Health
Development Aid in Five Easy Steps
Every country, rich and poor, should ensure universal coverage of primary health care, including safe childbirth, nutrition, vaccines, malaria control, and clinical services. Each year, nearly nine million children die of conditions that could be prevented or treated, and nearly 400,000 women die because of complications during pregnancy. Almost all of these deaths are in [...]
Which planet is America on (and which Europe)?
The American political commentator Robert Kagan once claimed that ‘Americans are from Mars, Europeans from Venus’. If so, I have just spent a week in the capital of Mars. And, back on Venus, I have watched from afar the debate, if that is the right word, on the reform of the Martian healthcare system. I [...]
Private or Public? – The Future of Health Care Provision
The current debate about Barack Obama’s health care plan is very interesting, also from a European perspective. It doesn’t only highlight how different people’s attitudes to health care provision are but also that in this area many of the fundamentals are changing. Whilst Paul Krugman is happy if the US makes incremental improvements on the [...]
