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Introduction
Health obsesses people, especially those living in countries
where their inhabitants are the healthiest they have ever been.
Health services exist in all of the countries on earth in one form
or another. They are generally talked of in pretty dour terms,
presumably because they deal in life and death issues. Of course
they may not be having much impact on those things, for the main
reasons that people are so healthy in developed countries is little
to do with their health services, but a lot to do with their wealth
and education. Perhaps because of this the amount of quackery and
good old-fashioned crookery to be found in health services,
continues unabated. Some organisations are doing their best to hold
back the flood of idiocy, notably
Ben Goldacre and
Sense
about Science.
But first, to get us orientated, as Zaphod Beeblebrox said, click
to see the
world meter - birth-ometer, death-ometer. So now you know where
you fit in the order of things. And where do you think you came
from? The University College name profiler will tell
you. And a more depressing
piece of evidence now that the dear Chancellor has explained that we
all have to help the poor bankers overcome the shock of their
reduced bonuses; the global debt, as presented by the Economist -
click here
More on tackling illness and health services
 Click
the links at the right or at the bottom of the page to get advice on
what to do if you are ill, how to do medicine, the reasons for and functions of health
services and how we can measure how good they are.
Then there are supplements on things that interest me, gardening,
music and travel
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