Archive: 2013

Ruth C. White Jones & Bartlett (December 2012) ISBN 9780763781538 342 pages $76.95 Global Case Studies in Maternal and Child Health brings into focus the ongoing issues that complicate the field of maternal and child health (MCH). As the author…

Following a nationwide assessment, UNICEF reports that the ongoing conflict in Syria has resulted in pressing health concerns due to the disruption of water and sanitation services and subsequent lack of access to basic hygiene. These conditions pose a…

Brigit Toebes, Mette Hartlev, Aart Hendriks, and Janne R. Herrmann (eds.) Intersentia (April 2012) ISBN 9789800001510 310 pages $97.00 The editors of Health and Human Rights in Europe provide a convincing legal argument and framework for applying human…

A joint 2009 publication by UNICEF and WHO, Diarrhoea: Why children are still dying and what can be done, revives action-oriented discussion about diarrheal disease — one of the world’s direst threats to babies and infants living in unsanitary,…

By FXB Research Associate Carrie Bronsther In December, war photographer and journalist Finbarr O’Reilly delivered a talk at the FXB Center on the “Ethics of Covering Conflict.” O’Reilly, currently a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, discussed his…

By HHR editorial assistant Kathy Wang Agence France Presse and other outlets report that the Chinese Ministry of Health has issued a mandate ordering all hospitals to provide HIV/AIDS patients with proper care. The mandate was issued after a lung cancer…