Poverty Inequality and Health: An international Perspective/ edited by David Leon and Gill Walt - New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. - x,358p. - Oxford medical publications. .

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1.Poverty, inequality, and health in international perspective: a divided world? / David A. Leon, Gill Walt --
2.The health consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union / Martin McKee --
3.Industrialization and health in historical perspective / Richard H. Steckel --
4.Common threads: underlying components of inequalities in mortality between and within countries / David A. Leon --
5.Life-course approaches to socio-economic differentials in cause-specific adult mortality / George Davey Smith, David Gunnell, Yoav Ben-Shlomo --
6.The impact of health interventions on inequalities: infant and child health in Brazil / Cesar G. Victora, Fernando C. Barros, J. Patrick Vaughan --
7.Children's health in developing countries: issues of coping, child neglect, and marginalization / Claudio F. Lanata --
8.Accounts of social capital: the mixed health effects of personal communities and voluntary groups / Stephen J. Kunitz --
9.Do health care systems contribute to inequalities? / Maureen Mackintosh --
10.Measuring health inequality: challenges and new directions / Christopher J.L. Murray, Julio Frenk, Emmanuela E. Gakidou --
11.Poverty and inequalities in health within developing countries: filling the information gap / Davidson R. Gwatkin --
12.Poverty, inequality, and mental health in developing countries / Vikram Patel --
13.Injuries, inequalities, and health: from policy vacuum to policy action / Anthony Zwi --
14.Inequalities in health: is research gender blind? / Sally Macintyre --
15.From science to policy: options for reducing health inequalities / Hilary Graham --
16.Do poverty alleviation programmes reduce inequities in health? The Bangladesh exoperience / A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya --
17.Economic progress and health / Amartya Sen.

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