Protecting the Health of the Poor - Social Movements in the South (Hardcover)

Nowhere is the injustice of the global distribution of income and wealth more palpable than in health. While the world's affluent spend fortunes on the most trifling treatments, poor people's lives are ruined and often cut short prematurely by challenges that could easily be overcome at low cost: childbirth, diarrhoea, malnutrition, malaria, HIV/AIDS, measles, pneumonia. Millions are avoidably dying from such causes each year and billions of lives avoidably blighted by these diseases of poverty. Drawing on in-depth empirical research spanning Asia, Latin America, and Africa, this path-breaking collection offers fresh perspectives from critically engaged scholars. Protecting the Health of the Poor presents a call and a vision for unified efforts across geographies, levels and sectors to make the right to health truly universal.

General

Imprint:	Zed Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	International Studies in Poverty Research
Release date:	December 2015
Editors:	Abraar Karan • Geeta Sodhi
Dimensions:	222 x 143 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-1-78360-553-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78360-553-7
Barcode:	9781783605538

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