A cure for global ills

• Autores: Roman Carrasco, Alex Cook, Richard Coker
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2911, 2013, pág. 28
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Carrasco et al point out the need to set up an international market in ill health to solve the tragedy of child mortality. About 6 million children under 5 die from infectious diseases each year. Most of those deaths occur in low-income countries as a result of diseases that can be prevented cheaply, such as diarrhea, malaria or measles. This tragedy is a result of two fundamental problems in global health: money and support from richer countries are insufficient; and the available funds are often not used efficiently. One important cause is that global health is a public good, and like many other public goods it suffers from the tragedy of the commons.