Poverty and Health

  • Iona Heath Intercollegiate Forum on Poverty and Health
  • Andy Hains Royal Free University College Medical School
  • Pierre JT De Villiers University of Stellenbosch

Abstract

This month SouthAfrican Family Practice highlights the effects of poverty on health, in response to a call by the International Poverty and Health Network (IPHN). A very similar editorial will be published simultaneously at the beginning of this new millennium by many of the world leading medical journals.The IPHN was created in December 1997; following a series of conferences organised by the World Health Organisation.The aim of the Network is to "integrate health into poverty eradication policies and strategies, promoting community partnership and intersectoral action,as a means to achieve effective and sustainable results."

Author Biographies

Iona Heath, Intercollegiate Forum on Poverty and Health
General Practitioner, Chairman of the Intercollegiate Forum on Poverty and Health. London.
Andy Hains, Royal Free University College Medical School
Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, London.
Pierre JT De Villiers, University of Stellenbosch
Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Issue
Vol 22 No 1 (2000)
Section
Editorials
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