jun 26
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,
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mar 20
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
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» Read more about: Area deprivation and trends in inequalities in self-rated health in Spain, 1987-2001 »
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jul 09
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.
» Read more about: Neoliberalism and its Consequences. The World Health Situation Since Alma Ata »
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jul 09
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.
» Read more about: The Politics of Healthcare Reforms in US Presidential Elections »
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mar 11
A Counterpunch Special Report
Yes, We Can! Can We?
The Next Failure of Health Care Reform
By VINCENT NAVARRO
A major problem–if not the major problem–for many people living in the U.S. is the difficulty of accessing and paying for medical care when they are sick. For this reason, candidates in the presidential primaries of 2008–the Democrats more often than the Republicans–have been recounting stories about the health-related tragedies they have encountered in meetings with ordinary people around the country (an exercise conducted in the U.S.
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