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Health Inequalities and Infectious Disease Epidemics: A Challenge for Global Health Security
(2014)
In today's global society, infectious disease outbreaks can spread quickly across the world, fueled by the rapidity with which we travel across borders and continents. Historical accounts of influenza pandemics and ...
What does universal health coverage mean?
(The Lancet, 2014)
Group inequality and intersectionality
(E-Bulletin of the Human Development & Capability Association, 2014-07)
Piketty’s Inequality Story in Six Charts
(The New Yorker, 2014)
Income inequality and schizophrenia: Increased schizophrenia incidence in countries with high levels of income inequality
(2014-03)
Background—Income inequality is associated with numerous negative health outcomes. There is evidence that ecological level socio-environmental factors may increase risk for schizophrenia. Aims—The aim was to investigate ...
Achieving equity within universal health coverage: a narrative review of progress and resources for measuring success
(2014)
Introduction: Equity should be implicit within universal health coverage (UHC) however, emerging evidence is showing that without adequate focus on measurement of equity, vulnerable populations may continue to receive ...
The political origins of health inequity: prospects for change
(The Lancet, 2014-02-11)
Despite large gains in health over the past few decades, the distribution of health risks worldwide remains extremely and unacceptably uneven. Although the health sector has a crucial role in addressing health inequalities, ...
Health care systems in low- and middle-income countries
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2014-02-06)
This review draws on what is now quite an extensive literature on the deficiencies of health care systems and on the Health Systems Evidence database. However, the poor quality and uneven coverage of evidence on the ...
Beating the Middle-Income Trap in Southeast Asia
(The Heritage Foundation, 2014)
Since 2000, Southeast Asia has had some of the fastest growing economies in the world. Indonesia’s economy has enjoyed 6 percent annual growth—but will its lack of infrastructure and its commodity dependence soon reveal ...
Is There a Southeast Asian Development Model?
(Department of International Economic Policy Institute for Economic Research University of Freiburg, 2014)
The 10 states of Southeast Asia have combined to form the developing world’s most successful and durable regional grouping, the Association of Southeast Asian Na-tions, ASEAN. Economic integration among them is high and ...