The world's largest economic powers have both a responsibility and an interest in reducing diseases that account for the greatest losses in healthy years of life worldwide, according to this month's Editorial, by Peter Hotez, Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and Larry Peiperl, Chief Editor of PLOS Medicine.
Examining recent WHO data on years of life lost from non-communicable diseases, which have long been seen as the scourge of wealthy countries, the Editors argue that the distribution of NCDs among economically powerful countries suggests disproportionate burden on the poor living among the wealthy.
This Editorial accompanies another in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases making a similar case regarding parasitic infections, and an update to the PLOS Blue Marble Health Collection.
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Editorial
Noncommunicable Diseases: A Globalization of Disparity?
PLOS Medicine: published July 28, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001859
Essays
Connecting the Dots: Health Information Technology Expansion and Health Disparities
PLOS Medicine: published July 14, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001852
Ebola Virus Disease: Experience and Decision Making for the First Patients outside of Africa
PLOS Medicine: published July 28, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001857
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