It is late evening and the lineup in the waiting room of the Iyet Maternity Centre in Bandung, Indonesia, begins to swell with pregnant women. Iyet Ratnasih, owner of the …

When Irsan Nasution, a bus driver in the Indonesia capital of Jakarta, fell off a roof and severely injured his back and wrists two years ago, he knew he was …

Arif Hidayat still feels a measure of guilt. As a vendor of cigarettes on an impoverished back street in the Indonesian city of Bogor, Hidayat says he realized most of …

Analysts have warned that Indonesia will not meet its Millennium Development Goal for maternal health. Can the country prove them wrong?

Canada’s e-health disconnect doesn’t stem from a lack of effort. Convinced that electronic connections between patients and clinicians will forge better, cheaper health care, the provincial and federal governments have …

Few indicators have been as lauded, or as reviled, as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Almost from the moment the eight international objectives, complete with 21 targets, were established in …

Van Mag War on War on Drugs Nov 2012

50 years after Canada implemented universal access to health care, Canadian politicians say the survival of the country’s network of government-funded health systems is in jeopardy. Spooked by rapidly increasing …

“My fear is that the government is reverting back to generating Aboriginal health policies without input from Aboriginal researchers,” says Claudette Dumont Smith, executive director of the Native Women’s Association …

Indications of a staggering level of prescription drug abuse by Aboriginal youths have left experts urging a more coordinated approach to the problem: Responses to Health Canada’s national Youth Smoking Survey …