| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Contents |
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Photograph credits; Introduction; Poverty and health: an overview of selected case studies in WHO European Member States; Poverty and health case studies: an analytical framework; Case study 1: Tackling cultural barriers to health care service delivery in Croatia; Case study 2: Couverture maladie universelle: reaching the poorest in France; Case study 3: The Mainz Model: bringing health care to the homeless; Case study 4: Health care and social reintegration of the poor: exploring new pathways in Buda Hills, Hungary |
| Summary |
Annotation Health care systems across the WHO European Region have done and are doing much to tackle the complex and daunting problem of poverty and health. This book describes 12 initiatives already undertaken in 10 WHO member states. It documents WHO's preliminary findings on how health care systems can help to alleviate poverty, and reaches three main conclusions: health care systems can indeed take effective action to improve the health of the poor; sometimes health care systems can actually represent an additional barrier for the poor and there is an urgent need for more knowledge, training and capacity-building in this area |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9289013982 |
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9789289013987 |
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