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Surgery and Global Health
Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2007;9:(doi:10.1001/archfaci.9.6.qed70001).
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But however much concerned I was at the problem of the misery in the world I never let myself get lost in the broodings over it; I always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of it to an end.—Albert Schweitzer, MD, Out of My Life and Thought1(p186)
Discussions of global health priorities focus naturally on the large number of patients with malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, and other infectious diseases. The epidemiology of these diseases is complex and in its broadest sense includes the global socioeconomic structures responsible for their prevalence. A recent book, Awakening Hippocrates: A Primer in Health, Poverty, and Global Service,2 places global health disparities in a historical perspective and emphasizes the role of structural violence to the poor of the world as the result of human choices in the allocation of resources. While solutions . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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