Pan American Journal of Public Health
The special issue provides an up-to-date analysis of how countries in the Region of the Americas are changing their health care systems in order to promote more effective health services and more equi...
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Delivery of Health Care, Public Health, Health Care Reform, Electronic Journals, Analysis, Advocacy
Social capital and poverty
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There is growing empirical evidence that social capital contributes significantly to sustainable development. Sustainability is to leave future generations as many, or more, opportunities as we ou...
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Poverty, Social Conditions, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions
Corruption and the provision of health care and education services
The theoretical literature identifies three channels through which this can happen. (Au)The results have four important policy implications in light of the dominant role played by governments in the p...
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Health Services, Economy, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util, Advocacy
Health promoting bridging the equity gap
A World Health Organization (WHO) publication of approximately 15 case studies from developing countries illustrating practical initiatives and interventions that have been shown to improve the lives ...
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50345, Equity, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Socioeconomic Inequalitites in Child Mortality: Comparisons across Nine Developing Countries
Abstract\".. An estimate of poor-rich differences in infant and under-five mortality for nine developing countries, based on household survey data. The differences were large enough to be statisticall...
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Developing Countries, Health Services, Infant Mortality, Socioeconomic Factors, Sevices Accessibility, Equity, Living Conditions, Social Justic, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Role of private sector in United Kingdom healthcare system
Over 12 million people in the United Kingdom are covered for private health care. The private sector already provides many services for the National Health System (NHS), such a psychiatric care and l...
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Private Sector, Health Systems, Insurance Coverage, Disabilities, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Embarazo en la Adolescencia
Informaciones cerca del embarazo en la adolescencia,causas, incidencia y fatores de riesgo, prevención, síntomas de embarazo, pruebas y test, tratamiento, pronóstico, complicaciones.
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Pregnancy in Adolescence, Adolescent
Reinvigorating public health
Health inequalities are increasingly on the public-health agenda, and halving the number of people living in absolute poverty by the year 2015--the main international development goal--would do more t...
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50334, Public Health, Poverty, Population, Advocacy
Panorama social de América Latina
Se examinan la creciente vulnerabilidad social que afecta a la población, los principales rasgos del patrón de estratificación ocupacional que surge de las nuevas modalidades de desarrollo, las con...
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Population, Old Age Assistance, Riesgos, Servicios de Salud de los Adolescentes, Medición, Métodos e indicadores, Equidad en estado de salud
An Annotated bibliography on indicators for the determinants of health
This annotated bibliography was developed in the winter of 1999 for the Atlantic and Manitoba/Saskatchewan Regional Offices of the Health Promotion and Programs Branch as an initial step in developing...
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