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T1 Awakening hippocrates: A primer on health, poverty, and global service
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2007
FD August 1
VO 161
IS 8
SP 813
OP 814
DO 10.1001/archpedi.161.8.813
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.161.8.813
AB 
The book is divided into 2 sections: the first aimed at understanding disparities in global health and the second providing short biographies of health professionals who have challenged the status quo. Its companion book, A Practical Guide to Global Health Service, profiles organizations that place health service volunteers. Part 1 of Awakening Hippocrates, “Understanding Global Disparities in Health,” explores poverty, both absolute and relative, and the effect it has on health. The reader is introduced to the idea of “structural violence”: that the poor of the world have shorter, harder, and “sicker” lives not as a result of chance or individual will but of human design in the form of choices made in allocation of resources. This is followed by a brief history of the meteoric rise in medical and public health advances in the industrialized, wealthy world that have resulted in a striking increase in life expectancy. O’Neil then frames the remainder of the book with the question: “How have some of these health gains spread to the developing world, while others have not?”