Explaining trends in inequities: evidence from Brazilian child health studies
The hypothesis suggests that good quality public-health programmes for improving child health are more available and being utilised by those families who need them least. The hypothesis also predicts ...
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Child Health, Public Health, Equity, Quality Health Care, onditionditionditiondition, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Pan American Journal of Public Health
The special issue provides an up-to-date analysis of how countries in the Region of the Americas are changing their health care systems in order to promote more effective health services and more equi...
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Delivery of Health Care, Public Health, Health Care Reform, Electronic Journals, Analysis, Advocacy
Corruption and the provision of health care and education services
The theoretical literature identifies three channels through which this can happen. (Au)The results have four important policy implications in light of the dominant role played by governments in the p...
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Socioeconomic Inequalitites in Child Mortality: Comparisons across Nine Developing Countries
Abstract\".. An estimate of poor-rich differences in infant and under-five mortality for nine developing countries, based on household survey data. The differences were large enough to be statisticall...
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Developing Countries, Health Services, Infant Mortality, Socioeconomic Factors, Sevices Accessibility, Equity, Living Conditions, Social Justic, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Role of private sector in United Kingdom healthcare system
Over 12 million people in the United Kingdom are covered for private health care. The private sector already provides many services for the National Health System (NHS), such a psychiatric care and l...
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Reinvigorating public health
Health inequalities are increasingly on the public-health agenda, and halving the number of people living in absolute poverty by the year 2015--the main international development goal--would do more t...
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50334, Public Health, Poverty, Population, Advocacy
An Annotated bibliography on indicators for the determinants of health
This annotated bibliography was developed in the winter of 1999 for the Atlantic and Manitoba/Saskatchewan Regional Offices of the Health Promotion and Programs Branch as an initial step in developing...
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Health Promotion, Policy Making, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Relation between income inequality and mortality in Canada and in the United States: cross sectional assessment using census data and vital statistics
Relation between income inequality and mortality in Canada and in the United States: cross sectional assessment using census data and vital statistics. To compare the relation between Mortality and i...
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Income, Mortality, Equity, Maternal Mortality, Health Equity, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
A Framework for measuring responsiveness
Responsiveness and fair financing are intrinsic goals that complement health, as goals of the health system. Seven elements of responsiveness have been identified. Discussion during an international c...
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Together against corruption: Designing strategies assessing impact, reforming corrupt institutions
The Conference aims to identify global anti-corruption priorities, develop national and international strategies, exchange experiences in anti-corruption efforts and further develop international co-o...
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Organizational Culture, Human Rights, Democracy, Health Equity, Non-governmental Organization, Accountability, Advocacy
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