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. .
Include bibliographical references and index.
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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Poor--Diseases Poor--Medical care Developing countries Poor--Health aspects