STWR - Share The World's Resources

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.

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. 

One of the most common justifications for consumer-driven medicine is reduced health care costs. The reasoning here is two-fold.

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s. 

The pharmaceutical industry is denying medicines to millions of poor people and undermining its own future because companies are refusing to change the way they do business in developing country markets, according to a new report by international agency Oxfam.

When the global economy settled into the Chicago School of Economics’ visible hands in the early 1980s, the health sector was by no means exempted. The face of health services and health policy was deeply impacted, and over subsequent years would swap the comprehensive Alma Ata ‘health for all’ idealism of 1978 for a narrower focus on the health intervention for small number of diseases.