ABSTRACT
AN ELDERLY WOMAN DIES ALONE from hypothermia in a run-down quarter of Atlanta, USA; a retired female architect celebrates the birth of her third great-grandson at an expensive restaurant in a fashionable district of Sydney; a young drug-dealing male is shot dead in a riot over rising food prices in down-town Portau-Prince, Haiti; a child dies a slow death from diarrhoea in rural Sierra Leone, a country where more than one in four children die before the age of five years; a British soldier returning from serving in Afghanistan is diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after a suicide attempt; an obese middle-aged businessman from Beijing, China, contracts type-2 diabetes; a teenage girl from Montpelier in France becomes dangerously emaciated after following advice about body-image from a pro-anorexia Internet site; a male media executive undergoes a full-health/disease assessment at a private clinic in Frankfurt, Germany, and is diagnosed as ‘worried-but-well’.
