Beyond the surgery—health professionals and global poverty

Abstract

Many health professionals who work in developing countries have already made links between the many children with diarrhoea they struggle to treat and the root causes of their condition. Without also attempting to change the economic and political causes of global poverty, health professionals know that cases of diarrhoea are unlikely to diminish. These children are included in the 2006 UN Human Development Report, 1 UNHuman development report 2006. http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/pdfs/report/HDR06-complete.pdfDate: 2006 Google Scholar which revealed that 1·8 million children each year die as a result of diarrhoea, and that close to half of all ill people in developing countries have a health problem caused by a lack of clean water and sanitation. Global poverty and medical journalsThis week The Lancet is one of the 235 journals from 37 countries, covering every region of the world, which participated in the Council of Science Editors' global theme issue on global poverty and human development. Collectively, nearly 750 articles were published representing 110 countries, and The Lancet's contribution, which includes a Special Report on the World Bank, is published in this week's issue. Full-Text PDF