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845464
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Hotez, Peter J.
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| Title & Author
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Blue marble health : : an innovative plan to fight diseases of the poor amid wealth /\ Peter J. Hotez ; with a foreword by Cher.
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| Publication Statement
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Baltimore :: Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2016.
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1 online resource (xiii, 205 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1421420473
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: 1421420473
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: 9781421420479
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1421420465
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9781421420462
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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"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."--
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Poor-- Health and hygiene.
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Tropical medicine-- Economic aspects.
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World health-- Economic aspects.
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Poor-- Health and hygiene
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Neglected Diseases-- economics.
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Poverty Areas.
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Global Health-- economics.
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Health Equity-- economics.
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Tropical Medicine-- economics.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.1086/942
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RA418.5.P6H68 2016eb
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2016 H-674
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W 74.1
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