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On Wed, 16 May
2001, Pinzon, Ms. Mylena (WDC) wrote:
> The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office for the
> Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO), has recently published the
> book: Equity and Health: Views from the Pan American Sanitary Bureau
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> Below you will find more information about the book. To obtain a copy visit
> our online bookstore: http://publications.paho.org or send us an e-mail to:
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> Mylena Pinzón,
> Publications Program
> Pan American Health Organization
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> Equity and Health: Views from the Pan American Sanitary Bureau
>
> The concept of equity has emerged as a primary guiding for the work of the
> Pan American Sanitary Bureau. The Bureau has been gathering information on
> and examining issues related to disparities in health in the Americas,
> especially as they relate to socioeconomic factors. The articles gathered in
> this publication represent an important step toward a more equitable
> distribution of health conditions and health related services, insofar as
> they represent the status of the issues and dilemmas faced by that Bureau in
> making equity an operational concept for its work in the Region. The authors
> have attempted to show how equity and the insights it yields into the
> distribution of health-dependent as this is on differences in education,
> income, class, ethnicity and race, geographic location, gender, and other
> distinctions-can underpin the Bureau's work at the operational level and be
> incorporated into technical cooperation activities.
>
> Many of the perspectives expressed in the collection come from conceptual
> work developed by others scholars and researchers or emerge from the
> Bureau's ongoing work with collaborating institutions, such as the
> Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank, UNDP, and
> CARICOM, as well as several universities and professional and academic
> associations in the Region. The 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."
>
> 2001, 169p., ISBN 92 75 12288 1
> Order code: OP 8
> Price: US$22.00
> Languages Available: English
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