[afro-nets] Health Disparities & The Body Politic

["Claudio Schuftan" <claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn>]

Health Disparities & The Body Politic
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Cross-posted from EQUIDAD@LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG 
From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 

Health Disparities & the Body Politic
A Series of International Symposia
Published by the Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - President and Fellows, Harvard College, 2005

Available for downloading at: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/disparities/book 

".What we today term "health disparities" -- the consistent gap in physical and mental well-being between the most privileged members of society and the most socially and economically disadvantaged -- launched the modern public health movement in the nineteenth century. Yet only in the past two decades have governments begun to focus explicitly on the deep-rooted social determinants of health and disease.

What are governments' responsibilities to reduce these disparities? Should they enact policies extending beyond health agencies to encompass economics, housing, transportation, education, and other sectors? How should national research agendas spotlight the causes of, and solutions to, stark differences in health within a country's population? What data should governments collect to more fully reveal health inequalities? How can these data be used to galvanize action?...."

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Barry R. Bloom 
Introduction -- Nancy Krieger 
Three International Symposia -- Madeline Drexler
1. Spreading the Health: Government's Role in Addressing Health Disparities 
2. Investigating Health Disparities: New Agendas for National Health Research Institutes 
3. Making Disparities Count: From Government Statistics Systems to Action Themes for Action 

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Claudio Schuftan
mailto:claudio@hcmc.netnam.vn