GCHL Student Blog

Ellen Linnéa Henricson - Despite ranking highly in international comparisons of health, welfare and well-being, Nordic countries fall short of ensuring effective regulation and viable policy development in the areas of dietary patterns and sustainable development.

Maxine van Ekelenburg - The opportunity to live a healthy life is not dependent on coincidence: the life-expectancy of Dutch citizens with a lower socio-economic position is seven years shorter than that of their counterparts that have enjoyed higher education and earn higher salaries.

Kati Vainionpaa - The principle of equality is elaborated on in the prohibition discrimination clause, article 14 ECHR, which imposes both positive and negative obligations to ensure equal treatment regardless of sex, race and skin colour. [2]  Despite efforts to bring healthcare close to individuals, one particular group of people has continuously failed to receive sufficient attention.

Emma Bowar - Almost famously, the health care system in the United States is broken. Americans spend more on healthcare than other high-income states while doing worse than them with regard to key indicators: they have a lower life expectancy, and the highest rates of hospitalization for preventable causes such as diabetes.[1]

Willemijn Krugers Dagneaux - In Nederrland bestaan er twee legale manieren waarop een vrouw haar zwangerschap kan afbreken: de instrumenele en de medicamenteuze abortus. 

Michael Woldeyes - Ethiopia is building a grand dam on the nile with the aim of 'lifting millions out of poverty.' The construction of this dam started in 2011 and is still going. Egypt and Sudan, which rely highly on the river for water, contest the construction of the dam.

Michael Woldeyes - Ethiopian children are vulnerable to khat and its adverse health effects because of the lack of legislation that regulates the trade of khat to and its use by them. However, the trade of khat by itself has increased their vulnerability to the drug as child labor is used across the khat value chain in the country.

Michael Woldeyes - Research has shown that khat chewing results in adverse health effects. Children are particularly vulnerable to the physical and mental health effects of the drug because there is no legislation that regulates the trade of khat to and its use by them.

Marijn Geuts - We woorden steeds dikker, dat is een onweerlegbaar feit. Mensen met (ernstig) overgewicht houden tijdens de coronapandemie de meeste ziekenhuisbedden bezet. Hoe is het mogelijk dat het aantal mensen met overgewicht en obesitas gestaag blijft toenemen? 

Eirini Koutsoukou - The main point of this article is to describe the ineffectively strict anti-Covid measures of the Greek government and analyse the subsequent human rights limitations.