Health and climate crises will shape Sunak’s legacy

Will Climate Change Mathematics ( ? )

Health Crises and Cohort Mortality

Two sorts of relationships can exist between trends in a population’s health and trends in the mortality of successive birth cohorts. Firstly, in a period of long-term health improvements, the different cohorts see gradual benefi ts from this progress; but each new cohort benefi ts from it more, since it enjoys it sooner and therefore for a longer part of its life. This results from a general d...

Will Basel II Help Prevent Crises or Worsen Them?

29 2 Two points of view on whether Basel II—a set of guidelines on how much capital banks should hold to guard against current and future risks—adds to boom-bust cycles T he current financial market turmoil—which began in the U.S. subprime mortgage market in summer 2007 and quickly spread to europe—has exposed glaring weaknesses in how financial institutions are supervised and regulated. As a r...

The impact of climate change on mental health (but will mental health be discussed at Copenhagen?).

Climate change will shortly be assuming centre stage when Copenhagen hosts the United Nations Climate Change Conference in early December 2009. In Copenhagen, delegates will discuss the international response to climate change (i.e. the ongoing increase in the Earth's average surface temperature) and the meeting is widely viewed as the most important of its kind ever held (http://en.cop15.dk/)....

Genomic data-sharing: what will be our legacy?

Prior to 1974, the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments, expansive use of the HeLa cells, and other blatant instances of research abuse pervaded the medical research field. Ongoing challenges to informed consent, privacy and data-sharing will influence the stories that research participants today share with future generations. This has significant implications for the advancement of genomic science, a...