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... Chapter 002. Global Issues in Medicine (Part 10) In stark contrast to the extraordinary lengths to which patients in wealthy countries will go to treat ... uncontrolled in this setting. In the Framingham cohort of men 45–74 years old, the prevalence of blood pressures above 210/120 declined from 1.8% in the 1950s to 0.1% in the 1990s with the introduction .....

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... each year. New research, new policies, and new funding mechanisms were called for. Some of the requisite Chapter 002. Global Issues in Medicine (Part 2) The optimism born of the world's ... the WHO's direct investigation of a wide range of global health problems, including pandemic influenza, in any member state—were strengthened and brought into force in...

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... The latter report reflects growth in the available data on health in the poorest countries Chapter 002. Global Issues in Medicine (Part 3) The Economics of Global Health Political and economic ... cycle." International financial institutions, including the World Bank and the IMF, have counseled limited investments and the capping of social expenditures in i...

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... Priorities in Developing Countries (DCP2). Published in 2006, DCP2 is a document of stunning breadth and ambition, providing cost-effectiveness analyses for >100 interventions and including 21 chapters ... point, we turn in greater detail to AIDS, which has become, in the course of the last three decades, the world's leading infectious cause of death during adulthood. C...

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... Chapter 002. Global Issues in Medicine (Part 5) AIDS Chapter 182 provides an overview of the AIDS epidemic in the world today. Here we will limit ourselves to a discussion of AIDS in ... of AIDS in the developing world. Lessons learned in tackling AIDS in resource-constrained settings are highly relevant to discussions of other chronic diseases, including n...

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... registered in U.S. hospitals is not confined to the industrialized world or to bacterial infections. In some settings, a substantial minority of patients with TB are infected with strains resistant ... conclusions, many of them pertinent to global health in general (Fig. 2-3). First, charging fees for AIDS prevention and care will pose insurmountable problems for people living...

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... data-collection methods in sub-Saharan Africa are inadequate and indicators may thus lag behind actual outcomes of ongoing campaigns, they nevertheless acknowledge that "RBM is acting against a background ... mortality: the use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), combination antimalarial therapy, and indoor residual spraying. ITNs are an efficacious and cost-effective public h...

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... Global Issues in Medicine (Part 8) Limited success in scaling-up ITN coverage reflects the inadequately acknowledged economic barriers that prevent the destitute sick from accessing critical ... vaccination. The adoption of free ITN distribution strategies has been limited, however, by concerns about their feasibility and potential ITN misuse (for example, as nets for Ch...

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... research and investment have long focused on the ischemic conditions that are increasingly common in high- and middle-income countries. Meanwhile, despite awareness of its health impact during the ... organs—cardiovascular diseases reflect injury to a single organ system downstream of a variety of insults. The burden of chronic cardiovascular disease in low-income countries represent...

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... surveys of Chapter 002. Global Issues in Medicine (Part 11) Diabetes The International Diabetes Federation reports that the number of diabetics in the world is expected to increase from ... for 20% of lower respiratory infections in developed countries and for as many as 42% of such infections in developing countries. Various forms of unintentional injury and malar...

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