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Poverty, inequality and health : an international perspective
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Poverty, inequality and health : an international perspective

Author: David A Leon; Gillian Walt
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Series: Oxford medical publications.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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