Poverty, inequality and health : an international perspective / edited by David A. Leon and Gill Walt.

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Ninth Public Health Forum, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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