Readership: Public health - Researchers, policy analysts and policy makers from developed and developing countries involved in inequalities in health. Specifically of interest to health economists and those working on global aspects of inequalities in health.
Edited by David Leon, Professor of Epidemiology and Co-director of European Health Societies in Transition, and Gill Walt, Reader in Health Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
"Leon and Walt have edited an excellent reader, which I commend strongly...They contribute excellent chaptures highlighting the need for both a panoramic view and a grasp of the detail. There are also thought provoking contributions from developing countries, making this a genuinely international perspective." - BMJ.com
Leon & Walt: Poverty, inequality and health in international perspective: a divided world? McKee: The health consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union Steckel: Industrialization and health in historical perspective Leon: Common threads: underlying components of inequalities in morality between and within countries Davey Smith et al.: Lifecourse approaches to socio-economic differentials in cause-specific adult mortality Vitora et al.: The impact of health interventions on inequalities: infant and child health in Brazil Lanata: Children's health in developing countries: issues of coping, child neglect and marginalization Kunitz: Social capital: the mixed health effects of personal communities and voluntary groups Macintosh: Do health care systems contribute to inequalities? Murray et al.: Measuring health inequality: challenges and new directions Gwatkin: Poverty and inequalities in health within developing countries: filling the information gap Patel: Poverty, inequality and mental health in developing countries Zwi: Injuries, inequalities and health: from policy vacuum to policy action Macintyre: Inequalities in health: is research gender blind? Graham: From Science to policy: options for reducing health inequalities Mushtaque et al.: Do poverty alleviation programmes reduce inequalities in health? The Bangladesh experience Sen: Economic progress and health
