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CONTENT; FOREWORD; PREFACE; CONTRIBUTORS; CHAPTER 1 Measurements and Indicators: Definitions, Concepts and Examples; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. STATISTICAL VALUES; 3. MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY; 4. MATERNAL MORTALITY; 5. STRATEGIES AND EVALUATION; 6. EQUITY: DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS; 7. CONFLICT INTERSET; 8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 9. REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2 Health Risks: Illustrating the Link between Social Determinants, Health Equity and Development; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. HEALTH RISKS; 3. CONFLICT INTERSET; 4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 5. REFERENCES |
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CHAPTER 3 A Decade of Equity: A Selection of Recent Bibliography on Equity and Social Determinants of Health1. INTRODUCTION; 2. DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS; 3. SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; 4. DISEASES & EQUITY; 5. CHILD HEALTH & EQUITY; 6. MATERNAL HEALTH, VIOLENCE, AND HEALTH EQUITY; 7. GEOGRAPHIC DISPARITIES & HEALTH EQUITY; 8. MIGRANTS AND HEALTH EQUITY; 9. HEALTH AND EQUITY FINANCE; 10. MORE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR READING; 11. CONFLICT INTERSET; 12. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 13. REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4 Equity and Disease Burden; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. HEALTH INEQUITY: A GLOBAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL PROBLEM |
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3. HEALTH INEQUITY BETWEEN COUNTRIES4. HEALTH INEQUITY WITHIN COUNTRIES; 5. CONCLUSION; 6. CONFLICT INTERSET; 7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 8. REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5 Obesity and Diabetes; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. DIABETES: A SILENT EPIDEMICS; 3. OBESITY: AN IRREFUTABLE RISK FACTOR FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES; 4. OBESITY AND INSULIN RESISTANCE; 5. HEALTH EQUITY AND "DIABESITY"; 6. DISCUSSION; 7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 8. REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6 Modelling for the Dynamics and the Burden of Dengue: A Review; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. DENGUE AND ENVIRONMENT; 3. THE BURDEN OF DF/DHF: A GLOBAL HEALTH PROBLEM |
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4. MODELLING, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND SURVEILLANCE5. CONCLUSION; 6. REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7 Inequalities and Disparities in North Africa; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: SIMILIRATIES AND DISPARITIES BETWEEN COUNTRIES; 3. INEQUALITIES AND INEQUITY WITHIN COUNTRIES; 4. HEALTH EQUITY; 5. EQUITY IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: EXAMPLE OF CANCER; 6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 7. DEDICATION; 8. REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8 Fifty Years of Human Development in Morocco: The Necessity of Equity Analysis; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. REGIONAL DISPARITIES; 3. RURAL/URBAN DIFFERENCES; 4. POOR/RICH DIFFERENCES |
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5. ILLITERACY AND GENDER INEQUITY6. AKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 7. DEDICATION; 8. REFERENCES; CHAPTER 9 Children's Rights: A Multitude of Conventions and Declarations for a Miserable Situation; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. AN OVERVIEW OF DECLARATIONS AND CONVENTIONS ON THE RIGHT OF CHILDREN; 3. THE CHILDREN'S SITUATION; 4. THE GAZA'S CHILDREN CASE STUDY; 5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 6. DEDICATION; 7. COMPETING INTERESTS; 7. REFERENCES |
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Annotation A refreshing and useful resource for understanding the multidimensional aspects linking social determinants to health equity and development. This Ebook is written for researchers, students, public health practitioners, health decision makers, health economists, epidemiologists, sociologists, demographers and general public audience with interest in health equity and development. The nine chapters presented are clear and comprehensive, reinforced by several diagrams and real examples illustrating inequity in health. The Ebook is Illustrated with 45 tables and figures, and contain 355 recent references to the literature |
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Health -- Social aspects
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Social medicine.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Health -- Social aspects
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Social medicine
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Electronic book
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Abdesslam, Boutayeb
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| ISBN |
9781608050666 |
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1608050661 |
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