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  • Surgical volunteerism or voluntourism – are we doing more harm than good?
    The significant rise in the number of international health electives undertaken by medical students and doctors in the US, Canada and UK reflects acknowledgement of the inter-connected nature of these challenges to health systems and the drive to help solve them. However, the next generation of international volunteers often operate under a conflicting duality: whilst many of their role models…
    June 2017
    Global Health
  • Climate change, human rights, and social justice
    The environmental and health consequences of climate change, which disproportionately affect low-income countries and poor people in high-income countries, profoundly affect human rights and social justice. Environmental consequences include increased temperature, excess precipitation in some areas and droughts in others, extreme weather events, and increased sea level. These consequences…
    November 2015
    Climate Change, Environmental Injustice
  • Disarming the great affordable housing debate
    In an op-ed piece in the New York Times on Wednesday, columnist Thomas Edsall opened with a pair of provocative questions: If its goal is to move up the ladder, where should a poor family live? Should federal dollars go toward affordable housing within high-poverty neighborhoods, or should subsidies be used to move residents of impoverished communities into more upscale—and more resistant—…
    August 2015
    Housing Discrimination, Physical Environment, Systemic Determinants
  • Do low-income neighbourhoods have the least green space? A cross-sectional study of Australia’s most populous cities
    Background: An inequitable distribution of parks and other ‘green spaces’ could exacerbate health inequalities if people on lower incomes, who are already at greater risk of preventable diseases, have poorer access.Methods: The availability of green space within 1 kilometre of a Statistical Area 1 (SA1) was linked to data from the 2011 Australian census for Sydney (n = 4.6 M residents); Melbourne…
    March 2014
    Social/Structural Determinants, Physical Environment, Access, Global Health
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