anthropologists and public health workers. However, structural adjustment programs (SAPs) are the practical tools used by … public health. But the stories that anthropologists tell from the field overwhelmingly speak to a new intensity of … history of structural adjustment, and then presents anthropological analyses of adjustment and public health. The first …

In the United States the delivery of health care traditionally has been hierarchical and strictly controlled by … support and eventually was repudiated, and physicians embraced – at least in theory – a more patient-centered conception of … health care …

Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health … care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a … synonymous with reducing inequalities in health, we also consider the much richer variety of concepts employed by philosophers …