023960000a22003130004500 PH-MaWHO 20241108112504.0 The economics of health equity. 9780521705066 pbk. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi, 276p. LC W 84.1 2007EC eng HRF GBP 35.00 = USD 72.32 Healthservices accessibility 649361 Delivery of health care 126053 Equity 655154 Economics, Medical 142386 Healtheconomics 645335 Discrimination 659597 Prejudice 285663 SAP Contents: 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. McIntyre, Di 663765 Mooney, Gavin H. 663766 MONO m Mark 13-03-2008 09:56:08 Connie 13-03-2008 11:40:26 11612 11612 0 0 0 0 WPRO WPRO 2021-05-23 0 W 84.1 2007EC 11612 2024-01-24 00:00:00 2021-05-23 MONO