Poverty, inequality and health : an international perspective /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. |
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| Description: | x , 358 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford medical publications. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4393743 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Poverty, inequality, and health in international perspective: a divided world?, Leon and Walt
- 2. The health consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union
- 3. Industrialization and health in historical perspective
- 4. Common threads: underlying components of inequalities in morality between and within countries
- 5. Life-course approaches to socio-economic differentials in cause-specific adult mortality
- 6. The impact of health interventions on inequalities: infant and child health in Brazil
- 7. Children's health in developing countries: issues of coping, child neglect, and marginalization
- 8. Accounts of social capital: the mixed health effects of personal communities and voluntary groups
- 9. Do health care systems contribute to inequalities?
- 10. Measuring health inequality: challenges and new directions
- 11. Poverty and inequalities in health within developing countries: filling the information gap
- 12. Poverty, inequality, and mental health in developing countries
- 13. Injuries, inequalities, and health: from policy vacuum to policy action
- 14. Inequalities in health: is research gender blind?
- 15. From Science to policy: options for reducing health inequalities
- 16. Do poverty alleviation programmes reduce inequities in health? The Bangladesh experience
- 17. Economic progress and health
- Index
