The impact of globalization on infectious disease emergence and control. April 16 - 17, 2002. Workshop Description
"The Impact of Globalization on Infectious Disease Emergence and Control" starting at 9 am EDT Tuesday, April 16, 2002. The two-day workshop, held by the Forum on Emerging Infections examines the impa...
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Communicable Diseases/prevention & control, Economic Development, Globalization, Advocacy
Voices of the poor: Reports
Voices of the Poor consists of three books which bring together the experiences of over 60,000 poor women and men. The first book, Can Anyone Hear Us?, gathers the voices of over 40,000 poor women and...
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Poverty, Gender inequity, Advocacy, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Género: La cuestión está en las diferencias de la discriminación y exclusión por género en materia de salud en Colombia
La autora presenta en el presente artículo la discriminación y exclusión por género en materia de salud. Presenta un analisis de la doctora Amparo Hernández Bello, especialista directora de postg...
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Gender Identity, Discriminacion, Desigualdades, Equidad en condiciones de vida, Equidad en acceso de los servicios de salud^, util
Improving health care for the poor
This article is about the $27.1 million credit the World bank approves for health system reform in Honduras to support government policies aimed at extending health care to the poor in Honduras and en...
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Poverty, Financing, Health, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^, util, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
Waterthe essence of life, but still elusive to many
This article is about the importance of water for human needs and how Improving water supply and sanitation service delivery is crucial in the quest to reduce poverty and diseases.
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Water Quality, 16407, Water Purification, Human Rights, Human Development, Sanitation, Equity, Living Conditions
Social exclusion in urban Uruguay
This article presents the increase of poor exclusion from the rest of society in Uruguay.It explains how in many developing countries the characteristics of the urban poor go beyond the traditional ...
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Poverty, Policy Making, Social exclusion, Equity, Living Conditions, Advocacy
Amamentação e medicação materna: recomendações sobre drogas da 8ª lista de medicamentos da OMS
Apresenta a lista básica de medicamentos, sua classificação e instruções de como usá-la durante o período de amamentação. A lista, elaborada pela Organização Mundial da Saúde, inclui anest...
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Public Health, Breast Feeding, Pharmaceutical Preparations, MEDICAMENTOS, VACINAS E INSUMOS
Consumer demand for caesarean sections in Brazil: informed decision making, patient choice, or social inequality? A population based birth cohort study linking ethnographic and epidemiological methods
The objetive of this paper is to investigate why some women prefer cesarean sections and how decisions to medicalise birthing are influenced by patients, doctors, and the sociomedical environment. BMJ...
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Cesarean Section, Delivery of Health Care, Pregnacy, Health Care Quality, Equity, Health services Accessibility^util, Equity, Living Conditions
The limits of psychiatry. Education and debate
The author presents in this arthicle that psychiatry should temper and complement a biological view with psychological and social understanding, thus recognising the uncertainties of clinical practice...
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Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Advocacy
The legacies of collective violence. The Rwandan genocide and the limits of law
This paper presents race and imprisonment in Rwanda and Yugoslavia inthe twenty-first-century...."Much evidence from the former Yugoslavia and Rwandatwo areas devastated by ethnic cleansing and geno...
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Violence, Human Rights, Legislation & jurisprudence, Advocacy
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