Global forum update on research for health : poverty, equity and health research. Volume 2 / Global Forum for Health Resarch ; edited by Stephen Matlin.

"During recent years, an increasingly clear and detailed picture has emerged of the ways that poverty, exclusion from education and social disadvantages – including discrimination based on biases inequities in health. Health research has a vital role to play in reducing these inequities. Global Forum Update on Research for Health Volume 2 is the second in a series of essential overviews of global health research by leaders from the world’s health research community. Produced with the Global Forum for Health Research to coincide with its 2005 annual meeting, Forum 9, this second edition presents over thirty perspectives on health research issues and challenges relating to poverty and equity from many of the leading institutions and public health professionals across the globe."--Provided by publisher.