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100 Million Driven into Poverty By Healthcare
According to the latest annual report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) this Monday healthcare costs force 100 million people into poverty every year. The report further highlights how around 1,000 million people around the world are deprived...
Haiti Cholera Death Toll Explodes to 1,250
The latest death toll in Haiti’s cholera crisis has risen to 1,250 deaths and nearly 30,000 people have been hospitalized to date, according to the Ministry of Public Health. Haiti is desperately trying to come to terms with the aftermath of the...
Welcome to Devil’s Ireland
Given Ireland’s record of poverty-fuelled emigration it is depressing to discover it profiting from the similar miseries of others. Today it bears the shame of being the European hub of human trafficking between Asians, Africans and young Latvian women. Shockingly...
Over 70 People With Cholera in Haiti
Health authorities in Haiti declared the cholera outbreak a “national security problem” given the deaths of already 583 people. 73 people have been hospitlized in the capital Port-au-Prince. “The deaths have increased throughout the...
Natural Disasters and the Mental Health “Aftershock”
Justin Frewen & Dr. Anna Datta The devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in January this year dominated the world’s headlines for several weeks. The global media were bursting with images of people being dragged from the ruins of Port-au-Prince,...
Industrial Accidents and Global Inequity: The Contrasting Cases of Bhopal and BP Horizon Deepwater
Bhopal India Almost 26 years have passed since the night of December 3rd 1984, when the people of Bhopal (India) were enveloped in a poisonous miasmic cloud of methyl isocyanate, which gushed forth from the Union Carbide chemical plant. An estimated...
The Socio-Economic Realities of Mental Health in Europe – Part 2: The Social Determinants
In the first part of this piece, we considered the significant economic cost implications of mental health problems. In this second part, we look at the importance of identifying and tackling those negative social determinants, which lead to a higher...
The Socio-Economic Realities of Mental Health in Europe – Part 1: The Economic Costs
Justin Frewen & Anna Datta (Dr.) — When discussing mental health, it is common to focus on the distress and suffering mental health problems may cause together with the most appropriate manner by which society might respond. The human rights...
Germany and Spain to return unused swine flu vaccines
Germany and Spain have announced an interest to reduce total swine flu vaccines Share
