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Global Public Health: Targeting Inequities
William H. Foege, MD
JAMA. 1998;279:1931-1932.
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INTRODUCTION
THE COURSE OF global public health in this century can be summarized in 4 words: spectacular accomplishments, spectacular inequities. Progress has been so dramatic that more improvements in the health status of people worldwide have occurred during the 40-year lifetime of a child born in 1958 than were accomplished during the "entire previous span of human history."1 Nevertheless, essential public health resources remain inequitably distributed, and great disparities in health status persist between populations worldwide.
Progress in Global Public Health
The improvements in global public health have resulted from several formative trends; 4 are of special note. First has been the scientific obsession to understand the mechanisms of disease, from the molecular to the social level. By dispelling superstition and myth, advances in biomedical knowledge have laid the foundation for the development and implementation of effective prevention and treatment programs. Second, governments, corporations, and universities have become linked in an expanding . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Targeting Inequities
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From the Department of International Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
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