title: Poverty and health ethics in developing countries.
abstract: Developing countries face difficulties of exploitation, dehumanisation and lack of ethical professionalism, to an extent that developed countries do not encounter. Poverty-related difficulties include lack of infrastructure, unreasonable dominance of defence-related expenses in the budget, lack of a sufficient number of health care providers, absence of accountability for serious medical malpractice, as well as exploitation of patients in pharmaceutical trials. This country report presents the case of Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world and therefore a good example for the deplorable condition of the health sector in developing countries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Dhaka.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Begum
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D001459:Bangladesh; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics; D003906:Developing Countries; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice; D011203:Poverty; D012941:Social Responsibility