Health in Colombia: a system in crisis

PC Webster - 2012 - Can Med Assoc
Even President Jose Manuel Santos Calderón admitted as much in a 2011 declaration in
which he noted the mixedmarket model needed reform to ensure the “basic principle which …

Lesotho's controversial public–private partnership project

PC Webster - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Those are criticisms that Lucy Mapota, the Queen Elizabeth’s superintendent, freely accepts.
The old hospital is a relic that was originally slated for closure when the Queen Mamahota …

[HTML][HTML] Sweden's health data goldmine

PC Webster - 2014 - Can Med Assoc
It took 5001 pairs of twins to per-suade a rheumatology researcher at the Karolinska Institute
in Stockholm, Sweden, that smoking helps to cause arthritis. To reach that finding, Per-…

Medically induced opioid addiction reaching alarming levels

PC Webster - 2012 - Can Med Assoc
While American legislators contemplate criminalizing sex-selective abortion, experts say the
experience of other nations which have tried to impose such a prohibition indicates that it is …

[HTML][HTML] CIHR cutting MD/PhD training program

PC Webster - 2015 - Can Med Assoc
Repudiating advice from two expert advisory panels, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
(CIHR) is ending its MD/PhD Program, which, for more than three decades, has helped …

Canada's Indigenous suicide crisis

PC Webster - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Speaking at a conference on Indigenous health issues in Toronto in late May, Natan Obed,
leader of the 60 000 Inuit who lay claim to a third of Canada’s vast landmass, reprised his …

Indigenous Canadians confront prescription opioid misuse

PC Webster - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
As a nurse–practitioner working at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in Thunder Bay,
the city that serves as the gateway to Ontario’s northwestern hinterland, Mae Katts thought …

Roots of Iraq's maternal and child health crisis run deep

PC Webster - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Nabil Al-Khalisi’s preoccupation with the plight of Iraq’s health system has personal roots. In
2010, just 1 year after completing his medical training at Baghdad University, he was forced …

Indonesia makes maternal health a national priority

PC Webster - The Lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
decentralisation of the past decade—a development that can be traced to a 1999 law shaped
by austerityminded World Bank and International Monetary Fund advisers following the …

Iraq's growing health crisis

PC Webster - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Officials with UN agencies in Iraq and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies (IFRC) warn that supplies of medicine, food, and fuel have been severely …