----- Original Message ----- From: d.raphael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 7:33 AM Subject: [spiritof1848] WHO & Inequalities in Health (fwd) > Forwarded Message: > From: Nancy Krieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:47:14 -0500 > Subject: [spiritof1848] WHO & Inequalities in Health (fwd) > To: Spirit of 1848 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: nancy krieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > fyi ... > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:19:34 +0000 > From: "Dave Gordon, School for Policy Studies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: WHO & Inequalities in Health > > The current issue of the Bulletin of the World Health > Organization is devoted to Poverty and Inequalities in > health and is available free of charge at; > > http://www.who.int/bulletin/tableofcontents/2000/vol.78no.1.html > > (details are below). > > In the editorial Richard Feachem, the Bulletin's > editor-in-chief. Argues that "There is much evidence that > public subsidies -- be they for health, education, water, > power, food or whatever -- intended to promote equity and > benefit the poor are largely captured by the non-poor, > especially by the middle classes,". Davidson Gwatkin > from the World Bank, contends that health policy should > aim directly at improving conditions among the poorest > groups and at reducing the differences between those > groups and others in society. (If only the World Bank > would practice what they preached!) > > > Bulletin of the World Health Organization > The International Journal of Public Health > Volume 78, Number 1, Bulletin 2000, 1-152. > > Editorials > > Poverty and inequity: a proper focus for the new > century by Richard G.A. Feachem: > vol.78, no.1, 1. [Full text PDF] > > > Special Theme - Inequalities in Health > > Critical Reflection: Health inequalities and the > health of the poor: What do we know? > What can we do? by D.R. Gwatkin: vol.78, no.1, 3-18. > [Full text PDF] > > Socioeconomic inequalities in child mortality: > comparisons across nine developing > countries by Adam Wagstaff: vol.78, no.1, 19-29. > [Full text PDF] > > Inequality of child mortality among ethnic groups in > sub-Saharan Africa by M. > Brockerhoff & P. Hewett: vol.78, no.1, 30-41. [Full > text PDF] > > Defining and measuring health inequality: an approach > based on the distribution of > health expectancy by E.E. Gakidou, C.J.L. Murray, & > J. Frenk: vol.78, no.1, 42-54. [Full text > PDF] > > Inequalities in health care use and expenditures: > empirical data from eight developing > countries and countries in transition by M. Makinen, > H. Waters, M. Rauch, N. > Almagambetova, R. Bitran, L. Gilson, D. McIntyre, S. > Pannarunothai, A.L. Prieto, G. Ubilla, > & S. Ram: vol.78, no.1, 55-65. [Full text PDF] > > Public spending on health care in Africa: do the poor > benefit? by F. Castro-Leal, J. > Dayton, L. Demery, & K. Mehra: vol.78, no.1, 66-74. > [Full text PDF] > > Round Table Discussion by Donald Acheson; George A.O. > Alleyne; Juan Antonio Casas & > Carlos Castillo-Salgado; Michèle Barzach; Paula > Braveman; G ran Dahlgren; Geeta Rao > Gupta; Yuanli Liu; va Orosz: vol.78, no.1, 75-85. > [Full text PDF] > > ---------------------- > Dave Gordon > Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research > University of Bristol > 8 Priory Road > Bristol BS8 1TZ, UK > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (44)-(117)-954 6761 > Fax: (44)-(117)-954 6756 > > > > Visit our Web Sites for information and reports from all of our Quality of Life > Projects! > http://www.utoronto.ca/qol http://www.utoronto.ca/seniors > > ****************************************************************** > Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish > in helpless misery, > That country must be ill-policed and wretchedly governed: > A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. > > -- Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1770 > ****************************************************************** > > Dennis Raphael, Ph.D. > Associate Professor and Associate Director, > Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion > Department of Public Health Sciences > Graduate Department of Community Health > University of Toronto > McMurrich Building, Room 101 > Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A8 > voice: (416) 978-7567 > fax: (416) 978-2087 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > >
