A prescription for health inequity: Building public health infrastructure in resource-poor settings
We live in a fortunate time: we have treatments and other essential tools we need to combat AIDS and other epidemics. Health is a human right. But interventions, either overpriced or merely nonexistent, are usually least available in places they are needed the most. A majority of deaths in these re...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh University Global Health Society
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Global Health |
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| Online Access: | http://www.jogh.org/documents/issue201202/6-Viewpoint%20Moten.pdf |
| Summary: | We live in a fortunate time: we have treatments and other essential tools we need to combat AIDS and other epidemics. Health is a human right. But interventions, either overpriced or merely nonexistent, are usually least available in places they are needed the
most. A majority of deaths in these resource-poor settings are avoidable and demonstrate a failure of the health care infrastructure. |
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| ISSN: | 2047-2978 2047-2986 |