central support away from local health units, are creating inequalities in access while not bettering the quality of offered … services, (iii) rurality and poverty are closely connected to each other and to restricted health access, either due to limited …Vietnam has dealt historically with health as a valuable asset, a resource that was distributed in an equal manner to …

Foreword -- Introduction to urban poverty and health inequalities -- Greed verses need : historical tensions in …, penal welfare and ill health -- Homelessness : the sharp edge of urban poverty -- Addressing urban poverty and health … responses to urban poverty -- Mediating urban poverty : from the war on poverty to poverty porn -- Experiences of urban poverty …

Background: Poor health increases the likelihood of experiencing poverty by reducing a person’s ability to work and … imparting costs associated with receiving medical treatment. Universal health care is a means of protecting against the … households out-of-pocket for healthcare, identify any inequalities in the distribution of this expenditure, and to describe the …

health ; Immigration status and health inequality : the case of transplant -- Health care inequality. The US health care … system : separate and unequal ; The poison pill : health insurance in America -- The cure. Community efficacy and the death … critical--their health. The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other …