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The EU appears to influence members countries health departments in
healtn care terms already (for example recent submissions by the UK DoH
that it is attempting to conform to EU guidelines on reduction of mercury/
thimerosal "contamination" of vaccines).
Were the EU to democratically develop a public health department for
the EU populace, ensuring the exclusion of the apparently undue and
potentially unhealthily undemocratic influence the WHO has on certain EU
members countries (1), perhaps we can move towards a truly democratic
representative global health "department" under the UN which strives to
exclude commercial and other vested interests and acts in the best
interests of a global public.
Organisations which are not democratically elected by the people for
the people, which therefore have no legal "duty of care" to that EU or
global public, should be divested of their extraordinary influence and we
should see democratic departments succeed them.
Regards
John H.
1. BMJ 2000;330:1461-1462 (25 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1461
"Threshold for normal blood pressure and serum cholesterol" Editorial,
Westin S and Heath I.
New Euro-Health Department
The EU appears to influence members countries health departments in
healtn care terms already (for example recent submissions by the UK DoH
that it is attempting to conform to EU guidelines on reduction of mercury/
thimerosal "contamination" of vaccines).
Were the EU to democratically develop a public health department for
the EU populace, ensuring the exclusion of the apparently undue and
potentially unhealthily undemocratic influence the WHO has on certain EU
members countries (1), perhaps we can move towards a truly democratic
representative global health "department" under the UN which strives to
exclude commercial and other vested interests and acts in the best
interests of a global public.
Organisations which are not democratically elected by the people for
the people, which therefore have no legal "duty of care" to that EU or
global public, should be divested of their extraordinary influence and we
should see democratic departments succeed them.
Regards
John H.
1. BMJ 2000;330:1461-1462 (25 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1461
"Threshold for normal blood pressure and serum cholesterol" Editorial,
Westin S and Heath I.
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