Research Catalog

Title

Blue marble health : an innovative plan to fight diseases of the poor amid wealth / Peter J. Hotez ; foreword by Cher.

Author

Hotez, Peter J.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

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Details

Description

xiii, 205 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Tropical Medicine > economics
• Health Equity > economics
• Global Health > economics
• Poverty Areas
• Neglected Diseases > economics
• Tropical medicine > Economic aspects
• Poor > Health and hygiene
• World health > Economic aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9781421420462
• 1421420465
• 9781421420479 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
• 1421420473 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015046697

OCLC

• 930786505
• SCSB-10544169

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library