Background and objectives Most studies on health inequalities use average measures, but describing the distribution of health can also provide ...

Rural Angola has gone through decades of hardships with war and economic marginalisation – culminating with the current economic crisis. ...

The overall human resource shortages and the distributional inequalities in the health workforce in many developing countries are well acknowledged. ...

Objective: In Ethiopia, coverage of key health services is low, and community based services have been implemented to improve access to ...

The hypothesis that socio-economic inequality has a detrimental effect on economic growth by breeding political instability has been subject ...

A central question in the allocation of scarce resource for health is how to balance the desire to achieve the maximal aggregate health benefit ...

A statistical survey of health facilities and households in Luanda and Uíge has confirmed that strong inequalities persist between provinces ...

The foundational principle of human rights is that all human beings are equal in rights, dignity, and worth. Yet we live in a world ravaged ...

This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. ...

Inequality in Angola is high with a Gini index of 0.55. The 20% of the population with the highest incomes receive 59% of all incomes, whilst ...

This paper proposes a model how individuals form beliefs on inequality based on their own and their family’s experience. A person’s ...

Several countries in Latin American has managed to reduce economic inequalities during the past decade. Yet, various forms of social, economic and cultural inequalities continues to be a defining feature of Latin American societies.

Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the nature and development of people’s fairness ...

Colombia is a country marked by extreme social inequalities and high levels of violence, with a government that has brutally repressed social ...

Is right-to-health litigation a suitable strategy for advancing the right to health, or does it reinforce inequalities and undermine health ...

Liberal egalitarian theories of justice argue that inequalities arising from non-responsibility factors should be eliminated, but that inequalities ...

Does poverty or inequality explain the Maoist insurgency in Nepal? In contrast to previous studies we limit the analysis to the hill/mountain ...

Was the Maoist influence during the insurgency in Nepal stronger in districts with high rates of poverty and inequality? In contrast to previous ...

Workshop and seminar with Professor Erik Thorbecke from Cornell University on social exclusion: Is socio-cultural identity a barrier to poverty reduction? How does discrimination in the job market affect income inequality?

Less than 10 percent of money spent on health research is spent on diseases that primarily affect 90 percent of the world's population, including the poorest. Are even the meager 10 percent spent wisely? No, says Professor David Sanders and argues that a fear of stepping into the realm of politics makes global health actors and donors prioritise wrongly.