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Poverty, Equity & Health Research
Peterson Stearns, Beverly
Peterson Stearns, Beverly
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"Throughout Forum 9 the vicious cycle of poverty and ill-health was repeatedly illustrated in presentations. In the opening plenary, Berk Ozler told how a child born in the poorest quintile of South Africa is more than twice as likely to die before its fi rst birthday as is a child born in a rich quintile of that same country. If the fi rst child survives and lives its average lifespan of 50 years, it can expect to have less than one year of formal schooling while the second child, with a lifespan expectation of 68 years, will complete 12 years of schooling. As striking as these differences, cited in the World Development Report 2006, are, they are dwarfed by the disparities between average South Africans and citizens of more developed countries. The poor not only have less income, but less voice and less access to health care and services. As experts throughout Forum 9 testifi ed, nearly half of the disease burden in the least developed countries is determined by the prevalence of poverty."(pg 11)
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2005-12
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2940286388
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