Caring for the World: A Guidebook to Global Health Opportunities
264 pp, $65
Toronto, ON, Canada, University of Toronto Press, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-9804-7
- Samuel Y. Sessions, MD, JD, ReviewerSemel Institute in Neuroscience and Human BehaviorUniversity of California, Los Angeles ssessions@mednet.ucla.edu
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With so much attention focused on efforts to reform health care in the United States, it is easy to lose sight of the even more daunting health problems faced in other parts of the world. Many poor countries fail to provide even the barest minimum of health services to their citizens. Annual per capita health spending in the United States is greater than combined per capita health care spending in the poorest 70 countries. Living conditions in many places are grim, and life expectancies in developed nations are 30 years longer than in developing countries.
Caring for the World: A Guidebook to Global Health Opportunities describes these and other challenges in global health, but its main purpose is to serve as a manual for those interested in trying to address them. It presents detailed information about a wide range of options for doing so, the rewards and difficulties involved, and …
