Handle with care
John Seddon believes in the importance of good services to the public, particularly in providing care. He has been working with organisations in many sectors to help their leaders understand …
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Cash crops
Henry Leveson-Gower looks at how local food currencies might bear fruit. Our food system is deeply dysfunctional. Economic forces drive it to deliver unhealthy food, while trashing the environment so …
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Living off a box of chocolates
Private equity in the care sector is thriving on growing demand and dwindling state provision. Vivek Kotecha asks whether its sweet tooth for debt might not bode well for its …
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Be careful – running on empty
Investments in care services are core to a human-centred recovery says Valeria Esquivel. The Covid pandemic is a health, social and economic global catastrophe, still unravelling in many parts of …
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Away from the valleys of dearth
Rebecca Annells and Victoria Topham explore how Wales gives the world a guiding light out of diet-related poor health. Crises relating to food waste, poverty and diet-related ill-health are rife. …
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Who knows what’s good for you?
Wendy Adamba works in Kenya to change behaviour to improve health and welfare outcomes. She works closely with communities to understand their perspectives and build trust. She tells The Mint …
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Hearty laughter
Dr Julian Abel tracks the emotional way to good health. England is about to undergo another reorganisation of health and social care by integrating the two. Theoretically, this should make …
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Development community calls for universal vaccine access
Sal (Cabo Verde) – Cabo Verde President José Maria Neves on Thursday joined the development community in calling for urgent universal vaccine access as a way to mitigate the impact …
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As Virus Cases Rise in Europe, an Economic Toll Returns
Europe’s already fragile economic recovery is at risk of being undermined by a fourth wave of coronavirus infections now dousing the continent, as governments impose increasingly stringent health restrictions that could reduce …
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The child poverty rate in the U.S. is down
Inflation schminflation. Amid all the bad news about prices going up—to say nothing of supply chain woes, a still-raging delta variant, and climate change havoc—there’s a ray of economic light. …
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