The Language of Regulators
That government plays a significant role regulating and financing healthcare is no secret. This can, at times, create tensions between regulators and doctors, such as when both groups define the...
View ArticleTruth and Reconciliation
On a recent visit, the UN’s special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya, said that while Canada is among the most developed countries in the world, the living conditions of its...
View ArticlePrescribing Parks
“The walking is good…to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active” -Mark Twain Written more than 100 years ago, by a man with no institutional medical training, these words could be the...
View ArticleLost Miracles
Editors note on our Health & Development series: The correlation between access to first-rate healthcare and least developed countries is striking. That correlation is more than superficial....
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Urban Hunger
Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on the Chicago Council’s Food For Thought blog. Today more people worldwide live in urban areas than in rural ones – an increasing trend which has a...
View ArticleFood Access for New York City’s Poorest: Farmer’s Market
The South Bronx is part of one of the poorest congressional districts in the entire United States. Ninety percent of Bronx County is non-white, and thirty percent of the residents living in this...
View ArticleThe Value of Green Building Certifications
The past decade has seen a considerable increase of environmental building certifications across the world, with assessment methods like BREEAM becoming increasingly popular not only in the UK, but on...
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70 Chemicals and Growing
Mankind has found and developed over 100 million unique chemical substances and the rate of discovery is rapidly increasing, but without a corresponding increase in knowledge of their environmental...
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