Towards better stewardship: concepts and critical issues
This paper reports current World Health Organization work on stewardship. Also it reviews related work in health and other sectors, and presents WHO s current thinking on domain / sub functions ...
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03/07/2002
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16672, Health Care Reform, Equity, Living Conditions, Advocacy, Policies
Simposio 2001: Violencia de género, salud y derechos en las Américas - informe final.
Incluye el relato de las experiencias analizadas en la reunión y las recomendaciones sobre políticas públicas, legislación, programas y servicios, información, comunicación y educación, capacit...
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02/07/2002
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English, Spanish
Violence, Domestic Violence, Gender Identity, Health, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Anais de congresso
Anuário Estatístico do Estado de São Paulo
Elaborado pela Fundação SEADE, o Anuário disponibiliza um conjunto de informações sobre o Estado de São Paulo e suas regiões, de 1994 a 2001, reunidas por capítulos: agricultura, caracterizaç...
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01/07/2002
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Portuguese
Public Health, Demography, Statistics as Topic, Population Characteristics, Vital Statistics, Mortality, Morbidity, Sanitation, Housing, Environment
New report examines systems that rate the strength of scientific research studies and their findings
This report identifies and compares systems that rate the quality of evidence in individual research studies and compilations of studies addressing a common scientific issue. Also provides guidance on...
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01/07/2002
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Research, Evidence-Based Medicine, Use of Scientific Information for Health Decision Making, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Uso de resultados de investigación
Evidence report/Technology assessment: Number 47. Systems to rate the strength of scientific evidence
The authors, identify the titles and abstracts for a total of 1.602 publications related to rating the quality of studies and the overall strength of evidence.
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01/07/2002
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Evidence-Based Medicine, Quality of Health Care, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Health perfonmance assesment, /Practice, Management, Media
Addressing inequity in health and health care In Mexico
This paper presents the inequities of the health care system and describes how it contributes to the status quo rather than redressing the situation. After tracing the origins of the present system, a...
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01/07/2002
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Health Care Reform, Social Security, Equity in Access to Health Services, Insurance, Health, Health Status Disparities, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
British Geriatrics Society
It presents institutional information, news, training events, meetings schedule, information on grants, submission of abstracts, and Special Interest Group - SIG. It allows access to publications on g...
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30/06/2002
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Aged, Health of the Elderly, Aging, Geriatrics
British Society for Research on Ageing - BSRA
It presents institutional information, the BSRA's annual meeting agenda, information about publications and subscriptions. It allows access to an example copy of the BSRA's journal "Lifespan". The doc...
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30/06/2002
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Aged, Health of the Elderly, Geriatrics, Aging, Associações e sociedades internacionais
British Society of Gerontology - BSG
It presents institutional information, the BSG's annual conference agenda, events, information about subscriptions, publications, and research directory. It allows access to publications on gerontolog...
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30/06/2002
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Aged, Health of the Elderly, Geriatrics, Aging
Austrian Society for Geriatrics and Gerontology
It presents institutional information, links for other institutions, course program, information about events, grant of award for research projects, Society's journal, and other activities in geriatri...
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30/06/2002
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Aged, Health of the Elderly, Aging, Geriatrics