Tag Archives: global health

Inside Gaza’s hospitals

January 12, 2009 – 3:16 pm

To get a broader perspective on the problems of the Australian health system, take a moment to read this disturbing account from The Lancet’s Global Health Network.
Hatem Shurrab, an aid worker with Islamic Relief, describes how close Gaza hospitals are to collapsing and being unable to provide even basic services to the injured and wounded.
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Looking beyond the pecs: Obama and global health

January 12, 2009 – 2:35 pm

Now that we’ve finished salivating over the presidential pecs,it’s time to turn to more cerebral issues, like what might Barack Obama’s election mean for global health?
Two European public health experts – Bernd Rechel and Martin McKee from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – ponder this question in an editorial in the British [...]

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