The world health report 2000: can health care systems be compared using a single measure of performance?
The report examines the variables and methodology used by the World Health Organization to measure efficiency and performance of health systems. Presents the cases of South Africa and the United State...
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Health Human Resource Evaluation, Delivery of Health Care, Health Systems, Effectiveness, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Comparative studies
Criteria for evaluating evidence on public health interventions
This paper asks whether and to what extent evaluative research on public health interventions can be adequately appraised by applying well established criteria for judging the quality of evidence in c...
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02/08/2002
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Evidence-Based Medicine, Public Health/methods, Evaluation of public health interventions (process and outcome), Advocacy, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Revista Espaço para Saúde
Publicação on-line do Núcleo de Estudos em Saúde Coletiva da Universidade Estadual de Londrina cuja linha editorial é a municipalização da saúde. Cada volume traz resumos de artigos, relatos d...
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Public Health, Health Policy, Health Care Reform, 16763, Health Policy, Planning and Management, Local Health Systems, Políticas públicas e saúde, úde saúde saúde saúde
Experts and Citizens
It presents aspects of how citizens and experts deal with technological issues: expertise and interconnectedness, expertise and citizenship, the personal challenge, and the challenge to democracy.
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Expert Testimony, Community Participation, Technology, Consensus development conference [publication type], CCC
A toolbox of processes for community work
It presents a list of processes through which stakeholders and citizens can be engaged in co-intelligent exploration and decision-making on public issues (still in progress): that can increase the cap...
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Group Processes, Community Participation, Community Networks, CCCiudadano, Consensus development conference [publication type], CCC
Maternal mortality Update 2002 - a focus on emergency obstetric care
This edition of the UNFPA Maternal Mortality Update focuses on emergency obstetric care, anintervention that is fundamental to reducing maternal mortality worldwide, and analysesthe issue and shares t...
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Maternal Mortality, Morbidity, Health Equity, Emergency Medical Services, Obstetrics, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Basic patterns in national health expenditure
This paper analyses national health accounts estimates for 191 World Health Organization Member States for 1997, using simple comparisons and linear regressions to describe spending on health and how ...
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Health Expenditures, Financing, Personal, Health Care Sector, Linear Models, edanizedanizedanized, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Scaling up the response to infectious diseases: a way out of poverty
This Report shows that just a few conditions are responsible for a high proportion of the avoidable deaths in poor countries - and that well-targeted measures. It will help decision makers see how we ...
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Communicable Diseases, Malaria, HIV, Health Equity
Poverty and health sector inequalities
This paper provides an overview of research relating to inequalities in health to the disadvantage of the poor, and to changes in impoverishment and income inequality associated with payments for heal...
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Evidence-Based Medicine, Poverty, Health Status, Health Services Accessibility, Social Justice, Health Equity, Income, Financing, Organized, Advocacy, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Sistema de Informação da Atenção Básica - SIAB
Sistema desenvolvido pelo Ministério da Saúde para monitoramento dos indicadores de saúde das populações, a partir de informações dos agentes e das equipes de Saúde da Família. O site traz in...
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31/07/2002
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Public Health, Health Policy, Planning and Management, Program Evaluation, 50230, Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms, Delivery of Health Care, Information Systems, Basic Health Services, Family Health, ITD, PSF, ORGADMIN, MINSAU