Health and Poverty
Subtitle: Global Health Problems and Solutions
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Earthscan
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781849711814
Subjects: Poverty; Health services accessibility; Equality; World health; Primary health care
Description: Provides examples of diseases and problems related to health that disproportionally impact the poor, and gives their experiences a human face through individual case studies. Walraven provides a specific case study of a health problem, such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV or health financing, including an introduction in each chapter followed by an historical review of the problem. From publisher description.