An unequal blow

An Unfortunate Blow

Globalization and disease: in an unequal world, unequal health!

In this paper, originally presented at an event held by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States, the author analyzes the repercussions of globalization on various health aspects: the spread of infectious and parasitic diseases, bioterrorism, and new behavioral patterns in health, among others. He goes on to examine the positive and negative effects of international agreemen...

Health in an unequal world

Beyond Unequal Development : An Overview by

Introduction In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s development theory emphasized market failures, discontinuities, irreversibilities and excessive social inequality. The dominant development paradigm stressed the need for the state to create the adequate physical infrastructure, institutional and social conditions for development. This would entail implementing large scale public investment programs, p...

Harveian Oration Health in an unequal world

William Harvey and the Harveian Trust William Harvey was born in Folkestone on April 1, 1578. He was educated at the King’s School, Canterbury, Gonville, and Caius College, Cambridge, and the University of Padua, graduating as doctor of arts and medicine in 1602. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1607 and was appointed to the Lumleian lectureship in 1615. In the cycles of...