Though not explicitly designed to do so, social and economic policies impact health at both
the individual and the population level. Education, income support, civil rights …

This chapter underlines the role of a global political economy in generating significant
barriers to improvements in both disease and poverty. It also underlines the significance of …

The role of better health in socio-economic development has long been argued, as has the
need for getting other development sectors to contribute to health development. However, as …

Economics is usually a rather doom-laden subject, and in this respect is linked indirectly with
medicine through the observation that the only two things in life that are certain are death …

This document is not a formal publication of the World Health Organization (WHO), and all
rights are reserved by the Organization. The document may, however, be freely reviewed …

Health inequalities are central to current health policy internationally and in many nations.
As health improvements have slowed, the extent and depth of health inequalities in the …

The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply
rooted in American society and medicine. In this provocative work, Daniel Callahan exposes …

As an applied field, conventional, standard or mainstream (the terms are used
interchangeably in this chapter) health economics has grown substantially over the decades …

This paper is a plea for greater cognizance of the errors of omission and commission
committed by mainstream health economics, and the potential orientation in treating health …

The CMH was initiated by the WHO as a means of providing an evidence base for economic
and financial policymakers in low-income countries on why spending on health was more …