Protecting the Health of the Poor - Social Movements in the South

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. presents a call and a vision for unified efforts across geographies, levels and sectors to make the right to health truly universal.>

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• Authors: Abraar Karan, Abraar Sodhi Karan, Geeta Sodhi
• Assisted by: Juliana Martínez Franzoni (Editor), Abraar Karan (Editor), Karan Abraar (Editor), Thomas Pogge (Editor), Geeta Sodhi (Editor), Sodhi Geeta (Editor)
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2015
• EAN: 9781783605538
• ISBN: 978-1-78360-553-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: International Studies in Poverty Research; International Studies in Poverty Research; International Studies in Pover; Zed Books - International Stud
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Poverty & unemployment, Developing Countries, Development Studies, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Poverty and precarity, Global South / Developing countries