Total of resources: 27044

Medical out-of-pocket spending in poverty thresholds

Two options for including amounts for medical out-of-pocket spending (moop) in poverty thresholds like those proposed by the National Research Council are presented. Using an experimental poverty data...
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Resource added in: 22/03/2001
Available languages: English
Poverty, 51593, Data Collection, Health Expenditure, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions

Early entrance to the job market and its effect on adult health: evidence from Brazil

The debate about the appropriate policy response to child labor is complex, requiring a balance between protecting the health of the child and safeguarding the income of the family. These findings ind...
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Resource added in: 21/03/2001
Available languages: English
Evidence-Based Medicine, Child Health, Health Equity, Equity, Living Conditions

Biblioteca Virtual en Salud de Cuba - BVS Cuba

Presenta información sobre la BVS, vigilancia en salud, atención primaria, medicina en desastres, y permite acceso a bases de datos bibliográficas, a texto completo y numéricas, directorios, revis...
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Resource added in: 21/03/2001
Available languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese
Libraries, Medical, Biological Science Disciplines, Biblioteca virtual em saúde

Equity and the economic evaluation of healthcare

The main conclusion of this project is that existing economic evaluations do not represent an adequate guide to resource allocation decisions when the distributional effects of such decisions may be r...
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Resource added in: 21/03/2001
Available languages: English
Delivery of Health Care, Economics, Allocation, Equity, Living Conditions, Advocacy

Biblioteca Virtual en Salud de Colombia - BVS

Presenta información sobre la BVS y el comité consultivo, y permite acceso a bases bibliográficas, catálogo colectivo de revistas, portal de revistas colombianas, boletín epidemiológico, termino...
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Resource added in: 21/03/2001
Available languages: Spanish
Libraries, Medical, Biological Science Disciplines, Biblioteca virtual em saúde

Biblioteca Virtual en Salud de Costa Rica - BVS

Presenta información sobre la BVS, y permite acceso a bases de datos bibliográficas, revistas en salud, boletines, directorios de instituiciones, especialistas, cursos y eventos, servicios de fotoco...
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Resource added in: 21/03/2001
Available languages: Spanish
Libraries, Medical, Biological Science Disciplines, Biblioteca virtual em saúde

Biblioteca Virtual en Salud - Legislación de Salud

Presenta información acerca de la BVS y el comité consultivo, y permite acceso a bases de datos de leyes, textos completos de legislación, revistas científicas, directorios, terminología en legis...
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Resource added in: 21/03/2001
Available languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese
17550, Legislation, Environmental, Libraries, Digital, Vigilância sanita

Is economic policy health policy?

This economic divide has not gone unnoticed by public health researchers, who have produced a substantial literature documenting and discussing the links between increasing economic inequality and poo...
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Resource added in: 21/03/2001
Available languages: English
Economics, Public Health, Advocacy

Biblioteca Virtual en Salud - Inocuidad de Alimentos

Presenta información sobre la especialización de inocuidad de alimentos en la BVS, enfermedades transmitidas por alimentos, y permite acceso a bases de datos bibliográficas, publicaciones, director...
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Resource added in: 21/03/2001
Available languages: Spanish
Legislation, Food, Food Quality, 28441, Foodborne Diseases

Equidad y salud materno-infantil en Costa Rica

Los siete aspectos de salud materno-infantil analizados son los siguientes: mortalidad; morbilidad; crecimiento y desarrollo; conductas de riesgo; acciones preventivas; conocimientos en salud; y uso d...
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Resource added in: 21/03/2001
Available languages: Spanish
Mortality, Morbidity, Health Status Disparities, Equidad en estado de salud