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Challenging inequities in health : from ethics to action /
This text provides a unique view of global inequities in health status and health sytems. Emphasizing socioeconomic conditions, it combines chapters on conceptual and measurement issues with case studies from around the world.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Timothy Evans ... (et al.)
- Social basis of disparities in health / Finn Diderichsen, Timothy Evans, Margaret Whitehead
- Ethical dimensions of health equity / Fabienne Peter, Timothy Evans
- Health equity in a globalizing world / Lincoln C. Chen, Giovanni Berlinguer
- Measuring disparities in health: methods and indicators / Sudhir Anand ... (et al.)
- Health equity: perspectives, measurability, and criteria / Amartya Sen
- China: increasing health gaps in a transitional economy / Yuanli Liu ... (et al.)
- Japan: historical and current dimensions of health and health equity / Toshihiko Hasegawa
- United States: social inequality and the burden of poor health / Laura D. Kubzansky ... (et al.)
- Chile: socioeconomic differentials and mortality in a middle-income nation / Jeanette Vega ... (et al).
- Russia: socioeconomic dimensions of the gender gap in mortality / Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Mark G. Field, Evgueniy M. Andreev
- Tanzania: gaining insights into adolescent lives and livelihoods / Vinand M. Nantulya ... (et al.)
- Gender, health, and equity: intersetions / Piroska Ostlin, Asha George, Gita Sen
- South Africa: addressing the legacy of apartheid / Lucy Gilson, Di McIntyre
- Kenya: uncovering the social determinants of road traffic accidents / Vinand M. Nantulya, Florence Muli-Musiime
- Bangladesh: an intervention study of factors underlying increasing equity in child survival / Abbas Bhuiya ... (et al.)
- Sweden and Britain: the impact of policy context on inequities in health / Fin Diderichsen ... (et al.).
- Health care financing: assessing its relationship to health equity / William C. Hsiao, Yuanli Liu
- Mexico: marginality, need, and resource allocation at the county level / Rafael Lozano ... (et al.)
- Vietnam: efficient, equity-oriented financial strategies for health / Pham Manh Hung ... (et al.)
- Developing the policy response to inequities in health: a global perspective / Margaret Whitehead.