Total of resources: 27063

Expenditure issues and governance in Central America

The paper analyzes Central America's track record on inequality, poverty, and quality of fiscal adjustment in relation to economic growth; health and education outcomes; adequacy of social safety nets...
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Resource added in: 09/01/2003
Available languages: English
Poverty, Inequality, Economic Growth

Health indicators for the Washington DC metropolitan area

The report presents a comparable health indicator data for nine jurisdictions. Taking a prevention perspective, the report presents data organized along the lines of the Leading Health Indicators in H...
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Resource added in: 09/01/2003
Available languages: English
Health Indicators

Education for all: is the world on track?

The Report charts progress against the six Dakar goals and targets, highlights effective policies and strategies, and alerts the global community to emerging challenges for action and cooperation. Dra...
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Resource added in: 09/01/2003
Available languages: English
Policies, Reform

Communication for social change: an integrated model for measuring the process and its outcomes

Describes an iterative process where "community dialogue" and "collective action" work together to produce social change in a community that improves the health and welfare of all of its members. It i...
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Resource added in: 09/01/2003
Available languages: English
Health, Welfare

National Cervical Cancer Coalition - NCCC

Presents information on cervical cancer such as rates, programs and issues worldwide, treatments, a list of events and conferences, newsletter and links to other sites related to cervical cancer.
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Resource added in: 09/01/2003
Available languages: Spanish, English
Health Care Coalitions, Cervix Neoplasms/prevention & control

Small area estimation poverty maps: research program

Presents a estimate about welfare indicators for small areas and piloted it with success in several countries, such as Ecuador, Madagascar, Nicaragua, and South Africa. The team is currently working o...
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Resource added in: 09/01/2003
Available languages: English
Poverty, Research

A manual for the poverty and inequality mapper module

The manual provides a guide to the use of the Poverty and Inequality Mapper Module. Its summarizes the module’s purpose, identifies the user-defined inputs, describes how to prepare data for use with...
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Resource added in: 09/01/2003
Available languages: English
Poverty, Inequality

Health and hemispheric security

Presents the importance of human security for national and hemispheric security and itemizes the role and place of health in the preservation of such security. It emphasizes that the regional response...
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Resource added in: 09/01/2003
Available languages: English
Human Security, Advocacy

Sociedad Anticancerosa de Venezuela

Informaciones acerca de la sociedad, actividades que realiza, calendário de eventos y congresos nacionales y internacionales, links para hospitales oncológicos y clínicas de prevención del cáncer...
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Resource added in: 09/01/2003
Available languages: Spanish
Neoplasms, Asociaciones de lucha contra el cancer

Obesidad y Salud

Página de la Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Obesidad con información para pacientes, además de herramientas para calcular el Índice de Masa Corporal, para calcular el riesgo vascular, co...
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Resource added in: 09/01/2003
Available languages: Spanish
Societies, Medical, 52503, Obesity