Report of the WHO Depleted Uranium Mission to Kosovo
It presents a background of the Mission, and information on the situation found in Kosovo, depleted uranium and titanium characteristics, Mission aproach, assessment of health information system and h...
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Uranium/radiation effects, Titanium/radiation effects, Radiation Exposure, Radiation Exposure Pathways, Toxicology, madosrmadosrmados
Radiation Emergency Medical Preparedness and Assistance Network - REMPAN
It presents information related to infrastructure, objetives and activities, collaborating centres, actions, types of assistance provided, follow-up studies, and regular meetings.
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Radiation, Radiation Control, Radioactive Hazard Release/prevention & control, Emergencies, Health Promotion, Toxicology
Building a healthy city: a practitioners' guide - a step by step approach to implementing healthy city projects in low-income countries.
It presents information on urbanisation and health, basic concepts of Healthy Cities, project implementation, partnerships and settings, expected outputs, and evaluation. Document in pdf format; Acrob...
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Healthy City, Urbanization, Environmental Health, Health Promotion, Reference Books, Guia [tipo de publicação]
World Development Indicators 2001
The book contains new tables on social indicators of poverty and global environmental issues. This year's edition retains the basic thematic presentation with six sections covering worldview, people, ...
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Poverty, Economic Indexes, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Human capital convergence: International evidence
In the growth literature, evidence on income convergence is mixed. In the development literature, health and education indicators are also often used. This study examines whether health and education ...
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Education, Investments, Health Status Indicators, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions
Analyzing inequality - Resources and changes: exploitation and discrimination
Inequality is a theme that has been endlessly explored in areas from the Bible to modern-day economic analysis. But are we any closers to understanding the nature of inequality? This paper, provides a...
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Equity, Equity, Living Conditions
Diez falacias sobre los problemas sociales de América Latina
El análisis se basa en amplia data estadística reciente sobre la situación social de América Latina, y en "el estado del arte" a nivel internacional en la discusión sobre el desarrollo. La últim...
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23927, Economic Development, Statistical Data, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions
Health services under the General Agreement on Trade in Services
The present paper provides an overview of the basic structure of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and of the patterns of current commitments in health services and of limitations freq...
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Health Services, Health Policy, cemmerce, icesrvicesrvicesrvicesrvices, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Under the Weather: Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease
Climate changes can clearly influence many infectious diseases, but it is not yet possible to determine whether global warming will cause diseases to spread. Although some studies have linked higher i...
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Communicable Diseases, Health Equity, Equity, Living Conditions
Critical choices: The United Nations, networks, and the future of global governance
Critical Choices outlines promising ways of how global public policy networks can help to meet the governance challenges of the 21st century and equips policymakers with a practical toolbox to manage ...
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Public Policy, Decision Making, Globalization, Advocacy
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