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Combating poverty and inequality: structural change, social policy and politics
(United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2010)
Poverty reduction is a central feature of the international development agenda and contemporary poverty reduction strategies increasingly focus on “targeting the poor”, yet poverty and inequality remain intractable ...
Child Poverty and Inequality: New Perspectives
(2012)
The 21st century starts with vast inequalities for children in terms of income, access to food, water, health, education, housing, or employment for their families. Half of the world’s children are below the poverty line ...
Equity Action Framework
(2017)
Th e Equity Action Framework1 is designed to support individuals and groups that want to advance racial equity
in early childhood systems. Th e goal of a racial equity approach is to develop policies, practices, and ...
Re-thinking health inequalities
(Oxford University Press on behalf of The European Journal of Public Health, 2020-06-19)
Reaching for Health Equity
(US CDC, 2016)
Piketty’s Inequality Story in Six Charts
(The New Yorker, 2014)
Health inequalities: critical perspectives
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
This section provides a brief summary of the main ways in which health in-equalities are conceptualized, particularly in terms of the indicators used to stratify health. It is by no means a comprehensive account but rather ...
Regional strategy on health system strengthening and primary health care
(Manila : WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2010)
The political origins of health inequity: prospects for change
(The Lancet - University of Oslo Commission on Global
Governance for Health, 2014)
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, ...
The Normative Dimensions of Health Disparities
(Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, 2013)
Understanding what conditions must be satisfied for a health inequality to be a health inequity (disparity) is crucial for health policy makers. The failure to understand what constitutes a health inequity, and confusing ...