Blue marble health : an innovative plan to fight diseases of the poor amid wealth / Peter J. Hotez ; with a foreword by Cher.
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- 9781421420479
- 1421420473
- Poor -- Health and hygiene
- Tropical medicine -- Economic aspects
- World health -- Economic aspects
- Neglected Diseases -- economics
- Poverty Areas
- Global Health -- economics
- Health Equity -- economics
- Tropical Medicine -- economics
- Pauvres -- Santé et hygiène
- Médecine tropicale -- Aspect économique
- Santé mondiale -- Aspect économique
- Poor -- Health and hygiene
- 362.1086/942 23
- RA418.5.P6 H68 2016eb
- 2016 H-674
- W 74.1
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO), viewed September 7, 2016.
A changing landscape in global health -- The "other diseases": the neglected tropical diseases -- Introducing blue marble health (BMH) -- East Asia : China, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea -- India -- Sub-Saharan Africa : Nigeria and South Africa -- Middle East and North Africa : ISIS-occupied zones and Saudi Arabia -- In the Americas : Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico -- Australia, Canada, European Union, Russian Federation, and Turkey -- United States of America -- The G20 : "a theory of justice" -- A framework for science and vaccine diplomacy -- Future directions.
"In 2011, Dr. Peter J. Hotez relocated to Houston to launch Baylor's National School of Tropical Medicine. He was shocked to discover that a number of neglected diseases often associated with developing countries were widespread in impoverished Texas communities. Despite the United States' economic prowess and first-world status, an estimated 12 million Americans living at the poverty level currently suffer from at least one neglected tropical disease, or NTD. Hotez concluded that the world's neglected diseases-which include tuberculosis, hookworm infection, lymphatic filariasis, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasis-are born first and foremost of extreme poverty. In this book, Hotez describes a new global paradigm known as 'blue marble health, ' through which he asserts that poor people living in wealthy countries account for most of the world's poverty-related illness. By crafting public policy and relying on global partnerships to control or eliminate some of the world's worst poverty-related illnesses, Hotez believes, it is possible to eliminate life-threatening disease while at the same time creating unprecedented opportunities for science and diplomacy."-- Provided by publisher.
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