Promoting health: intervention strategies from social and behavioral research (2000)
Paper prepared for a conference on "Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral Research to Improve the Public's Health" sponsored by The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences an...
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Health Status Disparities, Racial Discrimination, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
Why reduce health inequalities?
Inequalities in health are undesirable to the extent that they are unfair, or unjust. Distinguishing between health inequalities and health inequities can be contentious. Our view is that inequalities...
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Health Status Disparities, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Valuation and evaluation: Measuring the quality of life and evaluating policy
"...This paper is about measuring social well-being and evaluating policy. Part I is concerned with the links between the two, while Parts II and III, respectively, are devoted to the development of ...
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51780, Policy Making, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Cross sectional study of differences in coronary artery calcification by socioeconomic status
"...Socioeconomic differences in coronary heart disease already exist in people in there 30's... The relative contribution of socioeconomic differences in risk factors in adulthood versus earlier life...
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Social Class, Socioeconomic Factors, Coronary Disease, Health Equity
Chile health insurance issues: Old age and catastrophic health costs
This paper analyzes Chilean data in search of answers to questions about the effects on health care costs of population aging and of catastrophic events. Its main purpose is to ground current discussi...
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Insurance, Health, Health Equity, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
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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