This paper provides a selective survey of the literature to date on poverty, equity and health outcomes. It begins with … an overview of the methods that can be used to measure poor/non-poor inequalities in health outcomes, and then reviews … understanding the causes of poor/non-poor inequalities in health outcomes, distinguishing between the effects of inequalities in the …

Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not … all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review … what is known about policies that may improve the health of the poor. We focus primarily on the modern-day United States …

health and considers other aspects of global health that are rarely given attention, such as poverty, wars, humanitarian … population health, poverty, and malnutrition. Solutions are examined via primary health care strategies, poverty alleviation …"This book is constructed around three essential questions: Why is population health so poor in developing countries …