Leon and Walt have edited an excellent reader, which I commend strongly...They contribute excellent chaptures highlighting the need for both a panoramic view and a grasp of the detail. There are also thought provoking contributions from developing countries, making this a genuinely international perspective.

• Poverty, inequality and health in international perspective: a divided world? ; The health consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union ; Industrialization and health in historical perspective ; Common threads: underlying components of inequalities in morality between and within countries ; Lifecourse approaches to socio-economic differentials in cause-specific adult mortality ; The impact of health interventions on inequalities: infant and child health in Brazil ; Children's health in developing countries: issues of coping, child neglect and marginalization ; Social capital: the mixed health effects of personal communities and voluntary groups ; Do health care systems contribute to inequalities? ; Measuring health inequality: challenges and new directions ; Poverty and inequalities in health within developing countries: filling the information gap ; Poverty, inequality and mental health in developing countries ; Injuries, inequalities and health: from policy vacuum to policy action ; Inequalities in health: is research gender blind? ; From Science to policy: options for reducing health inequalities ; Do poverty alleviation programmes reduce inequalities in health? The Bangladesh experience ; Economic progress and health

Leon and Walt have edited an excellent reader, which I commend strongly...They contribute excellent chaptures highlighting the need for both a panoramic view and a grasp of the detail. There are also thought provoking contributions from developing countries, making this a genuinely international perspective.

• Poverty, inequality and health in international perspective: a divided world? ; The health consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union ; Industrialization and health in historical perspective ; Common threads: underlying components of inequalities in morality between and within countries ; Lifecourse approaches to socio-economic differentials in cause-specific adult mortality ; The impact of health interventions on inequalities: infant and child health in Brazil ; Children's health in developing countries: issues of coping, child neglect and marginalization ; Social capital: the mixed health effects of personal communities and voluntary groups ; Do health care systems contribute to inequalities? ; Measuring health inequality: challenges and new directions ; Poverty and inequalities in health within developing countries: filling the information gap ; Poverty, inequality and mental health in developing countries ; Injuries, inequalities and health: from policy vacuum to policy action ; Inequalities in health: is research gender blind? ; From Science to policy: options for reducing health inequalities ; Do poverty alleviation programmes reduce inequalities in health? The Bangladesh experience ; Economic progress and health

Leon and Walt have edited an excellent reader, which I commend strongly...They contribute excellent chaptures highlighting the need for both a panoramic view and a grasp of the detail. There are also thought provoking contributions from developing countries, making this a genuinely international perspective.

• Poverty, inequality and health in international perspective: a divided world? ; The health consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union ; Industrialization and health in historical perspective ; Common threads: underlying components of inequalities in morality between and within countries ; Lifecourse approaches to socio-economic differentials in cause-specific adult mortality ; The impact of health interventions on inequalities: infant and child health in Brazil ; Children's health in developing countries: issues of coping, child neglect and marginalization ; Social capital: the mixed health effects of personal communities and voluntary groups ; Do health care systems contribute to inequalities? ; Measuring health inequality: challenges and new directions ; Poverty and inequalities in health within developing countries: filling the information gap ; Poverty, inequality and mental health in developing countries ; Injuries, inequalities and health: from policy vacuum to policy action ; Inequalities in health: is research gender blind? ; From Science to policy: options for reducing health inequalities ; Do poverty alleviation programmes reduce inequalities in health? The Bangladesh experience ; Economic progress and health