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Title

Closing the cancer divide : an equity imperative / edited by Felicia Marie Knaul, Julie Gralow, Rifat Atun, Afsan Bhadelia ; forewords by Harvey V. Fineberg, Amartya Sen.

Publication

Boston, Mass. : Harvard Global Equity Initiative ; Chichester : John Wiley [distributor], [2012]

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Additional Authors

• Knaul, Felicia Marie.
• Gralow, Julie.
• Harvard University. Global Equity Initiative.

Description

l, 353 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

Cancer has become a leading cause of death and disability and a serious yet unforeseen challenge to health systems in low-and middle-income countries. A protracted and polarized cancer transition is under way and fuels a concentration of preventable risk, illness, suffering, impoverishment from ill health, and death among poor populations. Closing this cancer divide is an equity imperative. The world faces a huge, unperceived cost of failure to take action that requires an immediate and large-scale global response. Closing the Cancer Divide presents strategies for innovation in delivery, pricing, procurement, finance, knowledge-building, and leadership that can be scaled up by applying a diagonal approach to health system strengthening. The chapters provide evidence-based recommendations for developing programs, local and global policy-making, and prioritizing research. The cases and frameworks provide a guide for developing responses to the challenge of cancer and other chronic illnesses. The book summarizes results of the Global Task Force on Expanding Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries, a collaboration among leaders from the global health and cancer care communities worldwide, originally convened by Harvard University. It includes contributions from civil society, global and national policy-makers, patients and practitioners, and academics representing an array of fields.--Publisher website.

Subject

• Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries
• Cancer > Treatment > Developing countries
• Cancer > Social aspects > Developing countries
• Poor > Health and hygiene > Developing countries
• Neoplasms > prevention & control
• Developing Countries
• Early Detection of Cancer > economics
• Health Services Accessibility > economics
• Neoplasms > economics
• Socioeconomic Factors

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Closing the cancer divide: overview and summary -- The global cancer divide: an equity imperative -- Investing in cancer care and control -- Health system strengthening and cancer: a diagonal response to the challenge of chronicity -- Core elements for provision of cancer care and control in low and middle income countries -- Innovative delivery of cancer care and control in low-resource scenarios -- Access to affordable medicines, vaccines, and health technologies -- Innovative financing: local and global opportunities -- Evidence for decision-making: strengthening health information systems and the research base -- Strengthening stewardship and leadership to expand access to cancer care and control.

ISBN

• 9780982914403 (pbk.)
• 0982914407 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 780334058
• SCSB-11095360

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library