In this guest post, Dr. Roberto DeVogli discusses the relationship between the policy agenda of Margaret Thatcher and important social determinants of health. A parallel is drawn between Thatcher’s economic reforms and […]
[Originally posted 1.10.12 on UHCforward.com] Across the world, countries at all income levels are aspiring to the goal of universal health coverage (UHC). Hardly a week goes by without a […]
A new report from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) notes that nearly a quarter of the UK population is obese, a figure of expanding waistlines which trails only the […]
In a previous posting, I argued that it is important for everyone to have some understanding of climate science – which is why Medact produced a summary and discussion of the latest UN report about the physical science of climate change. I also questioned the scientific understanding of Owen Paterson, Minister for Environment, Food and…
Owen Paterson is the Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and therefore leads on government policy with regards to global warming. But his reaction to the latest report on […]
Dr Tomasz Pierscionek, co-author of Medact’s Drone report, talks to Carol Anne Grayson.
David McCoy is a public health physician based at Queen Mary University, London. He is also Chair of the Board of Medact. On December 2nd, Panorama – one of the […]
Probably, chemical weapons aren’t at the top of most doctors’ minds in the UK. In the Middle East, where they have been used extensively in recent years and most tragically […]
Last December, Richard Horton, Chief Editor of the Lancet, sent out a set of ten tweets asserting that “economics may be the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the world”. It […]
The tone for the19th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP19 of the UNFCCC) was set by the Philippines’ lead negotiator, as he spoke […]