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Narrowing social inequalities in health?

"To examine trends in mortality among babies registered solely by their mother (lone mothers) and to compare these with trends in infant mortality for couple registrations overall and couple registrat...
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Resource added in: 11/12/2000
Available languages: English
Evidence-Based Medicine, Infant Mortality, Health Status Disparities, Health Equity

The health costs of war: can they be measured?

Studies assessing the health impact of armed conflicts have documented the disruption of referrals, immunization programs, supplies, and monitoring and surveillance and increase dependence on foreign ...
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Resource added in: 11/12/2000
Available languages: English
Health Equity, Primary Health, Health impact, Advocacy

Global public–private partnerships: part I – a new development in health?

The latter half of the 1990s witnessed a burgeoning number of initiatives involving collaboration between the corporate and public sectors with the purpose of overcoming market and public "failures" o...
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Resource added in: 11/12/2000
Available languages: English
Healthcare Financing, Health Equity, Advocacy, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util

A Framework for measuring health inequality

Health inequalities are prominent in the policy agenda. Average achievement is no longer considered a sufficient indicator of a country'sperformance on health; rather, the distribution of health in th...
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Resource added in: 11/12/2000
Available languages: English
Health, 50334, Policy, Health Systems, Economics, Measuring, Methods and Indicators

Guidelines for the analysis of gender and health

It provides introduction to concepts of gender and health and outlines the different ways in which gender affects health a gender analysis framework for conducting detailed situation specific gender a...
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Resource added in: 11/12/2000
Available languages: English
Gender and Health

Narrowing social inequalities in health?

\"To examine trends in mortality among babies registered solely by their mother (lone mothers) and to compare these with trends in infant mortality for couple registrations overall and couple registra...
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Resource added in: 11/12/2000
Available languages: English
Infant Mortality, Health Status Disparities, Health Equity

Principles and Basic Concepts of Equity and Health

...An equity driven approach in health policy making entails a wide vision of the determinants of population health. First it requires considering the broader policy action required to promote health ...
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Resource added in: 08/12/2000
Available languages: English
Social Justice, Health Equity, Measuring, Methods and Indicators

The Cost of discrimination in Latin America

The ethnic concentration of poverty and inequality is increasingly being recognized in the development literature. In this paper, studies from six Latin American countries that estimate the costs to a...
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Resource added in: 08/12/2000
Available languages: English
Ethnicity, Poverty, Health Status Disparities, Minority Groups, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Advocacy, onditionditionditiondition

The economic burden of malaria

It presents speculation about the mechanisms that could cause malaria to have such a large impact on the economy, such as foreing investment and economic networks within country. Document in PDF forma...
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Resource added in: 08/12/2000
Available languages: English
Malaria, Health Equity

Report on "Domestic Violence Against Women and Girls"

It focuses on domestic violence as one of the most prevalent yet relatively hidden and ignored forms of violence against women and girls globally, and emphasizes the need for coordinated and integrate...
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Resource added in: 08/12/2000
Available languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian
Domestic Violence, Gender Identity, Health Equity, Battered Women