A new World Health Organization publication looks at how health systems can tackle poverty - September 2003
This book explores 12 initiatives in 10 WHO Member States: Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom.
It examines how health systems can help to alleviate poverty, and reaches three main conclusions:
Health systems can take effective action to improve the health of the poor.
The health systems themselves can sometimes represent an additional barrier for the poor.
Additional training and capacity building are essential to tackle poverty
To read the report online click here
For additional information on the links between poverty and ill-health, click here
