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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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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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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"...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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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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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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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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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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To achieve health and independence objectives, the Government requires reliable and valid information on population health outcomes, how equitably these outcomes are distributed across subgroups of th...
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This report is the outcome of a research project, established to explore future trends and issues in population health and health care in the United Kingdom forward to 2015. The aim of the project is ...
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