Gertrude Stein, confidante of the leading writ ers, artists, and intellectuals of her time, lay
dying. Her closest friend and lifetime companion, Alice B. Toklas, leaned forward and said," …

Wagstaff 57 what proportion of a family's income these payments represent. If, as we move
up through the income distribution, the proportion of income spent on out-of-pocket …

This report describes many of the ways in which being poor is bad for one's health and
points to policies that have the potential for restoring the prospect of good health to the lives …

It's not terrorism. Nor it is global warming. The biggest problem, the largest human tragedy in
the world today is the health debacle suffered by the citizens of Africa. More than one third of …

The issue of the links between poverty, health, and access to medical care is one that has
received considerable attention from a variety of perspectives. Health influences most other …

Health and poverty are inextricably intertwined. Being able to breast-feed, attend school,
work to grow food, earn a living or feed a family all depend on a baseline level of good …

Health is now higher on the international agenda than ever before, and concern for the
health of poor people is becoming a central issue in development. The nations of the world …

The social sciences discovered illness in the 1950s, and rediscovered poverty almost a
decade later. When the first edition of Poverty and Health was being planned, the three …

As an economist that has devoted a substantial part of his life to do research in the field of
economic growth, I think it is a great opportunity for me to address this audience of health …

THAT poor health, poor health care, and poverty are closely intertwined is a proposition that
is widely accepted. While we know less than we might about the precise relationship …