Health systems confront poverty / / edited by Erio Ziglio ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911100960903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Copenhagen, : WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2003
• ISBN: 92-890-1398-2; 0-585-49250-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 182 p
• Collana: Public health case studies ; ; no. 1
• Altri autori (Persone): ZiglioErio
• Disciplina: 362.1/094
• Soggetti: Public health - Social aspects - Europe; Public health - Economic aspects - Europe; Poor - Medical care - Europe; Community health services - Europe
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Photograph credits -- Introduction -- Poverty and health: an overview of selected case studies in WHO European Member States -- Poverty and health case studies: an analytical framework -- Case study 1: Tackling cultural barriers to health care service delivery in Croatia -- Case study 2: Couverture maladie universelle: reaching the poorest in France -- Case study 3: The Mainz Model: bringing health care to the homeless -- Case study 4: Health care and social reintegration of the poor: exploring new pathways in Buda Hills, Hungary -- Case study 5: From misinformation and ignorance to recognition and care: immigrants and homeless in Rome, Italy -- Case study 6: Mobilizing resources for health: the first phase of Kyrgyzstan's co-payment policy -- Case study 7: Primary health care in homeless shelters in &amp -- #321 -- ód&amp -- #378 -- , Poland -- Case study 8: Prevention and social acceptance: managing sexually transmitted diseases in the Republic of Moldova -- Case study 9: Poverty and tuberculosis: a pilot partnership in Orel, Russian Federation -- Case study 10: The hanging gardens of St. Petersburg: improving nutrition and food security in impoverished urban settings -- Case study 11: Combined social support and health care in deprived areas: the Citizens Advice Bureau in Blackpool, United ; Kingdom -- Case study 12: "Fit for Work": linking city regeneration and health in Newham, London -- Conclusions -- Annex 1. Template for writers -- Annex 2. List of invited experts -- Annex 3. Template for group discussions.
• Sommario/riassunto: Health care systems across the WHO European Region have done and are doing much to tackle the complex and daunting problem of poverty and health. This book describes 12 initiatives already undertaken in 10 WHO Member States. It documents WHO's preliminary findings on how health care systems can help to alleviate poverty, and reaches three main conclusions: health care systems can indeed take effective action to improve the health of the poor; sometimes health care systems can actually represent an additional barrier for the poor and there is an urgent need for more knowledge, training and capacity-building in this area. It is hoped that the information presented here will contribute to the efforts to improve health and increase equity by tackling poverty and its effects on health across the length and breadth of Europe.