Authors:

  • Jane Nelson

Excerpt

While health conditions have improved for millions of people around the world over the past few decades, vast numbers of men, women and children are still dying from preventable causes, enduring the debilitating effects of treatable physical and mental ailments, facing destitution as a result of medical bills or lost incomes resulting from illness and injury, and dealing with social stigma and isolation resulting from fear and ignorance about certain diseases.

Citations

Nelson, Jane. "Business as a Partner in Strengthening Public Health Systems in Developing Countries: An Agenda for Action." Research Report No. 13. CSR Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, 2006.