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| Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies Études transculturelles |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David A Leon; Gillian Walt |
| ISBN: | 0192631969 9780192631961 |
| OCLC Number: | 44627046 |
| Notes: | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Ninth Public Health Forum, 2001. |
| Description: | x , 358 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 exoperience / A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya -- Economic progress and health / Amartya Sen. |
| Series Title: | Oxford medical publications. |
| Responsibility: | edited by David A. Leon and Gill Walt. |
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- Pauvres -- Maladies -- Études transculturelles.
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- Pauvres -- Pays en voie de développement -- Études transculturelles.
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- Gesundheit.
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