While women in developing countries continue to die in large numbers in child birth, population and reproductive health … of narrowly directed health programs to a broader approach of health system development and reform. At the same time … knowledge and capacity gap in the Reproductive Health community and provides tools for key actors to empower faster positive …

incorporates information from more than 10,000 datasets relating to population health and mortality, representing one of the … largest syntheses of global information on population health to date. …

The overwhelming evidence of inequalities in health outcomes and in the use of health services calculated and … both understanding the causes of health sector inequalities and developing policies to tackle them. It is time to … vicious circle of income-poverty and ill health. The book presents both a practical set of analytical tools for understanding …