Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.
Atul Gawande
Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just... →
Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in... →
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.
Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the... →
The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western... →
At CARE, a leading humanitarian organization, we recognize people live their lives in a holistic manner. Issues such as health care, education and... →
Helene D. Gayle
The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease - it's really linked to... →
The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and... →
There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.