{"id":6878,"date":"2017-08-08T20:48:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=6878"},"modified":"2017-08-09T09:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T08:04:45","slug":"who-on-genomics-and-health-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2017\/08\/who-on-genomics-and-health-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO on genomics and health, 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been tweeting annotated snippets from a WHO report I&#8217;m reading. Like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"oceanwp-oembed-wrap clr\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Improving the health of your own citizens before foreigners? Not good! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HOix8gOZOr\">pic.twitter.com\/HOix8gOZOr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Emil O W Kirkegaard (@KirkegaardEmil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KirkegaardEmil\/status\/895006070388772866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Basically, the report does a decent job at summarizing the state of the art in 2002, and has some interesting notes for the future. It also contains a shit ton of socialist politics about reducing inequalities in health, both within and between countries, especially between. Perhaps this is reflection of their &#8216;medical approach&#8217; approach to health (fix problems so that everybody attains healthy status) instead of the &#8216;optimizing approach&#8217; where the goal is to just generally improve health without any particular focus on reducing inequality (might even increase it).<\/p>\n<p>I was asked to upload my annotated copy. Here goes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WHO, <a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/WHO-Genomics-and-World-Health.pdf\"><em>Genomics and World Health<\/em><\/a>, 2002.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been tweeting annotated snippets from a WHO report I&#8217;m reading. Like this: Improving the health of your own citizens before foreigners? Not good! pic.twitter.com\/HOix8gOZOr &mdash; Emil O W Kirkegaard (@KirkegaardEmil) August 8, 2017 Basically, the report does a decent job at summarizing the state of the art in 2002, and has some interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1727,17,1921],"tags":[2065,2565],"class_list":["post-6878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicine","category-politik","category-sociology","tag-inequality","tag-who","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6894,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions\/6894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}