STWR - Share The World's Resources

With progress towards primary health care still slow three decades after the Alma-Ata declaration, an effective alliance of global and country actors is needed to set positive and realistic paths to implement the declaration’s intentions, argues Anthony Seddo.

A densely populated civilisation is not possible to sustain without greatly reducing the waste generation, overcoming the commercial exploitation of urban land, and addressing the grotesque discontinuities we observe in our urban centres today, writes Mahbubur Rahman.

Welcome to Sicko Nation: Swimming in a toxic soup of 100,000 synthetic chemicals--carcinogens, neurotoxins, hormone disruptors, immune suppressors, excitotoxins...

Michael Moore’s film, 'Sicko', dramatically illustrated how problems in access to health care in the United States have escalated to the point of a crisis for all but the richest Americans. 

It’s the deadly calculus of health care in America: Billions of dollars are spent in the name of caring for the sick, yet millions go without the health care they need.

When compared to other developed countries, the U.S. ranks near the bottom on most standard measures of health. Many people assume that this is because the U.S. is more ethnically heterogeneous than the nations at the top of the rankings, such as Japan, Switzerland, and Iceland. 

By the end of the year half of the world's population will be living in cities for the first time in history, the United Nations said in a report released on Tuesday.