Jean Adams , Martin White , Suzanne Moffatt , Denise Howel and Joan Mackintosh
Public Health Research Group, School of Population and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle, UK
BMC Public Health 2006, 6:81 (20 March 2006)
doi:10.1186/1471-2458-6-81
Available online (PDF file 56p.) at:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-6-81.pdf
".....Socio-economic variations in health, including variations in health according to wealth and income, have been widely reported. A potential method of improving the health of the most deprived groups is to increase their income. State funded welfare programmes of financial benefits and benefits in kind are common in developed countries. However, there is evidence of widespread under claiming of welfare benefits by those eligible for them.
One method of exploring the health effects of income supplementation is, therefore, to measure the health effects of welfare benefit maximisation programmes. We conducted a systematic review of the health, social and financial impacts of welfare rights advice delivered in healthcare settings....."
Fonte: Informativo PAHO
http://listserv.paho.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0604&L=equidad&T=0&F=&S=&P=1946
