HEALTH

Articles on health from this website

Articles are ordered with the most recent ones first.

From the second Feasta review, November 2004:

Unprecedented growth - But for whose benefit? by Elizabeth Cullen

Average incomes in Ireland have doubled over the last 15 years but far from people being better off as a result, this doubling has been accompanied by a startling deterioration in the nation's health and its societal bonds. This was because of increased inequality, the direct result of government policy.

The freedom to be frugal by Molly Scott Cato

Raising the incomes of the poor in relation to those of the rich would improve the health and life expectancy of the less-well-off. Unfortunately, however, if the poor are enabled to catch up by growing the economy, their gain will be at the planet's cost.

Human economics: Putting human health before profit by Frank Rotering

The current economic system sets out to maximise profits. Suppose we had a system that set out to maximise human well-being instead, measuring it in terms of human health? Such a system was outlined on a Feasta e-list and provoked a lively debate. This is a summary of the proposal that emerged.

Commentary on human economics by Douglas McCulloch

It might not be possible to base a new economics on maximising human health because health is actually quite hard to measure, says a professor of health economics. His verdict? Rotering's 'rather satisfying theoretical construction cannot work.'

EVENTS RELATED TO HEALTH

Irish Doctors' Environmental Association AGM and Public Meeting 2007
Date: Fri 23 Feb (day prior to the England/Ireland rugby match, Croke Park)
Venue: Tailors Hall, Back Lane, Dublin 8 (near Christ Church cathedral)

PROGRAM

1130 -1300
Dr Elizabeth Cullen MB, BCh, MSc, Dip Poll Cntrl: Climate Change & Health in Ireland
Michael McKeon MEd, BNS, RNT, RNID: Mercury in the Health Care Environment
Ms Juliet Duff MA SRN (Canada) & Dr med Peter Ohnsorge, Managing Chairman, European Academy of Environmental Medicine e.V. Wurzburg, Austria: Ecohealth Education

1300 -1415
Lunch

1415 - 1600
Prof Vyvyan Howard MB, ChB, PhD, FRCPath, Centre for Molecular Biosciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine: Health Implications of Nanotechnology
Dr med Gerd Oberfield , University of Salzburg & Public Health Specialist: Electromagnetic Radiation and Public Health
Dr George Carlo, Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, Author & Lawyer
Mobile Phones & Health

1600 - 1615
Break

1615 - 1700
Open Forum

1700 - 1800
AGM