Protecting the Health of the Poor
Social Movements in the South
Published on 15. December 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-1-78360-552-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
Provides essential guidance for all development practitioners and reminds us to beware of easy fixes. * Saman Yazdani Khan, Centre for Health and Population Studies, Pakistan * This timely volume explores poverty and health in the context of the free market. The application of human rights to safeguard the health of poor people is illustrated with clarity and conviction. * Lucia D'Ambruoso, University of Aberdeen * A thought-provoking and provocative collection of essays that amount to an urgently needed call for action in promoting global health. Contains important contributions from scholars and development practitioners in many countries. * Nicole Hassoun, Binghamton University * Presents compelling evidence of diverse health inequities, traversing both political economy and political ecology, that continue to haunt global conscience. * Rajib Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University * This book is a comprehensive assessment of the health consequences of poverty: it is courageous in its honesty and appropriately demanding of its reader. We must act. * Stephen Leeder, University of Sydney (Emeritus) *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Tables, black and white 18 ; Figures 31
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
405 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78360-552-1 (9781783605521)
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Persons
Abraar Karan is an MD candidate in the Global Health Pathway at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he serves as the student body president. His writings have been featured in a number of well-known publication venues, including Medscape, The Lancet, Academic Medicine, PLoS Global Health, Global Post, Kevin MD, and the Global Health Hub.
Geeta Sodhi, DNB (Paeds), is a qualified paediatrician who veered into public health and the development sector more than two decades ago as a social entrepreneur. Her research has been published in various edited volumes, and she has been an invited speaker at several international conferences and academic institutions.
Geeta Sodhi, DNB (Paeds), is a qualified paediatrician who veered into public health and the development sector more than two decades ago as a social entrepreneur. Her research has been published in various edited volumes, and she has been an invited speaker at several international conferences and academic institutions.
Content
Introduction - Abraar Karan and Geeta Sodhi
Part I: Legal Movements
1. Requesting a Compulsory Licence for Kaletra, aAn HIV/AIDS Antiretroviral Drug, in Colombia - Luz Marina Umbasia Bernal
2. Impact of the World Trade Organization's Agreements on Agriculture and on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights on the Health of Citizens in the Developing World - Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua
Part II: Political Movements
3. Managing an A(H1N1) Pandemic: Public Health or healthy Business? - German Velasquez
4. Catastrophic Health Expenditure, Health Insurance Coverage, and Poor People in India: New Evidence on Healthcare Costs Leading to Impoverishment - T. V. Sekher, Kaushalendra Kumar, and V. P. Shijith
5. Crisis of the Global Innovation Model for Medicines: A Civil Society Organizations' Perspective - Francisco Rossi Buenaventura and Luis Guillermo Restrepo Velez
Part III: Interventional Approaches
6. Advancing Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Among Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Young Persons in India - Monika Arora, Abha Tewari, Shalini Bassi, Gaurang P. Nazar, Neeru S. Juneja, Melissa B. Harrell, Cheryl L. Perry, and K. Srinath Reddy
7. Addressing the Vulnerability of Urban Poor Women to Negative Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes - Geeta Sodhi and Skylab Sahu
Part IV: Multifaceted Movements
8. International Poverty Law and Human Rights From Below: Latin American Affirmation of the Right to Health of Indigenous Peoples, Migrants, and the Displaced - Camilo Perez-Bustillo
9. Sociopolitics of HIV in Uganda: Proposing a Socio-Behavioural Movement in Response to Donor Politics and the Economic Erisis - Abraar Karan
10. Health Impact Fund: Aligning Incentives - Thomas Pogge
Part I: Legal Movements
1. Requesting a Compulsory Licence for Kaletra, aAn HIV/AIDS Antiretroviral Drug, in Colombia - Luz Marina Umbasia Bernal
2. Impact of the World Trade Organization's Agreements on Agriculture and on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights on the Health of Citizens in the Developing World - Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua
Part II: Political Movements
3. Managing an A(H1N1) Pandemic: Public Health or healthy Business? - German Velasquez
4. Catastrophic Health Expenditure, Health Insurance Coverage, and Poor People in India: New Evidence on Healthcare Costs Leading to Impoverishment - T. V. Sekher, Kaushalendra Kumar, and V. P. Shijith
5. Crisis of the Global Innovation Model for Medicines: A Civil Society Organizations' Perspective - Francisco Rossi Buenaventura and Luis Guillermo Restrepo Velez
Part III: Interventional Approaches
6. Advancing Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Among Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Young Persons in India - Monika Arora, Abha Tewari, Shalini Bassi, Gaurang P. Nazar, Neeru S. Juneja, Melissa B. Harrell, Cheryl L. Perry, and K. Srinath Reddy
7. Addressing the Vulnerability of Urban Poor Women to Negative Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes - Geeta Sodhi and Skylab Sahu
Part IV: Multifaceted Movements
8. International Poverty Law and Human Rights From Below: Latin American Affirmation of the Right to Health of Indigenous Peoples, Migrants, and the Displaced - Camilo Perez-Bustillo
9. Sociopolitics of HIV in Uganda: Proposing a Socio-Behavioural Movement in Response to Donor Politics and the Economic Erisis - Abraar Karan
10. Health Impact Fund: Aligning Incentives - Thomas Pogge