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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, Poliomyelitis, Poliomyelitis, Poliomyelitis, Poliomyelitis, Guia [tipo de publicação]

Identifying and overcoming obstacles to increase immunization coverage

It presents the 6 component modules of the course designed to teach health workers how togather information from the community and to use that information to improve their immunization coverage, and i...
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Resource added in: 21/05/2001
Available languages: English, French
Vaccination, Immunization, Health Personnel/education, Immunization Programs, Reference Books, Transmissão vertical de doença/prevenção & controle, Guia [tipo de publicação]

El estado del arte de la divulgación científica en América Latina y El Caribe

El documento presenta un análisis de situación incluyendo elementos de la estructura educativa, el sistema de investigación y desarrollo y de apreciación de la ciencia como componente esencial de ...
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Resource added in: 21/05/2001
Available languages: Spanish
Libraries, Digital, Internet, Science, Technology and Society, Información Científica, Abogacía

Immunological basis for immunization

Course on immunological basis for immunization which presents information on general immunology, diphteria, tetanus, pertussis, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, measles, and yellow fever. Document in pdf ...
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Resource added in: 21/05/2001
Available languages: English, French
Immunization, Vaccination, Diphtheria/immunology, Tetanus/immunology, Whooping Cough/immunology, Tuberculosis/immunology, Poliomyelitis/immunology, Measles/immunology, Yellow Fever/immunology, Health Personnel/education, Reference Books, Guia [tipo de publicação]

Health, nutrition and economic prosperity: A microeconomic perspective

A substantial body of literature indicates that nutritional status affects labor outcomes, particularly productivity. While the exact mechanisms underlying these relationships are not entirely clear,...
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Resource added in: 18/05/2001
Available languages: English
52503, Health Status Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions

Health, nutrition and economic prosperity: A microeconomic perspective

A substantial body of literature indicates that nutritional status affects labor outcomes, particularly productivity. While the exact mechanisms underlying these relationships are not entirely clear,...
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Resource added in: 18/05/2001
Available languages: English
52503, Health Status Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions

Poverty and Health

There are, in short, many ways that governments can potentially influence both health gaps between the poor and better off, and the degree to which poor households are affected disproportionately by t...
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Resource added in: 17/05/2001
Available languages: English
Health Systems, Delivery of Health Care, Poverty, Equity, Living Conditions

Relative deprivation, inequality, and mortality

The author postulate that individual health is negatively affected by relative deprivation within a reference group, defined as the ratio to group mean income of the total "weight" of incomes of group...
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Resource added in: 17/05/2001
Available languages: English
Mortality, 50334, Equity, Living Conditions

Grupo de trabajo: Biblioteca Virtual en Salud, Equidad y Desarrollo Humano

La Biblioteca Virtual en Salud en general es la expresión de un nuevo paradigma de disponibilidad, organización y acceso a la información. Donde el espacio es virtual, con acceso desde cualquier lu...
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Resource added in: 16/05/2001
Available languages: Spanish
Libraries, Digital, Information Centers, Abogacía

The overlap in the clinical presentation and treatment of malaria and pneumonia in children: report of a meeting

It presents information on the overlap in the clinical presentation between malaria and pneumonia, cotrimoxazole as an antimalarial in children less 5 years old with signs suggesting pneumonia, Cotrim...
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Resource added in: 11/05/2001
Available languages: English
Malaria/therapy, Malaria/drug therapy, Pneumonia/therapy, Antimalarials/therapeutic use, Malaria, Respiratory Tract Infections, Child Welfare, Health Surveillance, 24967, Host-Parasite Interactions, snimaisnimaisnimaisnimaisnimais