Challenging inequities in health : from ethics to action /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Evans, Timothy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
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