Visible hands: Taking responsibility for social development
UNRISD commissioned over 50 researchers from 35 countries to look into the social effects of institutional and policy reforms of the 1990s. Their work forms the basis for this UNRISD report.This repor...
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16081, 23927, Advocacy
International comparators and poverty and health in Europe
We are conducting a programme of research that addresses two types of question: the reasons for health inequalities between the countries of eastern and western Europe and the reasons for inequalities...
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Poverty, Health Status Disparities, Equity, Living Conditions, 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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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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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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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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Environment, Ecosystem, Health Equity
The State of World Population 2000: Lives together, worlds apart men and women in a time of change
Inequality between women and men limits the potential of individuals, families, communities and nations. Ending gender discrimination is an urgent human rights and development priority, says The State...
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Gender Identity, Human Rights, Inequality, Discrimination, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Making transition work for everyone: Poverty and inequality in Europe and Central Asia
"Making Transition work for Everyone: Poverty and Inequality in Europe and Central Asia" brings together the latest findings on the nature and evolution of poverty and inequality in the region."Making...
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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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Health Status Disparities, Research, Health Equity
Rewriting the regulations: how the World Trade Organisation could accelerate privatisation in health-care systems
It has been a year since the World Trade Organization (WTO) met in Seattle under siege by protesters claiming that unrelenting globalization of trade is adversely affecting the economies of developing...
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Public Health, Developing Countries, Economics, WTO, Public Services, Advocacy