Exploring the effects of health care on mortality across OECD countries
This paper explores the effect of variations in the volume of health care and in certain characteristics of health systems on mortality across 21 OECD countries over the past 25 years, after controlli...
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15/03/2001
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Delivery of Health Care, Health Systems, Mortality, Health Care Rationing, Health Equity
Creating and using national health accounts for health finance reform
The workshop will provide a solid overview of health financing issues and recent developments with reform strategies for lower income countries. In addition, the program will provide training in the i...
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23/02/2001
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English
Healthcare Financing, Health Policy, Health Equity, Health Reform, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
The State of Food and Agriculture 2000/World Food and Agriculture: lessons for the last 50 years
SOFA 2000's retrospective illustrates how technological progress has increased food production and reduced the number of hungry around the world. Thirty years ago, 960 million people didn't have enou...
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11/01/2001
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English
Food, Agriculture, Health Equity, Advocacy
Older people in disasters and humanitarian crises: guidelines for best practice
".... Aimed at helping relief agencies meet the special needs of older people in emergencies. Guidelines give examples of key approaches and actions that could help the humanitarian community reduce t...
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08/01/2001
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English, Spanish
Aged, Health Effects of Disasters, Health Equity, Disasters Emergencies
Primera conferencia mundial de la ISEqH
Propósitos de la ISEq:- Promover la equidad en salud y en los servicios de salud a nivel internacional- Facilitar el intercambio científico de conocimientos conceptuales y metodológicos sobre t...
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03/01/2001
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Spanish
Equity, Abogacía
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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27/12/2000
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Human Rights, Legislation, Health Equity, Advocacy
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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27/12/2000
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Disease Outbreaks, Health Equity, Acquired Immunodeficiency
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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26/12/2000
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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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26/12/2000
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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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26/12/2000
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Child Health, Health Equity
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