World Health Organization : Year 2001 : Issue 9275122881: Equity Health Pan American Health Organization Views from the Pan American Sanitary Bureau

By George A. O. Alleyne

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 2001 : Issue 9275122881: Equity Health Pan American Health Organization Views from the Pan American Sanitary Bureau
Author:	George A. O. Alleyne
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Excerpt
INTRODUCTION In October 1999, PAHO held its first Organization-wide technical discussion of equity, sharing perspectives developed by different Organizational divisions and among those working at the country level. This publication includes the presentations made at that meeting and is intended to provide a broad basis for discussion as well as to stimulate future thought. The collection stands as an initial effort to interpret the concept of equity for application to the various areas of PAHO’s work. The individual articles were developed independently and reflect different approaches to the interpretation of health equity. Many of the perspectives expressed in the collection extend from the conceptual work developed by other scholars and researchers or emerge from PAHO’s ongoing work with collaborating institutions. Present project partners include the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank, UNDP, and CARICOM, as well as several universities and professional and academic associations in the Region. This diversity has presented challenges of its own. The job of the editors has been to clarify the authors’ ideas and otherwise encourage dialogue that will eventually result in conclusions, recommendations, and actions to be taken. A common understanding of how to translate the concept would allow us to apply it to PAHO’s programs and technical cooperation, and to identify concrete and practical interventions and establish priorities which will contribute to increased equity in health in the countries of the Americas. This collection is organized into three sections: “Conceptual and Contextual Aspects of Health Equity,” “Priorities for Incorporating Equity into Technical Cooperation in Health,” and “Making Health Equity Work at the Country Level.”

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iiv Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii PART 1. CONCEPTUAL AND CONTEXTUAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH EQUITY IN THE AMERICAS Equity and Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 George A. O. Alleyne Assessing Equity in Health: Conceptual Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Alexandra Bambas and Juan Antonio Casas Health Disparities in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Role of Social and Economic Determinants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Juan Antonio Casas, J. Norberto Dachs, and Alexandra Bambas Poverty, Human Development, and Public Expenditure: Developing Actions for Government and Civil Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Eduardo Doryan Poverty, Equity, and Health: Some Research Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Adam Wagstaff Equidad, Minorías Étnicas y Derechos Humanos Fundamentales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Pilar Córdova PART 2. PRIORITIES FOR INCORPORATING EQUITY INTO TECHNICAL COOPERATION IN HEALTH IN THE AMERICAS La Medición de las Desigualdades en Salud: Algunos Ejemplos de la Región de las Américas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 George A. O. Alleyne, Carlos Castillo-Salgado, Cristina Schneider, Oscar J. Mujica, Enrique Loyola, y Manuel Vidaurre Noncommunicable Diseases and Risk Factor Surveillance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Sylvia Robles, Jeannette Vega, and Stephen Corber Health Equity and Maternal Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Ernesto Pate, Carol Collado, and José Antonio Solís Health Equity in Relation to Safe Drinking Water Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Horst Otterstetter, Luiz A. C. Galvão, Vicente Witt, Peter Toft, Sergio Caporali, Paulo C. Pinto, Luis C. R. Soares, and Carlos Cuneo Access to Financing of Health Care: Ways to Measure Inequities and Mechanisms to Reduce Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Daniel López Acuña, César Gattini, Matilde Pinto, and Bernt Andersson