We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
from Part III - Beyond Autonomy: Turning to the Community to Protect the Individual
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 September 2019
The relative inaccessibility of effective treatments for common conditions that plague people in the least developed countries (LDCs)1 has perpetuated the ongoing global health disparity. Such well-documented impact has highlighted, among other problems, the inequitable production of health knowledge relevant to addressing disease burdens in these regions. People in LDCs suffer from the greatest burden of disease and disability, but that burden has received the least medical research attention. One study examined twenty-six poverty-related diseases that are responsible for 13.8 per cent of the global disease burden. It found that these conditions only received 1.34 per cent of global health-related R&D expenditure.2 Researchers and pharmaceutical companies in developed countries mostly focus on the priorities of wealthy regions.3 Due to high costs and other geo-political factors, many impoverished nations have not been able to invest in the necessary infrastructure for clinical research, perpetuating the knowledge gap among regions.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
