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  Poverty: assessing the distribution of health risks by socioeconomic position at national and local levels

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This guide from the World Health Organization addresses the influence of socioeconomic status on environmental and other risk factors for ill-health. The guide describes a method to "map" health risk factors by socioeconomic position.
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  Community development and its impact on health: South Asian experience

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This UNICEF article charts the rise of community based health care in South Asia, and examines the relationship between community development and improvements in health indicators in South Asia over recent decades.
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  Measuring health inequality among children in developing countries: does the choice of the indicator of economic status matter?

  BioMed Central, 2003

  This study, published by BioMed Central, compares the impact of four different wealth indices on the measurement of health inequality among children in developing countries. The study uses the World Bank Asset Index and three other indices, all based on household assets, to analyse data from Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Chad, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, Tanzania and Uganda.
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  Subsidized sales of insecticide-treated nets in Afghan refugee camps demonstrate the feasibility of a transition from humanitarian aid towards sustainability

  Malaria Journal, BioMed Central, 2004

  This article, published in Malaria Journal, reports on a survey of Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan, where subsidised sales of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) were introduced in place of indoor residual spraying, for the prevention of malaria and anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL).

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