. The healthcare access in turn is mainly dependent upon the amount and manner of resource allocation. Read the rest of this entry »
March 11, 2007 • 2:04 am 0
The Polio Controversy
Recently Pakistan’s tribal areas made the headlines again. This time the issue is health care access, or refusal thereof to be more specific. According to a report parents of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow workers to administer polio vaccines. This is blamed mainly on the fatwas (religious edicts) issued by the local clerics claiming that the vaccines are designed to ‘sterilise’ Muslim male children. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: 2. Global, War/Conflict
February 20, 2007 • 3:30 am 0
The Number 654,965
In April of last year, Gilbert H. Burnham and Leslie F. Roberts, A&S ‘92 (PhD), began
finalizing plans for some new epidemiology. There was nothing notable in that; Burnham and Roberts, at the time both researchers at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health, were epidemiologists. What was notable was the subject. They would not be studying the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, or incidence of cholera in Bangladeshi villages. They meant to conduct epidemiological research on the war in Iraq. They would treat the war as a public health catastrophe, and apply epidemiological methods to answer a question essential to an occupying power with the legal obligation to protect the occupied: What had happened to the Iraqi people after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion? Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: 2. Global, War/Conflict
December 25, 2006 • 12:42 am 1
The Aid Debate
According to the Millennium Project "More than one billion people in the world live on less than one dollar a day. In total, 2.7 billion struggle to survive on less than two dollars per day". Read the rest of this entry »
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