Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
An International Perspective
Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-263196-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Poverty, Inequality and Health: An International Perspective raises new and critical issues about health inequalities. It is unique in that it provides the first truly international perspective on this problem, with contributions from the developed and developing world. The outcome of a Public Health Forum organised by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, this book brings together material from internationally recognised contributors from a wide range of disciplines and countries. The chapters reflect this diversity, ranging from the micro- to the macro-level, from aetiology to intervention. Topics covered include: the over-arching concepts linking economic and social forces and health status the extent to which ethical concerns lie at the heart of the issue of inequalities in health and attempts to ameliorate them; macro-level features of inequalities in health within and between countries; an overview of the main body of work on inequalities in health in developed countries and those in transition within Europe; specific pathways and mechanisms at the individual level that link poverty and inequality to health status; the interaction of social and biological influences on health status throughout life; specific disease-specific links; and issues of policy and interventions aimed at reducing inequalities in health. The book brings together people from very varied disciplines to discuss an area of clear international interest and global importance. As such it will be of value to the broad public health audience as well as research epidemiologists, international policy analysts and policy makers and those concerned with economic development and health.
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- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
Weitere Infos & Material
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- The health consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union
- Industrialization and health in historical perspective
- Common threads: underlying components of inequalities in morality between and within countries
- Lifecourse approaches to socio-economic differentials in cause-specific adult mortality
- The impact of health interventions on inequalities: infant and child health in Brazil
- Children's health in developing countries: issues of coping, child neglect and marginalization
- Social capital: the mixed health effects of personal communities and voluntary groups
- Do health care systems contribute to inequalities?
- Measuring health inequality: challenges and new directions
- Poverty and inequalities in health within developing countries: filling the information gap
- Poverty, inequality and mental health in developing countries
- Injuries, inequalities and health: from policy vacuum to policy action
- Inequalities in health: is research gender blind?
- From Science to policy: options for reducing health inequalities
- Do poverty alleviation programmes reduce inequalities in health? The Bangladesh experience
- Economic progress and health
