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Poverty, inequality, and health : an international perspective
- Conferences
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Public Health Forum (9th : 1999)
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- Creator
- edited by David A. Leon and Gill Walt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
- Series
- Physical Details
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- x, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780192631961, 0192631969
- OCLC
- ocm44627046
- Chapters extended and developed from presentations given at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Ninth Public Health Forum, held in Apr. 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Poverty, inequality, and health in international perspective: a divided world? / David A. Leon, Gill Walt -- The health consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union / Martin McKee -- Industrialization and health in historical perspective / Richard H. Steckel -- Common threads: underlying components of inequalities in mortality between and within countries / David A. Leon -- Life-course approaches to socio-economic differentials in cause-specific adult mortality / George Davey Smith, David Gunnell, Yoav Ben-Shlomo -- The impact of health interventions on inequalities: infant and child health in Brazil / Cesar G. Victora, Fernando C. Barros, J. Patrick Vaughan -- Children's health in developing countries: issues of coping, child neglect, and marginalization / Claudio F. Lanata -- Accounts of social capital: the mixed health effects of personal communities and voluntary groups / Stephen J. Kunitz -- Do health care systems contribute to inequalities? / Maureen Mackintosh -- Measuring health inequality: challenges and new directions / Christopher J.L. Murray, Julio Frenk, Emmanuela E. Gakidou -- Poverty and inequalities in health within developing countries: filling the information gap / Davidson R. Gwatkin -- Poverty, inequality, and mental health in developing countries / Vikram Patel -- Injuries, inequalities, and health: from policy vacuum to policy action / Anthony Zwi -- Inequalities in health: is research gender blind? / Sally Macintyre -- From science to policy: options for reducing health inequalities / Hilary Graham -- Do poverty alleviation programmes reduce inequities in health? The Bangladesh experience / A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya -- Economic progress and health / Amartya Sen
Subjects
- Medical Indigency.
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- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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- Developing Countries.
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- Health Services Accessibility.
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- Poverty.
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- Global Health.
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- Socioeconomic Factors.
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- Poor -- Medical care -- Cross-cultural studies.
- Poor -- Diseases -- Cross-cultural studies.
- Poor -- Medical care -- Developing countries -- Cross-cultural studies.
- Poor -- Developing countries -- Health aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.