Ronald Labonté
The State of Global Health in a Radically Unequal World: Patterns and Prospects
Labonté, Ronald; Schrecker, Ted
Authors
Ted Schrecker
Contributors
S. Benatar
Editor
G. Brock
Editor
Abstract
“If living were a thing that money could buy” Imagine for a moment a series of disasters that killed almost 1400 women every day for a year: the equivalent of four or five daily crashes of crowded long-distance airliners. There is little question that such a situation would quickly be regarded as a humanitarian emergency, as the stuff of headlines, especially if ways of preventing the events were well known and widely practised in some parts of the world. However, remarkably little attention is paid outside the global health and human rights domains to the complications of pregnancy and childbirth that kill more than 500,000 women every year – a cause of death now almost unheard-of in high-income countries (HICs). A Canadian woman’s lifetime risk of dying from complications of pregnancy or childbirth is one in 11,000. For a woman in Niger, one of the world’s poorest countries, it is one in 7 and for the developing world as a whole one in 76 (Say, Inoue, Mills, & Suzuki, 2007; see also UNICEF, 2008a). This is one example among many of the health contrasts between rich and poor worlds.
Citation
Labonté, R., & Schrecker, T. (2011). The State of Global Health in a Radically Unequal World: Patterns and Prospects. In S. Benatar, & G. Brock (Eds.), Global health and global health ethics (24-36). Cambridge University Press
Publication Date | 2011 |
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Deposit Date | Jun 24, 2013 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 24-36 |
Book Title | Global health and global health ethics. |
Publisher URL | http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item5731799/?site_locale=en_GB |
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