Article publicat pel Professor Navarro a la revista nord-americana CounterPunch, 10 de març de 2016.
El Professor Navarro explica en aquest article la proposta de canvi en el sistema sanitari realitzada pel candidat socialista Bernie Sanders.
Letter to the Editor, The American Prospect
Ezra Klein’s article “Wealth-Care Reform” (June 09) puts forward some positions that need to be questioned. Citing Michael McGinnis’s article in Health Affairs, Klein concludes that genetic predisposition accounts for 30% of a person’s health; social circumstances, 15%; environmental exposures, 5%; behavioral patterns, 40%; and shortfalls in medical care, 10%. In summary, if the genes you inherit from your parents are good, and if you eat properly, drink in moderation, do physical exercise, and do all the other things that health behavorists tell you to do, you are already in control of 70% of your health and longevity. The type of work you do, the type of place where you live, and the income you earn – among other economic and social circumstances – and the medical care you receive (or don’t receive) account for the remaining 30%. Continueu llegint »
Published by Global Health Promotion, March 2009
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Original article by Antonio Daponte Codina, Julia Bolívar Muñoz, Silvia Toro Cárdena, Ricardo Ocaña Riola, Joan Benach Rovira and Vicente Navarro López
Published in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2008
Published in Global Social Policy
The work of international agencies such as WHO (as well as other U.N. agencies) is very much determined by the distribution of power in the world. It is well-known that the governments of some countries have more power in today’s world than others. Continueu llegint »
Published in Harvard Health Policy Review. July 2008
The U.S. and European political cultures are very different
I appreciate the invitation from the Harvard Health Policy Review to discuss the relationship between national health care systems and the policy process. Continueu llegint »
