Mega sporting events: A poisoned chalice or a new dawn for low- and middle-income

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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Main Author: Mark Tomlinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh University Global Health Society 2011-06-01
Series:Journal of Global Health
Subjects:
Mega-sporting events
low- and middle-income countries
health perspective
Online Access:http://www.jogh.org/documents/issue201101/7-Viewpoint%20Tomlinson.pdf
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spelling doaj-0073d5387ac34b1e9b2790292dfea5722020-11-24T21:34:40ZengEdinburgh University Global Health SocietyJournal of Global Health2047-29782047-29862011-06-0111Mega sporting events: A poisoned chalice or a new dawn for low- and middle-incomeMark Tomlinson0Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South AfricaMega 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. http://www.jogh.org/documents/issue201101/7-Viewpoint%20Tomlinson.pdfMega-sporting eventslow- and middle-income countrieshealth perspective
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health perspective
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title Mega sporting events: A poisoned chalice or a new dawn for low- and middle-income
title_short Mega sporting events: A poisoned chalice or a new dawn for low- and middle-income
title_full Mega sporting events: A poisoned chalice or a new dawn for low- and middle-income
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title_full_unstemmed Mega sporting events: A poisoned chalice or a new dawn for low- and middle-income
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publisher Edinburgh University Global Health Society
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2047-2986
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description 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.
topic Mega-sporting events
low- and middle-income countries
health perspective
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