Blue marble health: a call for papers

PLoS Med. 2014 Jul 29;11(7):e1001682. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001682. eCollection 2014 Jul.

Abstract

In this month's editorial, Peter J. Hotez, Co-Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases and Larry Peiperl, Chief Editor of PLOS Medicine, call for papers on “Blue Marble Health”: research on health problems that affect poorer people irrespective of the overall economic strength of the countries in which they live.

Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Communicable Disease Control* / economics
  • Communicable Diseases / economics
  • Communicable Diseases / epidemiology
  • Global Health*
  • Health Policy
  • Humans
  • Neglected Diseases / economics
  • Neglected Diseases / epidemiology
  • Neglected Diseases / prevention & control*
  • Periodicals as Topic*
  • Socioeconomic Factors

Grants and funding

LP is paid a salary by the Public Library of Science, and he wrote this editorial during his salaried time.