Poverty and Health: Reaping a Richer Harvest

This text is a practical field handbook for those working to reduce both poverty and ill-health. The text examines the effects of poverty on human health, and presents ideas to improve planning and implementing of action with rural and urban poor. It emphasizes participatory and people-centred development, highlighting the unmet needs of households and unsafe workplaces where the poor and vulnerable work and live. It shows why more targeted and integrated strategies are needed to reduce poverty and ill-health.