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When You Reach a Fork in the Road, Take it: Science and Product Development as Linked Paths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2021

Gerald T. Keusch
Gerald T. Keusch*
Affiliation:
Global Health, Boston University
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Increasingly, health is recognized as a major force for economic development; and because economic development is central to political and social stability, health is being looked at as the great hope for the future of the world, as population sizes and disparities among them increase. This perspective has been growing ever since the 1993 World Development Report was released by the World Bank, and it has fueled an intensive scrutiny of health care around the world, focusing on systems and health care delivery on the one hand, and equitable access to the products of research on the other hand. In the middle of all of is this is a concern about how health care (which must include both the training of personnel from the basic low level health care worker to the physician), and research and development (which must include the financing of research in academia and the development of products primarily in the private sector) are organized, and how they do or do not address inequities between and within populations and nations.

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American Journal of Law & Medicine , Volume 34 , Issue 2-3 , June 2008 , pp. 141 - 149
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 2008

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Editor's Note: this article is an edited version of the remarks Dr. Keusch made at the symposium.

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