Poverty and Child Health, Second Edition [Paperback]

The power of purchasers exposes the weaknesses of conventional thinking on the costs and benefits of priorities. Health policy analysts now have to develop rational criteria to support decisions in a process which may be inherently intuitive. This authoritative and practical text points the way towards clear choices in resource allocation and the implications of these choices on expenditure diverted among different health care programmes.The power of purchasers exposes the weaknesses of conventional thinking on the costs and benefits of prioritiesPart One: Definition and Measurement 1. Defining and Measuring Poverty 2. The Extent of Child Poverty 3. Measuring Child Health Part Two: Evidence of Child Health Inequalities 4. Historical Evidence Linking Poverty and Child Health in Developed Countries 5. Poverty and Child Health in Less Developed Countries 6. Poverty and Child Health in Developed Countries Part Three: The Causal Debate 7. Race, Ethnicity, Poverty and Child Health 8. The Causal Debate 9. Mechanisms, Causal Models and Pathways Part Four: Social and Health Policy Implications 10. Social Policy Implications 11. Innovative Health Service Approaches and Future Research Directions 12. ConclusionsUS? 2000 Nick Spencer