Abstract
Blue Marble Health: An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor amid Wealth
Highlights
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) comprise 17 helminthic, protozoan, bacterial, and vectorborne viral diseases that disproportionately affect the world’s poor (1)
In Blue Marble Health, Dr Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and founding editor of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, shifts the focus of global health from a traditional developed versus developing world paradigm toward impoverished populations living amid wealthy countries, who suffer heavily from NTDs
On the basis of previous work, Dr Hotez asserts that nearly every person in poverty is infected with at least 1 NTD, “the most important diseases you’ve never heard of.”
Summary
Blue Marble Health: An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor amid Wealth Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) comprise 17 helminthic, protozoan, bacterial, and vectorborne viral diseases that disproportionately affect the world’s poor (1). In Blue Marble Health, Dr Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and founding editor of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, shifts the focus of global health from a traditional developed versus developing world paradigm toward impoverished populations living amid wealthy countries, who suffer heavily from NTDs. The book’s title invokes an iconic image of the earth as seen from space by the Apollo astronauts.
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