Web education Internet information skills for medics
A set of free "teach yourself" tutorials delivered over the Web for students, lecturers and researchers who want to learn what the Internet can offer in their subject. All the materials you need are t...
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Tutorials, Advocacy
What do we mean by geographic aspects?
"Poverty maps" allow the visualization of the incidence and magnitude of poverty across space. This web site of the World Bank covers topics of geographic aspects of inequality and poverty as componen...
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Poverty, 16124, 29161, Policy Making, Inequality, onditionditionditiondition
World Development Report (WDR) 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty
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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Poverty, Economics, Natural Disasters, Vulnerability Analysis, Health Equity
Ethnography and health care
Ethnography is a complex and contested activity drawing on a range of epistemological positions and methods and often demanding different modes of evaluation from other methods more commonly used in h...
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Anthropology, Cultural, Knowledge, Research, Delivery of Health Care, Equity, Living Condition
Health Economics/Health Inequality
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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Health Status Disparities, 16672, Health Equity, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Gasto y financiamiento en salud: situación y tendencias
"...Being knowledgeable about national health expenditures and sources of financing is essential for decision-making. This awareness also makes it possible to evaluate the equity of allocation and the...
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Health Expenditures, Financing, Health, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Information systems: the key to evidence-based health practice
How to approach the utilization of clinical and management health information is still a complex, chaotic, and controversial issue. It is not surprising that many expectations regarding the contributi...
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Evidence-Based Medicine, 28568, Data Collection, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Visible hands: Taking responsibility for social development
UNRISD commissioned over 50 researchers from 35 countries to look into the social effects of institutional and policy reforms of the 1990s. Their work forms the basis for this UNRISD report.This repor...
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16081, 23927, Advocacy
International comparators and poverty and health in Europe
We are conducting a programme of research that addresses two types of question: the reasons for health inequalities between the countries of eastern and western Europe and the reasons for inequalities...
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Poverty, Health Status Disparities, Equity, Living Conditions, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Dying for growth: Global inequality and the health of the poor
"...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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Health Status Disparities, Poverty, Health Equity, Equity, Living Conditions
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