Health Inequality and Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Health Inequality and Development: Achieving Better Health in Developing Countries

   • Mark McGillivray, Indranil Dutta, David Lawson

   Pages 1-19

3. Measurement and Explanation of Inequality in Health and Health Care in Low-Income Settings

   • Eddy van Doorslaer, Owen O’Donnell

   Pages 20-44

4. Global Inequality in Health: Disparities in Human Longevity among Countries

   • Mark McGillivray

   Pages 45-63

5. Determinants of Child Weight and Height in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach

   • Harsha Aturupane, Anil B. Deolalikar, Dileni Gunewardena

   Pages 64-88

6. Environmental Determinants of Child Mortality in Kenya

   • Clive J. Mutunga

   Pages 89-110

7. How Growth and Related Instabilities Lower Child Survival

   • Patrick Guillaumont, Catherine Korachais, Julie Subervie

   Pages 111-131

8. Intra-Household Arrangements and Adult Health Satisfaction: Evidence from Mexico

   • Mariano Rojas

   Pages 132-153

9. Individual and Collective Resources and Women’s Health in Morocco

   • Marie-Claude Martin

   Pages 154-173

10. Health and Female Labour Market Participation: The Case of Uganda

    • Sarah Bridges, David Lawson

    Pages 174-192

11. Back Matter

    Pages 193-200

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This book investigates issues related to health inequality with a particular interest on developing countries. It provides rigorous empirical work on both trends and causal factors behind health inequality, analyzes the implications of health deprivations on poverty traps and suggests practical policies which can be implemented.

• Developing Countries
• development
• health
• healthcare
• labor market
• Poverty

• Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University, Australia

  Mark McGillivray

• University of Manchester, UK

  Indranil Dutta

• Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), UK

  David Lawson

• Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC)/Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of Manchester, UK

  David Lawson

MARK MCGILLIVRAY is Research Chair in International Development at the Alfred Deakin Research Institute. His previous positions include Chief Economist of the Australian Agency for International Development and Deputy Director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University. Mark's research interests include aid allocation and effectiveness, measuring multidimensional well-being achievement and international inequality in well-being

INDRANIL DUTTA is currently a Brooks World Poverty Institute Lecturer in Economics at the University of Manchester. Prior to this he was a Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University. His primary research interests are mainly in the area deprivation and inequality. His papers have been published in the Journal of Health Economics, Economica and Mathematical Social Sciences
 
DAVID LAWSON is a Lecturer at The Institute for Development Policy and Management and senior research fellow/faculty associate with The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) and Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of Manchester. He has extensive developing country experience and his research interests are in development economics, but more specifically applied microeconometric analysis, and poverty dynamics, in relation to health and gender. He has published in leading development journals consulted extensively for the World Bank and DFID andis on the WHO Scientific Resource Group on Equity Analysis and Research. He is lead editor of 'What Works for The Poorest: Poverty Reduction Programmes for the Ultra Poor' (2010), Practical Action

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