Subject(s): Equality -- Health aspects -- Health services accessibility -- Poor -- Medical care -- Cross-cultural studies. -- World health -- Unacceptable reality : Health sector may exacerbate inequality, public spending on health, presenting inequality data -- Approaching a complex and persistent problem : Good health, binding constraints faced by poor, blind spots of health sector, health sector finance and poor -- Importance of listening : Views of leaders from low and middle income countries, eight steps to effective use by poor, tools for analyzing role of resources allocation and financing in inequality -- Menu of pro-poor policies : Recurring themes, menu of pro poor polices, rules of thumb -- Brazil, filling the cracks in universal coverage : Supplementing universal health coverage -- Cambodia- contracting with non governmental organizations to serve the poor, health equity fund for poor, Chile- integrated services program for the poor, Colombia- expanding health insurance for the poor, India- Community based health care services, Indonesia- health cards for poor, Kenya- expanding immunization reach through campaigns, Kyrgyz republic- health financing reform and poor -- Mexico- paying the poor to use health services, Mexico- providing subsidized health insurence to poor, Nepal participatory planning, Rwanda- community based health insurance, Tanzania- social marketing for Malaria prevention, monitoring funds