Are Health Economics Making Us Sick?

Are health economics making us sick?

Knowing Which Foods Are Making Us Sick

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Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

Unnatural Causes, a documentary series scheduled for release this fall, will present for the first time on American television an investigation of the sources of our huge and alarming socioeconomic and racial disparities in health. The seven-part, 4-hour documentary series will be available on DVD from California Newsreel (www.newsreel. org) and will be broadcast in the United States by Public ...

What's Out There Making Us Sick?

Throughout the continuum of medical and scientific history, repeated evidence has confirmed that the main etiological determinants of disease are nutritional deficiency, toxicant exposures, genetic predisposition, infectious agents, and psychological dysfunction. Contemporary conventional medicine generally operates within a genetic predestination paradigm, attributing most chronic and degenera...

The Cycle of Policy Making, Management and Economics of Health System

In any society, health systems should meet health needs of the population in various aspects. The health system should also move towards the system’s predetermined goals in order to establish an effective connection between different cycles of the system from policy-making to implementation by considering the fundamentals of economics.