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Western Europe’s urge for a ‘healthy’ labour market and the race to the social bottom
Daniëlle de Winter | January 07, 2016Western European states are facing continued budget cuts and restructuring of their health policies. The result is an increasingly informal, decentralized and often more expensive health care provision for those in need of care. As less public bud...
▶Midwives Make a Difference
Frances Ganges | 12 February 2014Midwives play a vital role in development, especially with regard to the Millennium Development Goals.
▶Social protection as a global challenge
Bertil Videt | October 22, 2013With only a quarter of the world’s population having access to social protection, the case for expanding it is gaining ground in international discussions. The debate focuses on how best to design social protection, whether it should be universal...
▶Social policy: is it making a difference?
Arjan de Haan | 12 September 2013How effective are China’s and India’s social policies in making growth more inclusive?
▶Fighting the good fight
Jyotsna Puri | February 10, 2011Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of the most well-respected humanitarian organizations in the world. But it is not resting on its laurels. It is continuing to fight the good fight, speaking out about neglected crises and exposing abusers of t...
▶Special report: Social academia
Janelle Ward | August 04, 2009Within some sections of the academic community there is considerable hesitation to adopt web 2.0 applications for social networking through blogs, wikis, twitter and sites such as Facebook and YouTube. Granted, some academics, including a few prof...
▶Consensus is still missing
Eugenio Villar | May 07, 2009From my perspective the author’s diagnosis is essentially right. There is overall consensus that recent decades have seen an increase in inequities in general and health in particular. Some LDC countries are even showing deteriorating health outco...
▶'Health for all' must be people and community-centred
Barbara Carasso, Dina Balabanova | May 06, 2009The recent change in global health policy and priorities, as heralded in three key reports published recently, revitalizes the PHC paradigm to provide ‘health for all’ and is characterized by a strong focus on equity and people-centred health serv...
▶A truly radically innovative approach to global health
Gorik Ooms, Rachel Hammonds | April 28, 2009Like Barten, Schrecker and Woodward we believe that health is not about health care only, and optimal health care is not the sum of interventions against health problems. Consequently we believe that the current international global health promoti...
▶Support for change is gaining momentum
Sylvie Olifson, | April 22, 2009The Global Forum for Health Research (Global Forum) agrees with the authors' statement that health issues need to be addressed in a comprehensive way, tackling social determinants of health, for which an intersectoral approach is essential.
▶Donors must develop resources equitably and commit long-term
Carel IJsselmuiden | April 16, 2009Arnold Toynbee observed in 1931 that "The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare [hea...
▶From Alma Ata to Almaty
Françoise Barten, Ted Schrecker, David Woodward | January 30, 2009The global health policy landscape has changed considerably over the past decade. There is more money available to allocate to health initiatives than ever before, a large percentage of which has come from private funds and public private partners...
▶Special report: Health for all
Françoise Barten, Ted Schrecker, David Woodward | January 30, 2009Based on the insights of the three recent publications – the Commission on Social Determinants of Health report, the World Health Report 2008 and Global Health Watch 2 – this special report analyzes the current situation and points to approaches t...
▶Editorial: Man-made health
Frans Bieckmann | January 30, 2009‘Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness and their risk of premature death’. So begins a recent report by the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Determinant...
▶Small is beautiful?
Ineke Malsch | February 04, 2008Nanotechnology promises revolutionary solutions for all kinds of problems. At this early stage it is possible to outline the applications of nanotech that could contribute to development and poverty reduction, and the dilemmas that might emerge. W...
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