[EQ] Health Disparities & The Body Politic

        Health disparities

      Health Disparities & the Body Politic

      A Series of International Symposia

      Published by the Harvard School of Public Health

      Boston, Massachusetts, USA - President and Fellows, Harvard College,
2005

      Available for downloading at:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/disparities/book

      ".What we today term "health disparities" -- the consistent gap in
physical and mental well-being between the most privileged members of
society and the most socially and economically disadvantaged -- launched the
modern public health movement in the nineteenth century. Yet only in the
past two decades have governments begun to focus explicitly on the
deep-rooted social determinants of health and disease.

      What are governments' responsibilities to reduce these disparities?
Should they enact policies extending beyond health agencies to encompass
economics, housing, transportation, education, and other sectors? How should
national research agendas spotlight the causes of, and solutions to, stark
differences in health within a country's population? What data should
governments collect to more fully reveal health inequalities? How can these
data be used to galvanize action?...."

      Table of Contents

      Foreword -- Barry R. Bloom
      Introduction -- Nancy Krieger

      Three International Symposia -- Madeline Drexler

      1. Spreading the Health: Government's Role in Addressing Health
Disparities

      2. Investigating Health Disparities: New Agendas for National Health
Research Institutes

      3. Making Disparities Count: From Government Statistics Systems to
Action

      Themes for Action

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