1 option
The political economy of social inequalities : consequences for health and quality of life / edited by Vicente Navarro.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Policy, politics, health, and medicine series (Unnumbered)
- Policy, politics, health, and medicine series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quality of life.
- Poverty.
- Equality.
- Income distribution.
- Poor--Medical care.
- Poor.
- Public Health--economics.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Health Policy.
- Quality of Life.
- Social Welfare--economics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Public Health--economics.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Health Policy.
- Quality of Life.
- Social Welfare--economics.
- Physical Description:
- v, 530 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amityville, NY : Baywood Pub. Co., 2000.
- Contents:
- Historical review (1965-1997) of studies on class, health, and quality of life : a personal account ; Neoliberalism, "globalization," unemployment, inequalities, and the welfare state ; Health and equity in the world in the era of "globalization" ; Political economy of the welfare state in developed capitalist countries / Vicente Navarro
- Ravaging the poor : the International Monetary Fund indicted by its own data / Gabriel Kolko
- World Bank education policy : market liberalism meets ideological conservatism / Adriana Puiggrós
- Market commodities and poor relief : the World Bank proposal for health / Asa Cristina Laurell and Oliva López Arellano
- Neoliberalism revised? : a critical account of World Bank conceptions of good governance and market friendly intervention / Ray Kiely
- In pursuit of "growth with equity" : the limits of Chile's free-market social reforms / Pilar Vergara
- Fundamental shift in the approach to international health by WHO, UNICEF, and the World Bank : instances of the practice of "intellectual fascism" and totalitarianism in some Asian countries / Debabar Banerji.
- Mexican social security counterreform : pensions for profit / Asa Cristina Laurell
- Remaking Medicare : the voucher myth / Jonathan Oberlander
- Slippery slope : economists and social insurance in the United States / Richard B. Du Boff
- Income inequality, social cohesion, and class relations : a critique of Wilkinson's neo-Durkheimian research program / Carles Muntaner and John Lynch
- Income inequality, social cohesion, and health : clarifying the theory
- a reply to Muntaner and Lynch / Richard G. Wilkinson
- Social class determinants of income inequality and social cohesion / Carles Muntaner, John Lynch, and Gary L. Oates
- Political context of social inequalities and health / Vicente Navarro and Leiyu Shi
- Is there a third way? : a response to Giddens's The Third Way / Vicente Navarro
- Toward an ecosocial view of health / Richard Levins and Cynthia Lopez
- Development and quality of life : a critique of Amartya Sen's Development As Freedom ; Are pro-welfare state and full-employment policies possible in the era of globalization? / Vicente Navarro.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Bruce Alan Miller Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0895032201
- 089503252X
- OCLC:
- 44446292
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.