MISC> Medical Research in Affluent Countries Focuses on Diseases Predominant in Affluent Countries
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- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:34:36 -0600
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From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:23:20 -0500 (EST)
ARTICLE: Medical Research in Affluent Countries Focuses on Diseases
Predominant in Affluent Countries
This article highlights in an age of instantaneous global communication
the disparity between the medical knowledge available to and the research
relevant to the medical needs of developed as opposed to lesser developed
countries.
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Modern Technology Unplugged
Bio IT World
http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/021003/horizons_modern.html
THE CANADIAN WRITER Marshall McLuhan suggested that modern communications
technologies have united people in ways that were previously
inconceivable. News of an earthquake in South America or a scientific
breakthrough in Europe that once took years to travel across continents
is now known almost instantaneously around the world.
But as science and technology have brought together rich and poor across
the globe, they also have ways to keep them firmly apart. The gap between
the "knowledge rich" and the "knowledge poor" continues to grow. More than
95 percent of the world's research is performed in developed nations.
Similarly, 90 percent of the world's expenditure on medical research is
spent on diseases that are of most concern to only 10 percent of the
world's population.
Modern technology certainly holds part of the solution to this knowledge
gap. Developing countries need access to scientific and technical
information as much as developed countries, and communications technology
especially electronic publishing and the Internet can dramatically reduce
the cost of that access compared to traditional printed information.
<snip>
Equally important is the need, first, to equip developing countries with
the ability to use that information and, second, to enable them to
communicate it effectively.
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Full Story May Be Read at the URL Above.
David Dillard Research Librarian
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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