BY ERICA KOCHER Downtown Apia, the urban capital of the Independent State of Samoa, complete with a McDonald’s. Source: Jason Argo, Flickr. The Pacific Islands, sometimes known as Oceania, include the regions of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. These three regions encompass tens of thousands of islands, each of which has a distinct culture. Although Oceania … Continue reading A Legacy of Imperialism: Health Disparities in the Pacific
BY NANCY LU A Florida couple passed out in their car with their toddler in January of this year shows the dangers of addiction. Source: CBS News. On January 27, 2017, the image of the Florida couple passed out in their car with a 2-year old toddler in the backseat bore deeply into the hearts … Continue reading An Examination of the Opioid Crisis: Methods of Mitigating Pain
BY MATTHEW PETTUS The United Nations’ flag blows in the wind as we ponder the future of the World Health Organization. Source: Flickr. Dr. Margaret Chan, Hong Kong-Canadian physician and Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), will be leaving her position this June, after a ten-year term. This means that the World Health Assembly … Continue reading A New World Health Organization: The Search for a Director-General
BY EVALINE XIE A large hospital in Xuzhou, one of the largest cities in China's Jiangsu Province. According to a study in 2012 by researchers at Xuzhou Medical College, only 18.4% of community hospitals in Xuzhou had hospice care services offered. Source: Peter Griffin. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, an ancient Roman statesman and Stoic philosopher once … Continue reading Overcoming Challenges to Hospice Care in China
BY CAROLINE TANGOREN Source: Wikimedia Commons. On January 23rd, just two days after the historic Women’s March on Washington demonstrated popular support for women’s rights, President Trump signed an executive order to reinstate the Mexico City Policy, dealing a horrible blow to women’s health globally.1 Broadly speaking, this hot-topic policy prevents any international non-governmental organization … Continue reading Failure to Fund: The Mexico City Policy’s Impact on Global Health
BY LAURA MICHAEL A boy poses in a picture for suicide awareness day. Although raising awareness through days like this are very important, initiatives to counter the societal flaws that lead to high suicide rates and to target subsets of the population, like white middle aged men, that have high suicide rates must be viewed … Continue reading White Male Suicide: The Exception to Privelege
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