Benchmarks of fairness for health care reform: A policy tool for developing countries
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We report here on progress we have made toward developing the benchmarks of fairness into a policy tool that will be useful in developing countries for analyzing the overall fairness of health care...
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Reforma de la Atención de Salud, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
How equitable is public spending on health and education?
This paper contributes to Chapter 2 of WDR 2000/1-specifically the part of the chapter which will argue that successful poverty reduction is related to public investment in basic health and education....
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Política Pública, Financiación Gubernamental, Educación, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
State income inequality, household income, and maternal mental and physical health: cross sectional national survey
"... The joint effect of income inequality and household income on health has received limited attention. On p 1311 Kahn et al focus on symptoms of depression and self reported health among a large sa...
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Bienestar Materno, Renta, Income Poverty, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions
Social capital and community governance
".... Propose an alternative framework, which we term "community governance." We begin with some examples, and present a simple model and some experimental evidence demonstrating the plausibility of ...
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Política, Advocacy
The Colonial origins of comparative development: An empirical investigation
".... We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very differen...
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Mortalidad, Advocacy
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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Disparidades en el Estado de Salud, 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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Disparidades en el Estado de Salud, 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, Formulación de Políticas, 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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Clase Social, Factores Socioeconómicos, Enfermedad Coronaria, Equidad en Salud
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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Seguro de Salud, Equidad en Salud, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
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