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Relation between income inequality and mortality in Canada and in the United States: cross sectional assessment using census data and vital statistics

Relation between income inequality and mortality in Canada and in the United States: cross sectional assessment using census data and vital statistics. To compare the relation between Mortality and i...
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Resource added in: 12/12/2000
Available languages: English
Income, Mortality, Equity, Maternal Mortality, Health Equity, Measuring, Methods and Indicators

A Framework for measuring responsiveness

Responsiveness and fair financing are intrinsic goals that complement health, as goals of the health system. Seven elements of responsiveness have been identified. Discussion during an international c...
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Resource added in: 12/12/2000
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Health Systems, Human Rights, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util

Estimating Household Health Expenditures

"... In most developing countries household health spending accounts for the largest single source of financing entering the health sector. Accurate estimation of this critical part of the sector's f...
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Resource added in: 12/12/2000
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Household health, Household survey, Global, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions

Together against corruption: Designing strategies assessing impact, reforming corrupt institutions

The Conference aims to identify global anti-corruption priorities, develop national and international strategies, exchange experiences in anti-corruption efforts and further develop international co-o...
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Resource added in: 12/12/2000
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Organizational Culture, Human Rights, Democracy, Health Equity, Non-governmental Organization, Accountability, Advocacy

Narrowing social inequalities in health?

"To examine trends in mortality among babies registered solely by their mother (lone mothers) and to compare these with trends in infant mortality for couple registrations overall and couple registrat...
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Resource added in: 11/12/2000
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Evidence-Based Medicine, Infant Mortality, Health Status Disparities, Health Equity

The health costs of war: can they be measured?

Studies assessing the health impact of armed conflicts have documented the disruption of referrals, immunization programs, supplies, and monitoring and surveillance and increase dependence on foreign ...
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Resource added in: 11/12/2000
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Health Equity, Primary Health, Health impact, Advocacy

The Progress of Nations 2000

This publication describes what becomes possible when nations invest in children's wellbeing and protect their rights. Millions of children are now less likely to be left mentally impaired because of ...
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Resource added in: 11/12/2000
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Children, Advocacy, Measuring, Methods and Indicators

Global public–private partnerships: part I – a new development in health?

The latter half of the 1990s witnessed a burgeoning number of initiatives involving collaboration between the corporate and public sectors with the purpose of overcoming market and public "failures" o...
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Resource added in: 11/12/2000
Available languages: English
Healthcare Financing, Health Equity, Advocacy, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util

A Framework for measuring health inequality

Health inequalities are prominent in the policy agenda. Average achievement is no longer considered a sufficient indicator of a country'sperformance on health; rather, the distribution of health in th...
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Resource added in: 11/12/2000
Available languages: English
Health, 50334, Policy, Health Systems, Economics, Measuring, Methods and Indicators

Guidelines for the analysis of gender and health

It provides introduction to concepts of gender and health and outlines the different ways in which gender affects health a gender analysis framework for conducting detailed situation specific gender a...
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Resource added in: 11/12/2000
Available languages: English
Gender and Health