Name: Health Inequity
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Health Inequity

A Crucial Issue Worldwide

Edited By: Abdesslam Boutayeb, Abdellatif Maamri

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This book analyzes the crucial issue of health inequities between and within countries. It uses a multitude of figures to illustrate huge inequalities in maternal mortality, life expectancy, and more. A vital resource for students, researchers, and health decision makers.

This book is devoted to the crucial issue of health inequities between and within countries. Beside descriptive statistics and health equity analysis, it analyses a…

This book is devoted to the crucial issue of health inequities between and within countries. Beside descriptive statistics and health equity analysis, it analyses a multitude of figures to illustrate the huge inequalities in terms of various indicators such as maternal mortality rate, infant mortality ratio, life expectancy, nutritional indicators, rate of adolescent childbearing, and non-communicable diseases, among others. This book will be of interest to students, academic staff, researchers, health decision makers and members of civil society who are concerned about problems of socioeconomic inequalities in general and health inequity in particular.

Abdesslam Boutayeb obtained his PhD in Numerical Analysis from Brunel University, UK, in 1990. His main research fields are numerical analysis, mathematical modelling and health equity. He has edited nine books and published around 100 papers, 30 book chapters and 15 conference papers. As a consultant with the World Health Organisation (WHO), he has also written seven reports on public health, health equity and social determinants of health.

Dr Abellatif Maamri is a Higher Education Professor, and has spent 25 years teaching and conducting research at the University Mohamed Premier, Morocco. He has edited six books and authored 67 scientific papers.

Fadoua Bakhadda, Abdelaziz Barkia, Souad BenElMostafa, Abdesslam Boutayeb, Wiam Boutayeb, Mohamed E.N. Lamlili, Abdellatif Maamri