Poverty, inequality and health : an international perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Public Health Forum
Other Authors: Leon, David A., Walt, Gillian
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Series:Oxford medical publications.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Poverty, inequality, and health in international perspective : a divided world?
  • The health consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union
  • Industrialization and health in historical perspective
  • Common threads : underlying components of inequalities in mortality between and within countries
  • Life-course approaches to socio-economic differentials in cause-specific adult mortality
  • The impact of health interventions on inequalities : infant and child health in Brazil
  • Children's health in developing countries : issues of coping, child neglect, and marginalization
  • Accounts of social capital : the mixed health effects of personal communities and voluntary groups
  • Do health care systems contribute to inequalities
  • Measuring health inequality : challenges and new directions
  • Poverty and inequalities in health within developing countries : filling the information gap
  • Poverty, inequality, and mental health in developing countries
  • Injuries, inequalities, and health : from policy vacuum to policy action
  • Inequalities in health : is research gender blind?
  • From science to policy : options for reducing health inequalities
  • Do poverty alleviation programmes reduce inequalities in health? The Bangladesh experience
  • Economic progress and health