Reinvigorating public health
Health inequalities are increasingly on the public-health agenda, and halving the number of people living in absolute poverty by the year 2015--the main international development goal--would do more t...
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50334, Public Health, Poverty, Population, Advocacy
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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Population, Old Age Assistance, Riesgos, Servicios de Salud de los Adolescentes, Medición, Métodos e indicadores, Equidad en estado de salud
An Annotated bibliography on indicators for the determinants of health
This annotated bibliography was developed in the winter of 1999 for the Atlantic and Manitoba/Saskatchewan Regional Offices of the Health Promotion and Programs Branch as an initial step in developing...
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Health Promotion, Policy Making, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
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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Income, Mortality, Equity, Maternal Mortality, Health Equity, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
A Framework for measuring responsiveness
Responsiveness and fair financing are intrinsic goals that complement health, as goals of the health system. Seven elements of responsiveness have been identified. Discussion during an international c...
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Health Systems, Human Rights, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Estimating Household Health Expenditures
"... In most developing countries household health spending accounts for the largest single source of financing entering the health sector. Accurate estimation of this critical part of the sector's f...
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Household health, Household survey, Global, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions
Together against corruption: Designing strategies assessing impact, reforming corrupt institutions
The Conference aims to identify global anti-corruption priorities, develop national and international strategies, exchange experiences in anti-corruption efforts and further develop international co-o...
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Organizational Culture, Human Rights, Democracy, Health Equity, Non-governmental Organization, Accountability, Advocacy
Narrowing social inequalities in health?
"To examine trends in mortality among babies registered solely by their mother (lone mothers) and to compare these with trends in infant mortality for couple registrations overall and couple registrat...
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Evidence-Based Medicine, Infant Mortality, Health Status Disparities, Health Equity
The health costs of war: can they be measured?
Studies assessing the health impact of armed conflicts have documented the disruption of referrals, immunization programs, supplies, and monitoring and surveillance and increase dependence on foreign ...
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Health Equity, Primary Health, Health impact, Advocacy
The Progress of Nations 2000
This publication describes what becomes possible when nations invest in children's wellbeing and protect their rights. Millions of children are now less likely to be left mentally impaired because of ...
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Children, Advocacy, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
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