The decline in child mortality: a reappraisal
"...The paper examines, describes and documents country-specific trends in under-five mortality rates (i.e., mortality among children under five years of age) in the 1990s. Our analysis updates previo...
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19/12/2000
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Child Mortality, Health Equity
Does liberte=egalite? A survey of the empirical evidence on the links between political democracy and income inequality
The relationship between the distribution of political rights and that of economic resources has been studied both theoretically and empirically. This paper reviews the existing literature and, in par...
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18/12/2000
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Civil Rights, Health Equity
El Debate sobre la reforma de la seguridad social: en busca de un nuevo consenso
Los regímenes públicos de pensiones enfrentan estos riesgos suministrando a los jubilados prestaciones mensuales, que se ajustan a la fluctuación de las condiciones económicas.En la mayoría de lo...
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15/12/2000
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Social Security, Retirement, Pensions, Condiciones Económicas, Equidad en acceso de los servicios de salud^util
Relative income, race, and mortality
The central question addressed in this paper is whether mortality is affected by relative income, where relative income is defined as an individual's own income relative to the incomes of those who li...
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15/12/2000
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Evidence-Based Medicine, Income, Mortality, Health Equity, Racial Stocks, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
La Salud en el desarrollo
Discurso inaugural pronunciado por el Profesor Amartya Sen, rector del Trinity College, Cambridge, ante la 52 Asamblea Mundial de la Salud. Mostra la importancia de reconocer el papel decisivo de la r...
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14/12/2000
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Health Equity, Reforma en Atención de la Salud
Mortalidad Infantil un indicador para la gestión local
Este trabajo constituye otro documento de la serie de informes publicados por la Representación OPS/OMS en Argentina, con relación a la evolución de los indicadores de condiciones de vida y de salu...
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14/12/2000
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Social Conditions, Infant Mortality, Epidemiology, Medición, Métodos e indicadores, Equidad en condiciones de vida
Poverty and policy in Latin America and the Caribbean
"...Although the progress toward poverty reduction remains sluggish, other dimensions of social welfare in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region show signs of improvement. Adult literacy and s...
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13/12/2000
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Social Conditions, Poverty, Public Policy, Health Equity
Explaining trends in inequities: evidence from Brazilian child health studies
The hypothesis suggests that good quality public-health programmes for improving child health are more available and being utilised by those families who need them least. The hypothesis also predicts ...
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13/12/2000
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Child Health, Public Health, Equity, Quality Health Care, onditionditionditiondition, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Panorama social de América Latina
Se examinan la creciente vulnerabilidad social que afecta a la población, los principales rasgos del patrón de estratificación ocupacional que surge de las nuevas modalidades de desarrollo, las con...
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12/12/2000
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Population, Old Age Assistance, Riesgos, Servicios de Salud de los Adolescentes, Medición, Métodos e indicadores, Equidad en estado de salud
Relation between income inequality and mortality in Canada and in the United States: cross sectional assessment using census data and vital statistics
Relation between income inequality and mortality in Canada and in the United States: cross sectional assessment using census data and vital statistics. To compare the relation between Mortality and i...
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12/12/2000
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Income, Mortality, Equity, Maternal Mortality, Health Equity, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
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