For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Ichiro Kawachi, a physician and epidemiologist at Harvard University about how growing wealth inequality is making us sicker.
For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we are talking with Peru’s Minister of Health Patty Garcia and the need for systemic change in how we seek to improve health around the world. Garcia says health care and the global health community have been successful at targeting specific diseases and, in rich countries, advancing treatments. But what we need now, she says, is a comprehensive system that emphasizes prevention and access for all to basic services.
Cooking over an open fire or with traditional cookstoves are common practices worldwide that some experts say kill millions of people every year, through indoor air pollution, and cause massive environmental impacts from natural resource depletion to climate change. This has led to an international movement to build a better, cleaner cookstove, that some say is as much contributing to the problem as it is trying to solve it.
Landscape architects are using their work to tackle global issues such as sustainability, climate change, mental health, mosquito-borne disease and…
By Amy VanderZanden, special to Humanosphere One of the international community’s primary anti-poverty and pro-equity goals has been to increase…
Editor’s note: David Citrin is a medical anthropologist who has lived and worked in remote western Nepal since 2001. He…
For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking about tribalism – the good, bad and ugly kinds. The word tribalism is often…
A massive cause-of-death study finds that we are living about six years longer than we did in 1990, that child…
Yeah, that’s a provocative headline. No, we’re not talking about some movie thriller like Constant Gardner, in which an evil drug…
This story by Gabe Spitzer, our Humanosphere collaborator and podcast producer, is published at KPLU.org The planet could be much…