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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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