Third world health : hostage to first world health /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	MacDonald, Theodore H. (Theodore Harney), 1933-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; Seattle : Radcliffe Pub., [2005]
Subjects:	Developing Countries > economics. Public Health > economics. Environmental Health. Internationality. Socioeconomic Factors. Global Health. Health promotion > Developing countries. Health promotion > Economic aspects > Developing countries. World health > Social aspects > Developing countries. World health > Economic aspects > Developing countries. Public health > Social aspects > Developing countries. Public health > Economic aspects > Developing countries.

Table of Contents:

Health and poverty
Problems caused by inequities in wealth and by environmental damage
Mortgaging the third world
The conflict between global health and global finance : a case study approach
The third world helping itself - community health programmes
Poverty, health and finance
Popular opposition to the inequities
Milk and imperalism
The impact of first world wealth on third world health : British American Tobacco in China
The tobacco impact worldwide
The third world and HIV/AIDS
Peru - a detailed case study of one third world country until 2000
Cuba - model or monster
Possible routes to global health equity