Challenging Inequities in Health: From Ethics to Action - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019513740X ISBN 13: 9780195137408

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

Synopsis

The Rockefeller Foundation, NY. Student and non-specialist text relaying the results of research conducted by the Global Health Equity Initiative. Describes the current health divide and determines and examines causes. Offers strategies for reducing the consequences of ill health and the building of more equitable health care plans. Softcover, hardcover also available.

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Review:

Students and researchers will find the book a treasure chest of overviews and syntheses. (Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 80 (2))

A unique view of global inequities. (CAB Abstracts)

Synopsis:

There is a growing sense that the "health gap" between socioeconomic groups is getting worse in many countries. To address this gap, conceptual clarity and empirical evidence are needed along with a greater focus on equity in policy-making. This book is designed to present cutting-edge research and policy analysis to a wide non-specialist readership of students, professionals and policy-makers. It brings together in one volume new perspectives on the conceptual foundations of health equity, empirical evidence on the scale and nature of he inequities in health in twelve countries around the world, and assessments of the associated policy developments and their implications for the future. It aims to help build global capacity to measure, monitor and interpret developments in health equity at a national and international level. The in-depth country analyses draw on epidemiology, demography, economics and other fields to approach health inequalities from several different angles. The topics covered range from adolescent livelihoods in Tanzania to the health burden of indigenous peoples in Mexico, from health equity in Japan to the gender gap in life expectancy in Russia.

The book is a unique demonstration of global cooperation in bringing together and giving equal weight to work on health equity carried out in the southern and northern hemispheres.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 019513740X
• ISBN 13: 9780195137408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Evans Timothy