Table of Contents

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

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"Overall, this volume provides a challenging and thought-provoking treatment of poverty, inequality and health."American Journal of Epidemiology