Democracy

Why Democracies Don’t Get Cholera

On: October 25, 2010

In: Americas, Cholera, Commentary, Democracy, Disasters and displaced populations, Environment, Haiti, Health, Health care access, Internally Displaced People, Public Health, Water

Amartya Sen famously said that famines do not occur in well-run, democratic countries. The same is almost always true for cholera epidemics.

Amartya Sen famously said that famines do not occur i…Continue Reading