How do pharmaceutical companies get away with charging exhorbitant prices for life saving drugs.?
Claims that the National Health Service can not provide treatment because of the costs invariably lead to stories about random post code eligibility; so the rich get treated while the poor suffer. You seldom hear about the disparity between research costs and the price fixing that follows, while private company profits continue to obscenely boom.
Why, trickle down will get them their medicine. Just wait another 20 years.
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The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger $5.99 The eye-opening and headline-generating UK bestseller that shows how one single factorâthe gap between its richest and poorest membersâcan determine the health and well-being of a society. âThis is a book with a big idea, big enough to change political thinkingâ¦In half a page [The Spirit Level] tells you more about the pain of inequality than any play or novel could.ââ… |
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Gender, Race, Class and Health: Intersectional Approaches (Public Health/Vulnerable Populations) $43.99 Gender, Race, Class, and Health examines relationships between economic structures, race, culture, and gender, and their combined influence on health. The authors systematically apply social and behavioral science to inspect how these dimensions intersect to influence health and health care in the United States. This examination brings into sharp focus the potential for influencing policy to impro… |
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Confronting Cancer: Metaphors, Advocacy, and Anthropology (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar) $24.73 The World Health Organization (WHO) reported more than 7 million deaths from cancer 2.5 percent of all deaths in 2005. Each year there are approximately 11 million new cases, and WHO expects that the number will double by 2020. Although the disease is not uncommon in rich nations, seventy percent of cancer deaths occur in low- and middle-income regions and countries. The growing frequency of the d… |
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Urban Health (Hardcover) $60.94 The 1980s opened a discussion of the varying nature of health in different segments of the United States. Falling under the rubric of “health disparities,” a great deal of research has been published demonstrating the substantial differences in health … |
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Oral Precancer (Hardcover) $125.77 Oral Precancer is a preeminent new book that compiles recent research on precancer conditions of the oral cavity and their specific application to the dental field. In addition to providing a scientific and evidence-based survey of the disparate source… |
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Health Disparities in Youth and Families (Hardcover) $124.79 Amid its growing diversity and shifting demographics, the U.S. is still home to glaring health inequities by race, ethnicity, and class. Yet while it is customary to identify poverty as their root cause, other complex mechanisms are involved in their p… |
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Geospatial Analysis of Environmental Health (Hardcover) $103.61 This book focuses on a range of geospatial applications for environmental health research, including environmental justice issues, environmental health disparities, air and water contamination, and infectious diseases. Environmental health research … |
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