Closing the Cancer Divide: An Equity Imperative (Global Health and Equity) - Softcover

 
9780982914403: Closing the Cancer Divide: An Equity Imperative (Global Health and Equity)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0982914407 ISBN 13: 9780982914403
Verlag: Harvard Global Equity Initiative, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Cancer has become a leading cause of death and disability and a serious yet unforeseen challenge to health systems in low- and middle-income countries. A protracted and polarized cancer transition is under way and fuels a concentration of preventable risk, illness, suffering, impoverishment from ill health, and death among poor populations. Closing this cancer divide is an equity imperative. The world faces a huge, unperceived cost of failure to take action that requires an immediate and large-scale global response.

Closing the Cancer Divide presents strategies for innovation in delivery, pricing, procurement, finance, knowledge-building, and leadership that can be scaled up by applying a diagonal approach to health system strengthening. The chapters provide evidence-based recommendations for developing programs, local and global policy-making, and prioritizing research. The cases and frameworks provide a guide for developing responses to the challenge of cancer and other chronic illnesses. The book summarizes results of the Global Task Force on Expanding Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries, a collaboration among leaders from the global health and cancer care communities worldwide, originally convened by Harvard University. It includes contributions from civil society, global and national policy-makers, patients and practitioners, and academics representing an array of fields.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Felicia Marie Knaul, Ph.D., is Director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Economist at the Mexican Health Foundation. She is also the founder of Cáncer de mama: Tómatelo a Pecho.

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Verlag
Harvard Global Equity Initiative
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0982914407
ISBN 13 
9780982914403
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
353
Herausgeber
Knaul Felicia Marie, Gralow Julie R., Atun Rifat, Bhadelia Afsan
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