Call to Action Blocked
Bush Aide Blocked Report, By Christopher Lee and Marc Kaufman , Washington Post Staff Writers, Sunday, July 29, 2007; Page A01
A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration's policy accomplishments, according to current and former public health officials...
...The report described the link between poverty and poor health, urged the U.S. government to help combat widespread diseases as a key aim of its foreign policy, and called on corporations to help improve health conditions in the countries where they operate. The report calls on the administration to consider spending more money on global health improvement, for instance. And it warns that "the environmental conditions that poison our water and contaminate our air are not contained within national boundaries. . . . The use of pesticides is also of concern to health officials, scientists and government leaders around the world."This copy of the unpublished Surgeon General's Call to Action on Global Health is a draft document that its authors expected to update and revise before making public. It is not a final version.
Added on July 29, 2007 by RachelCarson100
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