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Access to Healthcare and the Pharmaceutical Sector

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

KLAUS M. LEISINGER  and
KARIN M. SCHMITT
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Health is higher on the international agenda than ever before, and improving the health of poor people is a central issue in development. Poor people suffer from far higher levels of ill health, mortality, and malnutrition than do those better off, and their inadequate health is one of the factors keeping them poor or for their being poor in the first place. Health is a crucially important economic asset, particularly for poor people. Their livelihoods depend on it. When poor people become ill or injured, their entire household can become trapped in a downward spiral of lost income and high healthcare costs—a vicious circle of poverty and ill health.

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Symposium on Global Bioethics
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 309 - 325
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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