Category Archives: WHO

A rather large wrap of recent Croakey articles: public health, health reform, media coverage of health and more

January 11, 2012 – 10:25 am

As previously mentioned, Croakey readers are welcome to sign up for (rather irregular) summaries of posts. If you’d like to join the mailing list, please send your email or leave it below. Here is the latest compilation, covering from 6 October – December 23, 2011. The latest readership figures are now also available, showing that [...]

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The Tax Forum: so much for “health in all policies”

October 7, 2011 – 12:33 pm

How different might the Tax Forum have been if a “health in all policies” framework had been one of its driving forces? The tax system is not only important for specific health issues, with tobacco and alcohol being the obvious examples, but also for how it can help shape the social and economic factors that [...]

By Melissa Sweet | Also posted in alcohol, cancer, dental care, Food, Health inequalities, Hospitals, public health, social determinants of health, surgery, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Global shift in disease patterns requires aid rethink

September 1, 2011 – 12:23 pm

Professor Rob Moodie, Chair of Global Health at the Nossal Institute of Global Health, alerts us to an upcoming UN meeting which could save the lives of millions of people, he writes…. A global pandemic taking the lives of tens of millions of people across the world and costing trillions of dollars each year, has [...]

By Jennifer Doggett | Also posted in cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic diseases, diabetes, global health, prevention | Comments (1)

From world poverty to the other extreme: “disease development”

August 31, 2010 – 1:52 pm

At an important conference in Melbourne this week, NGO workers from around the world are discussing both the progress and the lack of progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. In 2000, world leaders committed to achieving these eight goals by 2015: 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote [...]

By Melissa Sweet | Also posted in child health, environmental health, global health, health & medical marketing, social determinants of health, women's health | Tagged , , , , | Comments (4)

Industry, experts and the pandemic scandal at WHO

June 7, 2010 – 11:51 pm

Will the scandal about undeclared industry ties of experts who advised the World Health Organisation on pandemic influenza claim the scalp of the Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan? Such a question might have seemed far-fetched even just a few months ago, but no less an authority than the editor of the BMJ, Dr Fiona Godlee, has [...]

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