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World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development
(World Bank Publications, 2005)
The World Development Report 2006: Equity and Opportunitypresents a social development strategy organized around the themes of social inclusion, cohesion, and accountability. It examines equality of opportunities--a ...
10 best resources on ... health equity
(Oxford University Press in association with The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2007)
An astute bureaucratic pundit named Rufus Miles once observed that ‘where you stand depends on where you sit’ (Miles 1978). This ‘Miles Law’ deserves to be kept centrally in mind when considering not only traditional ...
Challenging inequities in health : from ethics to action : summary
(Oxford University Press, New York, 2001)
Challenging Inequities in Health, was conceived as a response to the following: 1. Concerns about widening “health gaps” both between and within countries; 2. A disproportionate research focus on inequalities in health in ...
Social innovation: what it is, why it matters and how it can be accelerated
(Young Foundation, 2007)
This report examines how social innovation happens in NGOs, the public sector, movements, networks and markets. It presents an analysis of the history, the theory and the process, paving a way for social innovation to play ...
Indigenous health part 2: the underlying causes of the health gap
(The Lancet, 2009)
Fostering Health Equity: Clinical and Research Training Strategies from Nursing Education
(The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2009)
Racism, ethnocentrism, segregation, stereotyping, and classism are tightly linked to health equity and social determinants of health. They lead to lack of power, money, resources, and education which may result in poor ...
Chapter 34 Equity in health care finance and delivery
(Handbook of Health Economics, 2000)
The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most part, on empirical work, especially that involving intemational and temporal comparisons. There is, ...
Equity Action Framework
(Race forward, 2009)
Human Rights and Capabilities
(Journal of Human Development, 2005-07)
The two concepts — human rights and capabilities — go well with each other, so long as we do not try to subsume either concept entirely within the territory of the other. There are many human rights that can be seen as ...