Resources found: 277

Chile's rapid growth in the 1990's-good policies, good luck, or political change?

This paper assesses empirically the main hypotheses suggested in the literature about the factors underlying this rapid growth: good economic policies, good luck in the external sector, and the countr...
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Resource added in: 26/12/2000
Available languages: English
Economic Development, Health Equity

World Development Report (WDR) 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty

Poor people live without fundamental freedoms of action and choice that the better off take for granted. They often lack adequate food and shelter, education and health, deprivations that keep them fr...
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Resource added in: 21/12/2000
Available languages: English
Poverty, Economics, Natural Disasters, Vulnerability Analysis, Health Equity

Health Economics/Health Inequality

The edition of Health Economics, Volume 9, Issue 7, 2000 has a special section on Health Inequalities, contains the following papers:- Towards multidisciplinary research into health inequalities /Oliv...
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Resource added in: 21/12/2000
Available languages: English
Health Status Disparities, 16672, Health Equity, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util

Dying for growth: Global inequality and the health of the poor

"...Dying for Growth's sixteen chapters are grounded in the lives of people struggling against a very modem poverty. The volume opens with case studies illustrating the human impact of harsh, externa...
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Resource added in: 21/12/2000
Available languages: English
Health Status Disparities, Poverty, Health Equity, Equity, Living Conditions

Negociación del desarrollo sanitario

Este libro se ha organizado alrededor de dos conjuntos de ideas. El primer conjunto de ideas desglosa un proceso característico de desarrollo sanitario en cuatro componentes. Encontramos que es útil...
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Resource added in: 21/12/2000
Available languages: Spanish
Health Status, Negotiating, Equidad en condiciones de vida, Abogacía

Towards a new concept of health: Three discussion papers

The three papers in this volume reflect an intellectual itinerary, the record of a search for a fresh understanding of health. Aristotle is the first stop along the way, but the authors go on to exami...
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Resource added in: 21/12/2000
Available languages: English
Social Environment, Mortality, Public Policy, 16081, Morbidity, Health Equity, Health Care System, Equity, Living Conditions

World resources 2000-2001/people and ecosystems: The fraying Web of life

World Resources 2000-2001, the definitive guides to the global environment. The latest edition, focusing on People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life was presented to the world's environment mini...
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Resource added in: 21/12/2000
Available languages: English, Spanish
Environment, Ecosystem, Health Equity

Scholars In Health Disparities Program: supported by a grant from The W.K. Kellogg Foundation

The Center for the Advancement of Health (CFAD) has received a $1.5 million, three-year grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to train a new generation of minority scientists in researching causes o...
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Resource added in: 21/12/2000
Available languages: English
Health Status Disparities, Research, Health Equity

Social inequalities in health: New Zealand 1999

To achieve health and independence objectives, the Government requires reliable and valid information on population health outcomes, how equitably these outcomes are distributed across subgroups of th...
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Resource added in: 20/12/2000
Available languages: English
50334, Health Equity

Policy futures for UK health 2000 report

This report is the outcome of a research project, established to explore future trends and issues in population health and health care in the United Kingdom forward to 2015. The aim of the project is ...
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Resource added in: 20/12/2000
Available languages: English
Public Policy, Health Equity, ealthHealthHealth, Advocacy