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Related: TESIS GRIS SOCIAL DETERMINANTS HEALTHLa peligrosa epidemia de las enfermedades no infecciosas La mayor crisis de salud global de los países de renta media y baja no son las enfermedades infecciosas como muchos pueden pensar. No son los parásitos exóticos, plagas bacterianas o virus raros tropicales que ocupan las grandes iniciativas de salud internacional y la atención mediática. Son, en realidad, las enfermedades no infecciosas —non communicable diseases (NCD), en inglés—, las afecciones cardiovasculares, las respiratorias crónicas, la diabetes o el cáncer, las que mataron a más de ocho millones de personas antes de los 60 años en los esos países en 2013. La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) incluye entre las NCD una amplia categoría de enfermedades crónicas que, por ellas mismas, no se propagan de persona a persona aunque puedan estar causadas por una bacteria o un virus. En los países desarrollados, la mejora de la esperanza de vida explica, en parte, por qué se han incrementado las enfermedades no infecciosas.
Neighbourhoods The other day I was contacted by a TV production company seeking my help in recruiting children and young people for a documentary programme about their experience of poverty. Obviously contacts like these are now subtly different, post-Benefits street: but in what way? Would another production company dare to treat people who experience exclusion in the way the producers of Benefits street did?
“La austeridad está provocando un severo problema de salud pública” Ya han pasado 35 años desde el día en el que la doctora María José Fernández Sanmamed (Pobra do Caramiñal, A Coruña, 1951) subió por primera vez, recién acabada la especialidad de neumología en el hospital de Bellvitge, las empinadas escaleras de una humilde consulta de atención primaria en Santa Perpètua de Mogoda (Vallès Occidental). Empezaba a ejercer como médico de familia. Entonces, recuerda, sólo pensaba “en cómo harían los pacientes mayores para subir esas escaleras”. La tradición familiar —su padre era médico— la empujó a la profesión, pero fue la vocación “por las personas” lo que la llevó a abanderar el oficio con el que tanto se llena la boca a pesar de haber estudiado otra especialidad: “Médico de cabecera de la gente”.
Ereignis - Martin Heidegger in English @ beyng.com Punktmannigfaltigkeit Welcome to my Heidegger site. It contains information on the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) and links to related web pages in English. Medieval manuscripts blog As the British Library's major exhibition Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy draws to a close — it's been an amazing 5 months — we'd like to take this opportunity to showcase some of the key British Museum loans in the display. The Library and the Museum have a long, shared history and a very close working relationship; and so we were absolutely delighted when the British Museum so kindly agreed to lend us some amazing objects for our exhibition. We're very grateful to our counterparts in the Departments of Coins and Medals, Prehistory and Europe and Prints and Drawing for making this possible.
Is inequality bad for economic growth? - The Washington Post On Wednesday, just as President Obama was giving his big speech on inequality and the economy, the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, released three new papers on this very topic. U.S. one dollar bills are arranged for a photograph in London on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. (Chris Ratcliffe - BLOOMBERG) Perhaps the most interesting paper here is economist Jared Bernstein's exploration (pdf) of whether rising income inequality in the United States is bad for economic growth. His conclusion: There are compelling reasons to believe that inequality can harm growth, but it's surprisingly difficult to prove this is happening.
IMF: Income inequality is terrible for economic growth As the Occupy Wall Street protests swell in size and people pay closer attention to the gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else, one question is why this divide even matters. One way to look at income inequality, after all, is that it’s no big deal. If a country is growing at a healthy clip and everyone is steadily getting richer, then it’s hardly an outrage that a few titans at the very top are doing freakishly well, right? But a recent study from the International Monetary Fund suggests that this conventional view is misguided. Excessive income inequality, the authors find, can actually inflict a lot of harm on a country’s long-term economic prospects. In the IMF’s Finance & Development magazine, the authors, Andrew Berg and Jonathan Ostry, summarize their recent research (see also Josh Harkinson’s piece for Mother Jones).
Free exchange: All men are created unequal INEQUALITY is one of the most controversial attributes of capitalism. Early in the industrial revolution stagnant wages and concentrated wealth led David Ricardo and Karl Marx to question capitalism’s sustainability. Twentieth-century economists lost interest in distributional issues amid the “Great Compression” that followed the second world war.
Finance & Development, September 2011 - Unequal = Indebted Finance & Development, September 2011, Vol. 48, No. 3 Michael Kumhof and Romain Rancière PDF version Higher income inequality in developed countries is associated with higher domestic and foreign indebtedness ECONOMISTS have long worried about the growing chasm between countries that borrow heavily internationally and those that dish out the loans. They call it global current account imbalances and, especially since the onset of the global economic crisis in 2007, there has been concern that global markets could be destabilized were there a run on the currencies of those countries that pile up huge deficits. Finance & Development, September 2011 - Equality and Efficiency Finance & Development, September 2011, Vol. 48, No. 3 Andrew G. Berg and Jonathan D. Ostry
Finance & Development, December 2010 - Leveraging Inequality Finance & Development, December 2010, Vol. 47, No. 4 Michael Kumhof and Romain Rancière PDF version Long periods of unequal incomes spur borrowing from the rich, increasing the risk of major economic crises THE United States experienced two major economic crises over the past 100 years—the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2007. Income inequality may have played a role in the origins of both.