Archive for the ‘international health’ Category
The Broad Street Pump and the Holy Grail
Posted at 3:29 pm | Filed Under international health
Causation is impossible to prove in empirical studies. Yet Scientists emphasize causality in scientific studies. Only through necessary proofs can things be known to exist in a cause and effect relationship. This claim to knowledge is also evident in epidemiology where necessary causes are looked for. This bias has resulted in difficultly in finding good [...]
Racism and Kidney Disease
Posted at 6:55 am | Filed Under international health
Kidney disease is a common malady across populations. There are many causes of this disease and there seems to be a socio-economic component. In the US kidney disease tends to have a less favorable outcome among those of a lower income. This population tends to be made up of racial and ethnic minorities who are [...]
Inequality in Health Care
Posted at 5:06 pm | Filed Under international health
Health cannot and should not be focused on some while ignoring others. Living in a country that plays lip service to equal rights for all often neglects the material needs to many. Nowadays with services being cut and wealth being appropriated by the upper classes health care for the poor has suffered greatly. [...]
Slavery and Prostitution
Posted at 2:05 am | Filed Under international health
What does slavery mean? Oftentimes in this country we think of blacks on a plantation driven by their plantation masters. But slavery means much more than that. Slavery can be children forced to work. Slavery can be women and female children forced into prostitution. Slavery can be immigrants who become an [...]
Slavery and the Global Compact
Posted at 9:46 am | Filed Under international health
Consistency and Congruency
The United Nations Global Compact addresses problems international business’ encounter around the world in large part because of their global reach. Through their voluntary association with the United Nations Global Compact many of these issues can be examined . Important issues addressed in the Global Compact regard labour, the environment, anti-corruption [...]
Two Perspectives on the Future of Disease
Posted at 4:00 pm | Filed Under international health
There are different theories about the state of disease in the world. Some feel that as countries become developed communicable disease will invariably decrease and non-communicable chronic diseases will dominate. This position is taken when referring to the global burden of disease. When thinking about the global burden of disease one is thinking about not [...]
