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 …

. Disparities in access to care and health outcomes between the Roma and the rest of the population are large. Moreover, the health …Despite improvements over the past few decades, Slovak health outcomes remains poor compared with most other OECD … and widely perceived mismanagement of public health-care spending. Health-care spending is currently about in line with …