Dear Colleagues
Attached information on a publication from the WHO Regional Office for
Europe which may be of interest
Best wishes
David McDaid
LSE Health and Social Care


Health systems confront poverty
Edited by: Erio Ziglio, Rogerio Barbosa, Yves Charpak, Steve Turner
Public Health Case Studies, No. 1
2003, xii + 176 pages
English, French, German and Russian
ISBN 92 890 1369 9
Sw.fr. 40.-
Order no. 1340048
Health systems have done and are doing much to tackle the complex and
daunting problem of poverty and health. This book describes 12 initiatives
already undertaken in 10 WHO Member States: Croatia, France, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian
Federation and the United Kingdom. It documents WHO's preliminary findings
on how health systems can help to alleviate poverty, and reaches three main
conclusions: that these systems can take effective action to improve the
health of the poor, that they can sometimes represent an additional barrier
for the poor and that more knowledge, training and capacity building in
this area are urgently needed. It is hoped that the information presented
here will contribute to WHO's efforts to help countries across the length
and breadth of Europe improve health and increase equity by tackling
poverty and its effects on health.
Available on-line at
http://www.euro.who.int/InformationSources/Publications/Catalogue/20030814_1

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