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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"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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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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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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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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"...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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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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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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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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"...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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