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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Child Health, Health Equity
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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Economic Development, Health Equity
Protecting human health in a changing world: the role of social and economic development
The aim in this paper is to distinguish between socioeconomic aspects of development that are likely to be protective and those that are likely to increase vulnerability (the capacity for loss resulti...
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Environment and Public Health, Physical Environment, Advocacy
Web education Internet information skills for medics
A set of free "teach yourself" tutorials delivered over the Web for students, lecturers and researchers who want to learn what the Internet can offer in their subject. All the materials you need are t...
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Tutorials, Advocacy
What do we mean by geographic aspects?
"Poverty maps" allow the visualization of the incidence and magnitude of poverty across space. This web site of the World Bank covers topics of geographic aspects of inequality and poverty as componen...
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Poverty, 16124, 29161, Policy Making, Inequality, onditionditionditiondition
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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Poverty, Economics, Natural Disasters, Vulnerability Analysis, Health Equity
Ethnography and health care
Ethnography is a complex and contested activity drawing on a range of epistemological positions and methods and often demanding different modes of evaluation from other methods more commonly used in h...
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Anthropology, Cultural, Knowledge, Research, Delivery of Health Care, Equity, Living Condition
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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Health Status Disparities, 16672, Health Equity, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Gasto y financiamiento en salud: situación y tendencias
"...Being knowledgeable about national health expenditures and sources of financing is essential for decision-making. This awareness also makes it possible to evaluate the equity of allocation and the...
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Health Expenditures, Financing, Health, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Information systems: the key to evidence-based health practice
How to approach the utilization of clinical and management health information is still a complex, chaotic, and controversial issue. It is not surprising that many expectations regarding the contributi...
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Evidence-Based Medicine, 28568, Data Collection, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
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