Research Catalog

Title

Challenging inequities in health : from ethics to action / edited by Timothy Evans ... [et al.].

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Evans, Timothy.

Description

xvi, 348 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Subject

• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Delivery of Health Care
• Ethics, Medical
• Health Care Reform
• Health Promotion
• Health promotion > Moral and ethical aspects > Miscellanea
• Medical ethics > Miscellanea
• Public Health
• Public health > Moral and ethical aspects > Miscellanea
• Socioeconomic Factors

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 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.

ISBN

• 0195137396
• 019513740X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00062395^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library