<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Andreas Wulf</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wulf@medico.de">wulf@medico.de</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US"> </span><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="DE"><div class="m_-8699736780918819358WordSection1">
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<b><span style="font-size:20.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#222222" lang="EN">2 years on: when democracy and tectonics collide<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#222222" lang="EN">9th Jun 2017<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#222222" lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></p><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#222222" lang="EN">Duncan Maru and Shiva Raj Mishra</span><br><br><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#6f6f6f" lang="EN">The earthquakes in Nepal killed nearly 9000 people, destroyed over 600 000 homes, displaced more than 1 million people, and destroyed over 1200 public health-care
facilities. Given the technological tools of the 21st century, such destruction is almost entirely the result of poor planning and poor enforcement of building code regulations. A product of economic exclusion and poor governance as much as tectonic misfortune,
Nepal’s unnatural disaster has proved to be the greatest challenge the government has faced since formally declaring itself the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal on May 28, 2008.</span><span style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#222222" lang="EN"><br><br>Those of us involved in global population health should pay close attention to Nepal’s fate. The central theme of this era of globalisation
is the rise of both income inequality and the politics of exclusion. The result is often extremism and conflict that threatens the health and security of entire populations. We ignore these dynamics at our peril as we go about designing health systems, nutrition,
or other population health interventions whose fundamental opportunities and risks are determined by the broader systems of power and politics.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><u></u> See: <a href="http://globalhealth.thelancet.com/2017/06/09/2-years-when-democracy-and-tectonics-collide" target="_blank">http://globalhealth.thelancet.<wbr>com/2017/06/09/2-years-when-<wbr>democracy-and-tectonics-<wbr>collide</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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