Closing the Cancer Divide: An Equity Imperative

by Elena Kouri, David Hunter, Leslie Lemann, et al.

Cancer has become a leading cause of death and disability and a serious yet unforeseen challenge to health systems in low- and middle-income countries. A protracted and polarized cancer transition is under way and fuels a concentration of preventable risk, illness, suffering, impoverishment from ill health, and death among poor populations. Closing this cancer divide is an equity imperative. The world faces a huge, unperceived cost of failure to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982914407
• ISBN13: 9780982914403
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"