Tag Archives: global health

Maximizing Benefits: A Rights-Based Approach to Health
December 14, 2009

Maximizing Benefits: A Rights-Based Approach to Health

[Editor's note: This is a guest post written by Sarah Mi Ra Dougherty.] In a recent opinion piece in the …Continue Reading

Innovative low-tech health systems save women’s lives
August 26, 2009

Innovative low-tech health systems save women’s lives

A number of non-traditional practices are arising in poor and developing communities to fight high maternal mortality rates. One example …Continue Reading

New reports warn of the human cost to global climate change
July 8, 2009

New reports warn of the human cost to global climate change

Two recent reports emphasize that significant global climate change has already begun, and that it has had “catastrophic” effects on …Continue Reading