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Blue Marble Health - An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor amid Wealth (Paperback)
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Blue Marble Health - An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor amid Wealth (Paperback)
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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. He explores the
current state of neglected diseases in such disparate countries as
Mexico, South Korea, Argentina, Australia, the United States,
Japan, and Nigeria. 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. Clear,
compassionate, and timely, Blue Marble Health is a must-read for
leaders in global health, tropical medicine, and international
development, along with anyone committed to helping the millions of
people who are caught in the desperate cycle of poverty and
disease.
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