Local perspectives: foreign aid to the justice sector
Human rights are central to development. Progress cannot be measured in economic terms alone. Moreover, economic progress itself only proceeds in a sustainable way when it is grounded in concern for h...
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Human Rights, Legislation, Health Equity, Advocacy
Comparative analyses of more than 50 household surveys on health status
This study is to determine whether existing data sources from household interview based surveys conducted in a large number of countries may be used towards estimating the distribution and levels of s...
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Data Collection, Social Conditions, Health Care Surveys, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^ut
HIV and AIDS in Americas: an epidemic with many faces
As the HIV epidemic enters its third decade, the challenges it poses to families, to societies, to governments and to science continue to grow. The more we learn about HIV and the behaviors that spre...
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Disease Outbreaks, Health Equity, Acquired Immunodeficiency
Benchmarks of fairness for health care reform: A policy tool for developing countries
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We report here on progress we have made toward developing the benchmarks of fairness into a policy tool that will be useful in developing countries for analyzing the overall fairness of health care...
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Health Care Reform, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
State income inequality, household income, and maternal mental and physical health: cross sectional national survey
"... The joint effect of income inequality and household income on health has received limited attention. On p 1311 Kahn et al focus on symptoms of depression and self reported health among a large sa...
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Maternal Welfare, Income, Income Poverty, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions
Promoting health: intervention strategies from social and behavioral research (2000)
Paper prepared for a conference on "Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral Research to Improve the Public's Health" sponsored by The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences an...
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Health Status Disparities, Racial Discrimination, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
Why reduce health inequalities?
Inequalities in health are undesirable to the extent that they are unfair, or unjust. Distinguishing between health inequalities and health inequities can be contentious. Our view is that inequalities...
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Health Status Disparities, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Cross sectional study of differences in coronary artery calcification by socioeconomic status
"...Socioeconomic differences in coronary heart disease already exist in people in there 30's... The relative contribution of socioeconomic differences in risk factors in adulthood versus earlier life...
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Social Class, Socioeconomic Factors, Coronary Disease, Health Equity
Chile health insurance issues: Old age and catastrophic health costs
This paper analyzes Chilean data in search of answers to questions about the effects on health care costs of population aging and of catastrophic events. Its main purpose is to ground current discussi...
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Insurance, Health, Health Equity, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
A League table of child injury deaths in rich nations
This publication is the first in a series of Innocent Report Cards, designed to monitor the performance of the industrialized nations in meeting the needs of their children. Each Report Card will pres...
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Child Health, Health Equity
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