Health, Economic Development and Household Poverty: From Understanding to Action (Routledge International Studies in Health Economics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415493749 ISBN 13: 9780415493741

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

Accessible and edited by authors based at a top institution, this book provides readers with an excellent summary in an easy-to-read style of this burgeoning field of research.

In this volume Bennett, Gilson and Mills have gathered together essays written by academics and experts in the fields of health policy and economic development, each underscoring the need for political commitment to meet the needs of the poor and the development of strategies to build this commitment, covering:

• evidence regarding the links between health, economic development and household poverty
• evidence on the extent to which health care systems address the needs of the poor and the near poor
• innovative measures to make health care interventions widely available to the poor.

Current and topical, this book is of great relevance to policy makers and practitioners in the field of international health and development and researchers engaged with global health and poverty as well as being ideal reading for students of international health and development.

About this title

About the Author

Sara Bennett is the Manager of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, based at the World Health Organization. Lucy Gilson is Professor of Health Policy and Systems at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Associate Professor at the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Anne Mills is Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415493749
• ISBN 13: 9780415493741
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Bennett Sara, Gilson Lucy, Mills Anne