Principles and Basic Concepts of Equity and Health
...An equity driven approach in health policy making entails a wide vision of the determinants of population health. First it requires considering the broader policy action required to promote health ...
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Social Justice, Health Equity, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Growth Ii good for the poor
Income of the poor rises one-for-one with overall growth. This general relationship between income of the bottom fifth of the population and per capita GDP holds in a sample of 80 countries covering f...
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Poverty, Income, Advocacy, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
The Cost of discrimination in Latin America
The ethnic concentration of poverty and inequality is increasingly being recognized in the development literature. In this paper, studies from six Latin American countries that estimate the costs to a...
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The economic burden of malaria
It presents speculation about the mechanisms that could cause malaria to have such a large impact on the economy, such as foreing investment and economic networks within country. Document in PDF forma...
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Malaria, Health Equity
Women's political participation and good governance: 21st century challenges
Gender equality and the empowerment of women are critical dimensions of the United Nations Development Programme's efforts to help meet the overarching goal of halving world poverty by 2015. The laun...
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Gender Identity, Equity, Poverty, Policy Making
Indigenous People
This site introduces the Indigenous Peoples (IP) Programme and attempts to provide support for indigenous peoples' development initiatives by focusing on the aspirations, the knowledge and the experti...
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Indigenous People, Advocacy
Report on "Domestic Violence Against Women and Girls"
It focuses on domestic violence as one of the most prevalent yet relatively hidden and ignored forms of violence against women and girls globally, and emphasizes the need for coordinated and integrate...
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Domestic Violence, Gender Identity, Health Equity, Battered Women
Health, nutrition and population
As countries refine their poverty reduction strategies, the role of human capital, including health and nutrition, is receiving considerable attention. People become poorer as a result of bad health o...
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Poverty, Health Strategies, 52503, Health Equity, Health Situation, Equity, Living Conditions
The Impact of ethnic heterogeneity on the quantity and quality of public spending
The paper investigates empirically the impact of ethnic heterogeneity on the amount of public spending on health and education and the quality, or "technical efficiency" of spending, While it finds pa...
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Education, Indicators (Statistics), Ethnicity, Investigation, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Health, nutrition and population
As countries refine their poverty reduction strategies, the role of human capital, including health and nutrition, is receiving considerable attention. People become poorer as a result of bad health o...
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