Challenging inequities in health : from ethics to action /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- The social basis of disparities in health
- Ethical dimensions of health equity
- Health equity in a globalizing world
- Measuring disparities in health : method and indicators
- Health equity : perspectives, measurability, and criteria
- China : increasing health gaps in a transitional economy
- Japan : historical and current dimensions of health and health equity
- United States : social inequality and the burden of poor health
- Chile : socioeconomic differentials and mortality in a middle-income nation
- Russia : socioeconomic dimensions of the gender gap in mortality
- Tanzania : gaining insights into adolescent lives and livelihoods
- Gender, health, and equity : the intersctions
- South Africa : addressing the legacy of apartheid
- Kenya : uncovering the social determinants of road traffic accidents
- Bangladesh : an intervention study of factors underlying increasing equity in child survival
- Sweden and Britain : the impact of policy context on inequities in health
- Health care financing : assessing its relationship to health equity
- Mexico : marginality, need, and resource allocation at the county level
- Vietnam : efficient, equity-oriented financial strategies for health
- Developing the policy response to inequities in health : a global perspective