Poverty, inequity and health
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POVERTY AND INEQUITY IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION: OUR NEED TO CHANGE
AND TO RE-CONCEPTUALIZE
The best way to improve the health and nutrition of the poor still is
to have them move out of poverty. For equity to be achieved, economic
growth in the development process needs to be deliberately geared to-
wards the needs of the poor. Focusing on sustainable poverty allevia-
tion is inseparable from bringing about greater equity. A focus on
both tasks is necessary to achieve the indispensable reduction in the
existing rich-poor gap. Focusing on poverty alleviation alone can end
up as charity in disguise. Focusing on equity is a step towards so-
cial justice. Equity and social justice in health and nutrition are
one and the same thing: in health and nutrition, social inequities
are always unfair.
This is an extract from an article in the International Journal for
Equity in Health 2003:
http://www.equityhealthj.com/content/2/1/4
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Claudio Schuftan
mailto:aviva@netnam.vn
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