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Disease eradication: friend or foe to the health system?

It presents a synthesis report from field studies on the Polio Eradication Initiative inTanzania, Nepal and the Lao People’sDemocratic Republic, which outlines the methodology, the findings from the ...
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English
Poliomyelitis/prevention & control, Evaluation Study, Health Promotion

Where the Public Good Prevailed

This article addresses the issue of health care in the United States and how research, advocacy, public discussion, and policy fit together in successful campaigns for change.
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English
Public Health, Advocacy

Training Program In International Health

The purpose of the Program is to promote leadership in international public health by enabling participants to develop a broader vision of international and regional health trends, and a more profound...
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English
Public Health, Advocacy

Towards a new prospective on health policy

The report ties together a number of separate studies and the results of discussions involving some 3,500 people at more than 90 events held over the course of developing the research conclusions. The...
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English
Health Policy, Advocacy

Global Polio Eradication progress 2002

It presents information on Polio eradication, such as major developments in 2002, interrupting transmission of polioviruses, polio eradication strategic Plan 2001 – 2005, financing and funding gap, a...
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English
Poliomyelitis/prevention & control, Immunization Programs, Health Promotion

Disease eradication: friend or foe to the health system?

It presents a synthesis report from field studies on the Polio Eradication Initiative inTanzania, Nepal and the Lao People`sDemocratic Republic, which outlines the methodology, the findings from the c...
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English
Poliomyelitis/prevention & control, Evaluation Study, Health Promotion, Poliomyelitis, Poliomyelitis, Poliomyelitis, Poliomyelitis

Contenção de poliovírus selvagem em laboratórios brasileiros

O documento apresenta informações acerca do poliovírus selvagem que causa a poliomielite. A publicação tem o foco de transmitir informações sobre a prevenção da transmissão desse vírus oriu...
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: Portuguese
Poliomyelitis/prevention & control, Poliovirus, Poliomyelitis, Poliomyelitis, Poliomyelitis, Poliomyelitis, 51876

Evolution and Inequality

Some scientists remain wary of evolutionary theory because of its supposed genetic determinism and insensitivity to the inequalities often associated with gender, race and class. The document aim is t...
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Resource added in: 24/05/2001
Available languages: English
Gender Identity, Health Status Disparities, Public Health, Health Equity, Racial, Advocacy

Advocacy - a practical guide with polio eradication as a case study

This guide outlines advocacy activities to build human, financial and political support for the Polio Eradication Initiative as a platform for strengthening preventive health services. Document in pdf...
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Resource added in: 24/05/2001
Available languages: English
Poliomyelitis/prevention & control, Health Promotion, Reference Books, Guia [tipo de publicação]

Socioeconomic Differentials in Health - Socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause and specific-cause mortality in Australia: 1985-1987 and 1995-1997

Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality have been repeatedly observed in Britain, the United States, and Europe, and in some countries there is evidence that the differentials are widening. This study...
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Resource added in: 24/05/2001
Available languages: English
Evidence-Based Medicine, Socioeconomic Factors, Mortality, 50334, Equity, Living Conditions