PMID- 10810165
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20000706
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 0353-9504 (Print)
IS  - 0353-9504 (Linking)
VI  - 41
IP  - 1
DP  - 2000 Mar
TI  - Joining together to combat poverty.
PG  - 28-31
AB  - The International Poverty and Health Network (IPHN) was created in December 1997 
      following a series of conferences organized by the World Health Organization, 
      with the aim of integrating health into plans to eradicate poverty. Around 1.3 
      billion people live on less than US$1 per day. Of the 4.4 billion people in 
      developing countries nearly 60% lack access to sanitation, 30% do not have clean 
      water, 20% have no health care, and 20% do not have enough dietary energy and 
      protein. Even among rich nations there are gross socioeconomic inequalities. Many 
      children are robbed of their physical and mental potential through poverty. 
      Expressed in constant 1963 US dollars, an average Croatian family needed the 
      annual income of US$894 to meet the poverty line in 1960 and US$9,027 in 1995. 
      Accordingly, 9-25% of Croatian households were below the poverty line between 
      1960 and 1995. The increase in the poverty rate after 1991 was compounded by the 
      war that destroyed almost a third of industrial capacity and infrastructure. 
      Dissipation of the communist economy and inadequate privatization have 
      contributed to the increase in unemployment rate, corruption, and other social 
      ills. IPHN invited Croatian Medical Journal to publish this editorial to help 
      push the issue of poverty up political and medical agendas on a global level. We 
      argue that a factor contributing to the failure of most large-scale programs 
      against poverty to date is the excessive emphasis on material and infrastructure 
      assistance at the expense of spiritual, moral, and intellectual development.
FAU - Heath, I
AU  - Heath I
FAU - Haines, A
AU  - Haines A
FAU - Malenica, Z
AU  - Malenica Z
FAU - Oulton, J A
AU  - Oulton JA
FAU - Leopando, Z
AU  - Leopando Z
FAU - Kaseje, D
AU  - Kaseje D
FAU - Addington, W W
AU  - Addington WW
FAU - Giscard D'Estaing, O
AU  - Giscard D'Estaing O
FAU - Tumwine, J K
AU  - Tumwine JK
FAU - Koivusalo, M
AU  - Koivusalo M
FAU - Biscoe, G
AU  - Biscoe G
FAU - Nickson, P
AU  - Nickson P
FAU - Marusic, M
AU  - Marusic M
FAU - Vuk Pavlovic, S
AU  - Vuk Pavlovic S
LA  - eng
PT  - Editorial
PL  - Croatia
TA  - Croat Med J
JT  - Croatian medical journal
JID - 9424324
SB  - IM
MH  - Croatia
MH  - Cultural Deprivation
MH  - Health Planning/organization & administration
MH  - *Health Status
MH  - Humans
MH  - Income
MH  - Politics
MH  - Poverty/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Warfare
EDAT- 2000/05/16 09:00
MHDA- 2000/07/08 11:00
CRDT- 2000/05/16 09:00
PHST- 2000/05/16 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2000/07/08 11:00 [medline]
PHST- 2000/05/16 09:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Croat Med J. 2000 Mar;41(1):28-31.