Five Recent Commentaries on Acts

COMMENTARIES Five Commentaries : Looking to the Future

E quity is at the core of the question posed. Broadly speaking, technology cannot be used effectively or ethically unless it is used widely and equitably among all groups in our society and—thanks to technology itself—our increasingly smaller world. Equity of use is critical to ensuring that technology has widespread and effective impacts on learning, communication, and community. In addition, ...

Politics Matters: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Five commentaries: looking to the future.

Since welfare reform was enacted, caseloads have fallen dramatically, single mothers’ earnings and employment have increased, and the child poverty rate has fallen. These statistics do not tell the whole story, however. As the reauthorization debates unfold in 2002 around child care and the welfare block grant (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF), one of the key criteria for measu...

Politics matters: a response to recent commentaries.

McCoy and Singh rightly comment on how extraordinary it is to need to spell out the political nature, actions and motivations underlying global health policy (1), which articulates where they (and we) are coming from. Yet without such commentators, it would be easy for the global health community today to forget how political and macro-economic decisions in the 1980s and 90s gave oxygen to the ...

Cities and Health: A Response to the Recent Commentaries