Phil E. Benjamin

U.S.

Injury, illness prevention now city policy

July 18, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

On June 17, 2003, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted an historic principle of public health that should be an example for every municipality and for the nation itself. The term they used is “precautionary...

U.S.

Seek national health solutions

July 1, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

At its February meeting the AFL-CIO Executive Council responded to the deepening health care crisis by adopting a statement aimed at making health care a priority in the 2004 elections. “We need to turn the 2004...

U.S.

Health care access movement grows

June 20, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

Every Democratic Party presidential candidate is putting forward his or her ideas for national health care. Each one is calculated to look like a universal, fully accessible health care proposal. But each is also calculated to...

World

World confronting many epidemics

June 12, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

The recently concluded 56th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted the many-faceted ongoing world health crisis. The meeting, with 2,000 participants from 192 member states, dramatized the incredible dangers facing children, people living in...

U.S.

Little Maine: the dragon slayer

June 6, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

When two British publications – The Economist magazine and The Financial Times – pay tribute, of sorts, to the actions of a single state in the USA, you can be sure that history has been made.

U.S.

Money needed to stop SARS

April 3, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

Not far below the media war-hype radar, an international worry is mounting over Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a dangerous respiratory disease.

U.S.

Canadians debate health care

March 28, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

Responding to mass pressures, the government of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien has released a long-awaited 356-page report proposing changes that will make an already good national health program even better.

Labor

AFL-CIO renews health care campaign

March 20, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

After a long silence, the AFL-CIO has weighed in on the campaign for comprehensive health care reform. In their resolution, “Renewing the Drive for Comprehensive Health Care Reform,” the February meeting of the AFL-CIO executive council...

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