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• Title:Neoliberalism, globalization, and inequalities : consequences for health and quality of life / edited by Vicente Navarro.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Navarro, Vicente.
  
• Published/Created:Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub., ©2007.
  

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  • Call Number: W76 .N438 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: W76 .N438 2007
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Neoliberalism--Health aspects.
  Globalization--Health aspects.
  Equality--Health aspects.
  Health services accessibility.
  Public health--Economic aspects.
  Public health--Political aspects.
  Quality of life.
  Welfare state.
  World health.
  
• Medical Subjects: Health Services Accessibility.
  Health Policy.
  Politics.
  Socioeconomic Factors.
  
• Description:vii, 506 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  
• Series:Policy, politics, health, and medicine series (Unnumbered)
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780895033383 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0895033380 (cloth : alk. paper)
  9780895033444 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  0895033445 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Pt. I. What is neoliberalism?
  1. Neoliberalism as a class ideology; or, the political causes of the growth of inequalities / Vicente Navarro
  Pt. II. Neoliberalism, globalization, and the welfare state
  2. Is globalization undermining the welfare state? : the evolution of the welfare state in developed capitalist countries during the 1990s / Vicente Navarro, John Schmitt and Javier Astudillo
  3. future of the welfare state : crisis myths and crisis realities / Francis G. Castles
  Pt. III. growth of inequalities
  4. Should we worry about income inequality? / Robert Hunter Wade
  5. causes of increasing world poverty and inequality; or, why the Matthew effect prevails / Robert Hunter Wade
  6. Is globalization reducing poverty and inequality? / Robert Hunter Wade
  Pt. IV. Consequences of neoliberalism and globalization for health and quality of life
  7. scorecard on development : 25 years of diminished progress / Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker and David Rosnick
  8. world health situation / Vicente Navarro
  Pt. V. European integration and its consequences for health and quality of life
  9. Economic efficiency versus social equality? : the U.S. liberal model versus the European social model / Vicente Navarro and John Schmitt
  10. Is the United States a good model for reducing social exclusion in Europe? / John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer
  Pt. VI. liberal model in the United States and its social consequences
  11. Labor markets and economic inequality in the United States since the end of the 1970s / John Schmitt
  12. politics of health inequalities research in the United States / Vicente Navarro
  Pt. VII. situation in Latin America : alternatives to neoliberallsm
  13. alternative to the neoliberal model in health : the case of Venezuela / Oscar Feo and Carlos Eduardo Siqueira
  14. Venezuela's Barrio Adentro : an alternative to neoliberalism in health care / Carles Muntaner, Rene M. Guerra Salazar, Joan Benach and Francisco Armada
  Pt. VIII. consequences of neoliberallsm in Africa
  15. dispossession of African wealth at the cost of Africa's health / Patrick Bond
  16. Uneven health outcomes and political resistance under residual neoliberalism in Africa / Patrick Bond and George Dor
  17. International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Africa : a "disastrous" record / Demba Moussa Dembele
  Pt. IX. Analysis of proposed solutions to current health and social problems
  18. Sachs report : investing in health for economic development - or increasing the size of the crumbs from the rich man's table? / Alison Katz
  19. Report of the WHO commission on macroeconomics and health : a critique / Debabar Banerji
  20. Assessment of the World Health Report 2000 / Vicente Navarro
  21. Serious crisis in the practice of international health by the World Health Organization : the commission on social determinants of health / Debabar Banerji
  22. critique of Jeffrey D. Sachs's the end of poverty / Doug Henwood.