Third world health
Subtitle: hostage to first world wealth
By: Théodore H. MacDonald ; foreword by Desmond M. Tutu.
Publisher: Radcliffe Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Developing Countries -- economics; Public Health -- economics; Environmental Health; Socioeconomic Factors; World Health; Health promotion -- Developing countries; Health promotion -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries; World health -- Social aspects -- Developing countries; World health -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries; Public health -- Social aspects -- Developing countries; Public health -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Health and poverty.; title: Problems caused by inequities in wealth and by environmental damage.; title: Mortgaging the third world.; title: The conflict between global health and global finance: a case study approach.; title: The third world itself: community health programmes.; title: Poverty, health and finance.; title: Popular opposition to the inequities.; title: Milk and imperialism.; title: The impact of first world wealth on third world health: British American Tobacco in China.; title: The tobacco impact worldwide.; title: The third world and HIV/AIDS.; title: Peru: a detailed case study of one third world country until 2000.; title: Cuba: model or monster?; title: Possible routes to global health equity.; title: Appendices.