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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="#993300" size="4"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">10 best resources on . . . health equity</span></font></b>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Davidson R Gwatkin</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Health Policy and Planning Volume 22, Issue 5: September 2007 - Oxford University Press
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An astute bureaucratic pundit named Rufus Miles once observed that 'where you stand depends on where you sit' (Miles 1978). This 'Miles Law' deserves to be kept centrally in mind when considering not only traditional bureaucratic behaviour, but also health equity; for one's judgment about what's 'best' in the health equity area is unavoidably shaped by his/her institutional experience, background and interests
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Resources:</span></font></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">1. Whitehead M. 1992. The concepts and principles of equity and health. International Journal of Health Services 22: 42945.
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2. Evans T, Brown H. 2002. Opportunities for action: applying an equity lens to global health initiatives. Presentation at the National Press Club, Washington DC; Evans T,
<br> Brown H. 2002. Applying an equity lens to the safe motherhood initiative. Presentation to the Safe Motherhood Interagency Group, London; Evans T, Brown H. 2003.<br> Road traffic crashes: operationalizing equity in the context of health sector reform. Injury Control and Safety Promotion 10: 1112.
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">3. Wagstaff A, Paci P, van Doorslaer E. 1991. On the measurement of inequalities in health. Social Science and Medicine 33: 54557.
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">4. Victora CG, Vaughan JP, Barros FC et al. 2000. Explaining trends in inequities: evidence from Brazilian child health studies. The Lancet 356: 109398.
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">5. Marmot M. 2006. Health in an unequal world. The Lancet 368: 208194.</span></font>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">6. O¨ stlin P, George A, Sen G. 2001. Gender, health, and equity: the intersections. In: Evans T et al. (eds). Challenging inequities in health: from ethics to action. Oxford:
<br> Oxford University Press for the Rockefeller Foundation, pp. 17589.</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">7. Filmer D, Pritchett LH. 2001. Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data or tears: an application to educational enrollments in States of India.
<br> Demography 38: 11532.</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font size="4"><font face="Arial" color="#333399"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">8. Gwatkin DR</span></font><font face="Arial" color="#333399"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
, Rutstein S, Johnson K et al. 2007. Socio-economic differences in health, nutrition, and population. Washington, DC:The World Bank.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">9. Gwatkin DR, Wagstaff A, Yazbeck A (eds). 2005. Reaching the poor with health, nutrition, and population services: what works, what doesn't, and why.
<br> Washington, DC: The World Bank.</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">10. McIntyre D, Thiede M, Dahlgren G, Whitehead M. 2006. What are the economic consequences for households of illness and of paying for health care in
<br> low- and middleincome country contexts? Social Science and Medicine 62: 85865.</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">References</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Anand S, Diderichsen F, Evans T et al. 2001. <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">
Measuring disparities in health: methods and indicators</span></i>. In: Evans T, Whitehead M, Diderichsen F et al. (eds). Challenging inequities in health: from ethics to action. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Rockefeller Foundation, pp. 4967.
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Braveman P. 2006. <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Health disparities and health equity: concepts and measurement
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font size="1">Chowdhury M. 2005. <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Tracking progress in child survival: addressing inequities
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Miles RE Jr. 1978. <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The origin and meaning of Miles Law
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Starfield B. 2006. <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">State of the art in research on equity and health.
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="4"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tudor Hart J. 1971<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">. The inverse care law</span>
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