Are war and public health compatible?

War on Iraq: the public health perspective.

The extent to which public health practitioners and researchers focus on health risks seems to be incongruous with the extent to which they pay attention to war and its atrocities on ordinary citizens throughout the world. Let us examine the war against Iraq waged by the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies. What are the health consequences for the citizens of Iraq, Israel, Pales...

Informed consent and public health: are they compatible when it comes to vaccines?

How Compatible are Public Choice and Austrian Political Economy?

Public Choice relies heavily on equilibrium analysis in its models of government failure. Austrians are suspicious of equilibrium analysis owing to its reliance on some variant of the perfect-knowledge assumption. To what extent then can Austrians consistently embrace public-choice descriptions of government failure? This paper argues that to maintain methodological consistency Public Choice sh...

The War on Drugs: Methamphetamine, Public Health, and Crime.

In mid-1995, a government effort to reduce the supply of methamphetamine precursors successfully disrupted the methamphetamine market and interrupted a trajectory of increasing usage. The price of methamphetamine tripled and purity declined from 90 percent to 20 percent. Simultaneously, amphetaminerelated hospital and treatment admissions dropped 50 percent and 35 percent, respectively. Methamp...

What are the responsibilities of Public Health Nutritionists in the context of war?

Recently I was sent an email with a link to a petition put together by staff and graduate students of Cornell University. The email was headed ‘Nutrition and Public Health Scientists against War’. It invited colleagues throughout the world to sign the petition and send it on. When I last checked there were 1261 signatures, which include mine and no doubt those of many readers of this journal. B...