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The first chapter of Tackling Health Inequalities: Lessons from
International Experiencesprovides an overview of why tackling health
inequalities in wealthy developed nations such as Canada is important. It
considers a variety of explanations of how health inequalities come about
and suggests that the sources of health inequalities are to be found in a
nation?s economic and political systems and how they distribute economic,
political, and social resources among the population.
Chapters 2 to 8 provide descriptions of the health inequalities scene in
Canada and six other wealthy developed nations. The nations have been
chosen on the basis that each has recognized?at least in their policy
documents and statements?the importance of tackling health
inequalities.But these nations differ profoundly in actually tackling them
and achieving results.
Chapter 9 identifies the key themes that emerge across these national case
studies and places them within a political economy framework that
considers how power relationships and differing influences of various
sectors (i.e., labour, business, and civil society) shape public
policy-making related to tackling health inequalities.
Chapter 10 takes these findings and identifies how tackling health
inequalities can be maintained as a public policy priority for nations
already tackling them and moved onto the public policy agenda of the
nations that neglect them.
Tackling Inequalities in Health: Lessons from International Experiences
Foreword by Alex Scott-Samuel
http://www.cspi.org/books/tackling_health_inequalities
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