Capstone - Neglected Tropical Diseases 2: Neglected Populations, NTDs and neglected symptoms

ISBN-13: 9783656452232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 36 str.

Donna Carrillo Lopez

Opis

Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: A, Tufts University School of Medicine (PREP), course: Pain Research, Education and Policy, language: English, abstract: This is an overview of neglected tropical diseases and neglect of pain in populations who have been left out of the benefits of political and economic globalization. What do we need to understand as development specialists, economists, policy opinion makers, social welfare advocates and students of international relations? The import of the issues covered are critical for all of us willing to comprehend the issues of social justice as we live through this novel, often cacaphonic, era of global coexistence.

O autorze

Registered Nurse with clinical focus on education and research; academic focus - global development: undergraduate degree, UCLA International Studies; Graduate work in social sciences with focus on Latin America; MS in Pain Research, Education and Policy from Tufts Medical School PHPD. Interest in integrative health, formally studying Chinese medicine for two years and global herbal medicine. Interest in social welfare and social justice as applied to economic globalization in middle and low income countries.