021070000a22002410004500003000900000005001700009245003600026020002400062264005300086300001500139040000700154041000800161650003300169650002800202650001100230650002300241650002000264650001900284650001400303500151000317700001701827700002101844PH-MaWHO20241108112504.0 4aThe economics of health equity.  a9780521705066qpbk.  aCambridge : bCambridge University Press,c2007.  axvi, 276p.  aLC  aeng  aHealthservices accessibility  aDelivery of health care  aEquity  aEconomics, Medical  aHealtheconomics  aDiscrimination  aPrejudice  aContents: Section 1. Introduction. Why this book? / Gavin Mooney and Di McIntyre. Section 2. Equity in general. Health and health inequalities in a neo-liberal global world / David Coburn and Elaine S. Coburn -- Governing the market in health care: the social and political requirements / Amiya Kumar Bagchi -- Equity in the context of diversity of culture and diversity of economic systems / Gavin Mooney -- Beware of the libertarian wolf in the clothing of the egalitarian sheep: an essay on the need to clarify ends and means / Alan Maynard. Section 3. Health service access. Exploring the dimensions of access / Michael Thiede, Patricia Akweongo and Di McIntyre -- Acceptability, trust and equity / Lucy Gilson. Section 4. Equity and health systems. International migration and extreme health inequality: robust arguments and institutions for international redistribution in health care / Maureen Mackintosh -- Pay the piper and call the tune: changing health care financing mechanisms to address public-private health sector mix inequities / Di McIntyre. Section 5. Lessons from individual countries. Equity in health financing, resource allocation and health service utilization in Brazil: past, present and future / Silvia Marta Porto ... [et al.] -- Improving health-related information systems to monitor equity in health: lessons from Thailand / Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Supon Limwattananon and Phusit Prakongsai. Section 6. Future action. Where now with equity? / Di McIntyre and Gavin Mooney.  aMcIntyre, Di  aMooney, Gavin H.