Introduction -- Overview -- Poverty and Health: Asking the Right Questions -- The Politics of Health Care Inequalities -- Poverty, Public Health, and Tuberculosis Control in New York City: Lessons from the Past -- Inequalities in Health -- Medical Care and the Poor: Focus on Hypertension and Diabetes -- Socioeconomic Differentials in Arthritis and Its Treatment -- Making a Difference in the Health of Children -- Health Care of the Poor: The Contribution of Social Insurance -- Summary -- Cornell University Medical College Eighth Conference on Health Policy.