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is a non-profit organization and registered charity, whose mission is "to support health professionals from all disciplines to work together towards a world in which everyone can truly achieve and exercise their human right to health".
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Medact has produced reports documenting the phenomenon of health worker migration from less economically developed nations to rich countries, which they describe as a "perverse subsidy".
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Medact also works on the health of refugees and migrants in the UK, in particular documenting and challenging barriers to healthcare.
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and, as part of the Count the Casualties campaign, have called for an independent investigation into increased mortality in Iraq.
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Medact has been involved in the Global Health Watch, a civil society project aiming to produce alternative versions of the
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The archive of Medact (and its predecessor body the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons) is held at
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Between 2001 and 2012, Medact produced a number of reports on the
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International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
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Environmental organisations based in the United Kingdom
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the Medical Association for the Prevention of War
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health impact of the war in Iraq
Lancet surveys of casualties of the Iraq War
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