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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:47:14 -0500
Subject: [spiritof1848] WHO & Inequalities in Health (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:19:34 +0000
From: "Dave Gordon, School for Policy Studies" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: WHO & Inequalities in Health
The current issue of the Bulletin of the World Health
Organization is devoted to Poverty and Inequalities in
health and is available free of charge at;
http://www.who.int/bulletin/tableofcontents/2000/vol.78no.1.html
(details are below).
In the editorial Richard Feachem, the Bulletin's
editor-in-chief. Argues that "There is much evidence that
public subsidies -- be they for health, education, water,
power, food or whatever -- intended to promote equity and
benefit the poor are largely captured by the non-poor,
especially by the middle classes,". Davidson Gwatkin
from the World Bank, contends that health policy should
aim directly at improving conditions among the poorest
groups and at reducing the differences between those
groups and others in society. (If only the World Bank
would practice what they preached!)
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
The International Journal of Public Health
Volume 78, Number 1, Bulletin 2000, 1-152.
Editorials
Poverty and inequity: a proper focus for the new
century by Richard G.A. Feachem:
vol.78, no.1, 1. [Full text PDF]
Special Theme - Inequalities in Health
Critical Reflection: Health inequalities and the
health of the poor: What do we know?
What can we do? by D.R. Gwatkin: vol.78, no.1, 3-18.
[Full text PDF]
Socioeconomic inequalities in child mortality:
comparisons across nine developing
countries by Adam Wagstaff: vol.78, no.1, 19-29.
[Full text PDF]
Inequality of child mortality among ethnic groups in
sub-Saharan Africa by M.
Brockerhoff & P. Hewett: vol.78, no.1, 30-41. [Full
text PDF]
Defining and measuring health inequality: an approach
based on the distribution of
health expectancy by E.E. Gakidou, C.J.L. Murray, &
J. Frenk: vol.78, no.1, 42-54. [Full text
PDF]
Inequalities in health care use and expenditures:
empirical data from eight developing
countries and countries in transition by M. Makinen,
H. Waters, M. Rauch, N.
Almagambetova, R. Bitran, L. Gilson, D. McIntyre, S.
Pannarunothai, A.L. Prieto, G. Ubilla,
& S. Ram: vol.78, no.1, 55-65. [Full text PDF]
Public spending on health care in Africa: do the poor
benefit? by F. Castro-Leal, J.
Dayton, L. Demery, & K. Mehra: vol.78, no.1, 66-74.
[Full text PDF]
Round Table Discussion by Donald Acheson; George A.O.
Alleyne; Juan Antonio Casas &
Carlos Castillo-Salgado; Michèle Barzach; Paula
Braveman; G ran Dahlgren; Geeta Rao
Gupta; Yuanli Liu; va Orosz: vol.78, no.1, 75-85.
[Full text PDF]
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Dave Gordon
Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research
University of Bristol
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in helpless misery,
That country must be ill-policed and wretchedly governed:
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
-- Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1770
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