Tobacco Control in the UK
Tobacco Control Plan is needed to fight the fight the power of big tobacco The Institute of Health Promotion and Education endorses the need for a new Tobacco Control Plan. Smoking is strongly associated with socioeconomic disadvantage. Unemployed people, those with...
New Secretary General for the WHO
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus has set out 5 main action areas for his period of office: Achieving universal health coverage Strengthening the capacity of national authorities and local communities to detect, prevent and manage health emergencies; Improving the health...
Doctors can act as advocates on health effects of poverty, says BMA
Doctors can act as advocates on health effects of poverty, says BMA “Doctors are quite right to express concern about the negative effect that inequality can have on physical and mental health, and life expectancy.(1) There is now a vast body of literature on...