Canada ought to develop a strategy to address the well-documented low levels of health literacy. Improving health literacy will allow for the better management of chronic diseases and would lead to an improvement in health outcomes, according to the lead-organizers of an International Roundtable on health literacy and chronic disease management, which wrapped up at … Read more
As food crises around the world continue to raise questions about the security and safety of global food production, a new book released in collaboration with the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies examines agriculture globally, which, according to the authors, has come progressively under the domination of the capitalist market, transforming productive relations in … Read more
The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies has welcomed two new international visiting research scholars to the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus: Dr. Jaime Breilh (Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Quito, Ecuador) and Dr. Raina Elley (University of Auckland, New Zealand). More information is available online. Call 604-822-9575.
