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- Title
Neglected Tropical Diseases: Creating a New Disease Grouping.
- Authors
Vanderslott, Samantha
- Abstract
Neglected tropical diseases show how a disease group can be formed to compete in the global health policy marketplace. The naming and branding of a new disease category is used to organize activities, direct attention and resources, and rationalize the governance of diseases. The politics of classification involves processes of negotiation and conceptual development by key actors. Here, discussions about central characteristics, naming, and inclusion and exclusion criteria are rarely settled. Contradictions are present in the "tropical" and "neglected" characterizations, as well as choices of universalist rather than particularist approaches. Interacting with these considerations is a continued progression in means of dealing with disease from health actors and changing attributes of diseases in populations.
- Subjects
TROPICAL medicine; HEALTH policy; DISEASES; WORLD health; SOCIAL choice; NEGLECTED diseases
- Publication
Nature & Culture, 2020, Vol 15, Issue 1, p78
- ISSN
1558-6073
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/nc.2020.150105