Health Disparities & the Body Politic: A Series of International Symposia
Published by the Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - President and Fellows, Harvard College, 2005

Freely available for downloading at:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/disparities/book

What we today term "health disparities" -- the consistent gap in physical
and mental well-being between the most privileged members of society and
the most socially and economically disadvantaged -- launched the modern
public health movement in the nineteenth century. Yet only in the past two
decades have governments begun to focus explicitly on the deep-rooted
social determinants of health and disease.

In the spring of 2005, the Working Group on Health Disparities at the
Harvard School of Public Health held three international symposia
addressing these timely issues. Featuring senior governmental public health
leaders and academic researchers from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Western
and Northern Europe, as well as Canada and the US, the symposia explored
both the successes and limitations of current policy approaches. By
fostering frank cross-cultural discussion, the series also sought to
inspire action on one of today's most urgent public health problems. As
Barry R. Bloom, Ph.D., Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, summed
it up, health disparities "perturb the consciences of people within the
country and around the world."
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