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A constitutional right to health care

By Guest PostJuly 29, 2013Health, Politicsaccountability, adele cassolab, affordable care act, amy raub, canada, canada foundation, congress, constitutional right, global public health, global recognition, half empty, half full, health care, health protection, innovation, jody heymann, latvia, lipi mishrab, mcgill university, medical care, moral right, senegal, transparency, ucla, united nations, united states, uruguay, us supreme court

UCLA-led study shows that many countries have it, but not the U.S.

Uruguay has it. So does Latvia, and Senegal. In fact, more than half of the world’s countries have some degree of a guaranteed, specific right to public health and medical care for their citizens written into their national constitutions.

The United States is one of 86 countries whose constitutions do not guarantee their citizens any kind of health protection. That’s the finding of a new study from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health that examined the level and scope of constitutional protection of specific rights to public health and medical care, as well as the broad right to health. (more…)

Consumers Willing to Buy Sustainable U.S. Cotton, MU Researchers Find

By Guest PostFebruary 8, 2012Economyapparel, apparel industry, brand, consumer sale, cotton, environmental impact, jung ha brookshire, key, pamela norum, pesticide, sustainable manner, sustainable practice, transparency, united states, university of missouri, us cotton

*Studies show importance of transparency in U.S. apparel production*

COLUMBIA, Mo. – As the interest in environmentally responsible business practices grows globally, researchers are interested in how that interest translates into consumer sales. Researchers from the University of Missouri have found that United States consumers are more willing to buy clothing made from sustainably grown U.S. cotton than apparel produced using conventional practices in an unknown location. Jung Ha-Brookshire, an assistant professor in the textile and apparel management department in the College of Human Environmental Sciences at MU, says transparency is the key. (more…)

Canadian Police Agencies Suppressing Data on Race, Says Criminology Study

By Guest PostFebruary 2, 2012Culture, General, Politicsaboriginal origin, aboriginals, akwasi owusu bempah, blacks, canada, centre for criminology, data on race, diana tyszko, halifax, jurisdiction, law, nipissing, over representation, paul millar, perpetrators, police force, police services, policy, public knowledge, race of victims, race statistics, racial background, racial discrimination, toronto, transparency, ucr, university of toronto, victims

*Data essential for creating fair policies*

While only 20 per cent of Canada’s police forces have an explicit policy against reporting the race of victims and accused persons, criminologists from the University of Toronto and Nipissing show that the majority of police departments do not report race in practice.

The study, by Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Criminology, and Paul Millar, an associate professor at Nipissing University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, is entitled Whitewashing Criminal Justice in Canada: Preventing Research through Data Suppression and appears in the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society. (more…)

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A constitutional right to health care

Consumers Willing to Buy Sustainable U.S. Cotton, MU Researchers Find

Canadian Police Agencies Suppressing Data on Race, Says Criminology Study