Global health challenges: The need for an expanded discourse on bioethics
| dc.contributor.author | Benatar, Solomon R | |
| dc.contributor.author | Daar, Abdallah S | |
| dc.contributor.author | Singer, Peter A | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-24T06:49:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-11-24T06:49:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2017-11-09T11:07:44Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Although the 20th century saw a major expansion of the world economy, impressive military/security advances, and spectacular progress in science and technology, the grim reality in the first decade of the new millennium is that human life, health, and security remain under severe threat—but now from the adverse effects of inexorably widening disparities in wealth, health, and knowledge within and between nations. The gap between the income of the richest and poorest 20% of people in the world increased from a 9-fold difference at the beginning of the 20th century to 30-fold by 1960—and since then to over 80-fold by 2000 (Figure 1). Although life expectancy has improved dramatically worldwide during this century, this trend has been reversed in the poorest countries in recent years [1]. The challenge of achieving improved health for a greater proportion of the world's population is one of the most pressing problems of our time and is starkly illustrated by the threat of infectious diseases. | |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020143 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Benatar, S. R., Daar, A. S., & Singer, P. A. (2005). Global health challenges: The need for an expanded discourse on bioethics. <i>PLoS Medicine</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26419 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Benatar, Solomon R, Abdallah S Daar, and Peter A Singer "Global health challenges: The need for an expanded discourse on bioethics." <i>PLoS Medicine</i> (2005) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26419 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Benatar, S. R., Daar, A. S., & Singer, P. A. (2005). Global health challenges: the need for an expanded discourse on bioethics. PLoS Medicine, 2(7), e143. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Benatar, Solomon R AU - Daar, Abdallah S AU - Singer, Peter A AB - Although the 20th century saw a major expansion of the world economy, impressive military/security advances, and spectacular progress in science and technology, the grim reality in the first decade of the new millennium is that human life, health, and security remain under severe threat—but now from the adverse effects of inexorably widening disparities in wealth, health, and knowledge within and between nations. The gap between the income of the richest and poorest 20% of people in the world increased from a 9-fold difference at the beginning of the 20th century to 30-fold by 1960—and since then to over 80-fold by 2000 (Figure 1). Although life expectancy has improved dramatically worldwide during this century, this trend has been reversed in the poorest countries in recent years [1]. The challenge of achieving improved health for a greater proportion of the world's population is one of the most pressing problems of our time and is starkly illustrated by the threat of infectious diseases. DA - 2005 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - PLoS Medicine LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2005 T1 - Global health challenges: The need for an expanded discourse on bioethics TI - Global health challenges: The need for an expanded discourse on bioethics UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26419 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26419 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Benatar SR, Daar AS, Singer PA. Global health challenges: The need for an expanded discourse on bioethics. PLoS Medicine. 2005; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26419. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Medicine | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | PLoS Medicine | |
| dc.source.uri | http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020143 | |
| dc.title | Global health challenges: The need for an expanded discourse on bioethics | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
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