BookPeter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine.
Summary: In 2011, Dr. Peter J. Hotez relocated to Houston to launch Baylor's National School of Tropical Medicine. He was shocked to discover that a number of neglected diseases often associated with developing countries were widespread in impoverished Texas communities. Despite the United States' economic prowess and first-world status, an estimated 12 million Americans living at the poverty level currently suffer from at least one neglected tropical disease, or NTD. Hotez concluded that the world's neglected diseases-which include tuberculosis, hookworm infection, lymphatic filariasis, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasis-are born first and foremost of extreme poverty. In this book, Hotez describes a new global paradigm known as "blue marble health," through which he asserts that poor people living in wealthy countries account for most of the world's poverty-related illness. By crafting public policy and relying on global partnerships to control or eliminate some of the world's worst poverty-related illnesses, Hotez believes, it is possible to eliminate life-threatening disease while at the same time creating unprecedented opportunities for science and diplomacy.
Contents:
A changing landscape in global health
The "other diseases": the neglected tropical diseases
Introducing blue marble health
East Asia : China, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea
India
Sub-Saharan Africa : Nigeria and South Africa
Saudi Arabia and neighboring conflict zones of the Middle East and North African region
The Americas : Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Australia, Canada, European Union, Russian Federation, and Turkey
United States of America
The G20 : "a theory of justice"
A framework for science and vaccine diplomacy
Future directions.
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