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, are growing, and are related to several economic, social and health sector variables. Global efforts to deal with this …
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Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and … national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because … health justice. Aim: To study why global health inequalities are morally troubling, why efforts to reduce them are morally …
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The problem of antimicrobial resistance has led some infectious disease experts and their professional societies to propose the use of transferable intellectual property rights (wildcard patents) and patent term extensions as methods to encourage antimicrobial Ramp;D. We evaluate recent...
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Millions of people in the developing world lack access to curative drugs. Thomas Pogge identifies the cause for this problem in a lack of redistribution across borders. By contrast, this article shows that institutional shortcomings within developing countries are the main issue. The different...
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This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …
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multisector response (including the health, agriculture, and veterinary sectors), global coordination, and financing mechanisms …
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Judge Bryson recently asserted in Association for Molecular Pathology v. US Patent and Trademark Office (dissenting-in-part) that human gene patents "present a significant obstacle to the next generation of innovation in genetic medicine — multiplex tests and whole-genome sequencing." His...
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Patents are often portrayed as the necessary reward to compensate pharmaceutical firms for the huge costs and risks associated with Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-mandated clinical trials of new drugs. But the relationship between the patent system and other regulation of drugs is more...
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World War II, the bank today is a considerable force in the health, nutrition, and population (HNP) sector in developing … countries. Indeed, it has evolved from having virtually no presence in global health to being the world's largest financial … contributor to health-related projects, now committing more than $1 billion annually for new HNP projects. It is also one of the …
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The extent of premature death and ill health in the developing world is staggering. Death and ill health on such a … concerns that led the international community to put health firmly at the center of the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) when … health globally, especially in developing countries calls for committed and renewed focus on what works on-the-ground without …
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