Mega sporting events: A poisoned chalice or a new dawn for low- and middle-income
Mega sporting events in South Africa, which has the largest number of HIV-positive people in the world, and India, with 1.8 million deaths of children under 5 each year and 52 million stunted children, raise questions about the effective and, as importantly, the moral imperative of spending billions...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Edinburgh University Global Health Society
2011-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Global Health |
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Online Access: | http://www.jogh.org/documents/issue201101/7-Viewpoint%20Tomlinson.pdf |
Summary: | Mega sporting events in South Africa, which has the largest number of HIV-positive people in the world, and India, with 1.8 million deaths of children under 5 each year and 52 million stunted children, raise questions about the effective and, as importantly, the moral imperative of spending billions of dollars to host a sporting event. From a health perspective, selling alcohol and debt tarnishes further the notion of any intangible benefits of mega events to low- and middle-income countries.
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ISSN: | 2047-2978 2047-2986 |