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Bridging the Coverage Gap in Global Health
Robert B. Eiss, MA;
Roger I. Glass, MD
JAMA. 2007;298:1940-1942.
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In this issue of JAMA, the editors have joined a remarkable international collaboration organized by the Council of Science Editors. More than 200 scientific and medical journals have agreed to publish simultaneously on a topic of key global importance—the relationship between poverty and human development. By joining together and publishing articles on this common theme, these journals highlight the problems of health disparities in the developing world and demonstrate how the tools and concerned commitment of scientists can help reduce the existing inequities.
The gaps are unacceptably wide and in some areas worsening. While one-fifth of the world's population enjoys an average life expectancy approaching 80 years and a life comparatively free of disability, two-thirds of the world's population living in the lower- and middle-income countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America suffer overwhelmingly from the global burden of illness and . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Author Affiliations: Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland.
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