Local perspectives: foreign aid to the justice sector
Human rights are central to development. Progress cannot be measured in economic terms alone. Moreover, economic progress itself only proceeds in a sustainable way when it is grounded in concern for h...
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Direitos Humanos, Legislação, Equidade em Saúde, Advocacy
State of the World's Children 2001
Drawing on reports from the world over, The State of the World's Children 2001 details the daily lives of parents and other caregivers who are striving - in the face of war, poverty and the HIV/AIDS e...
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Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida, Pobreza, Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida, Children, Advocacy
Eliminating world poverty: Making globalization work for the poor
One in five of the world's population - two thirds of them women - lives in abject poverty, in a world of growing material plenty. The new millennium offers a real opportunity to eliminate world pove...
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Pobreza, Mulheres, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
Comparative analyses of more than 50 household surveys on health status
This study is to determine whether existing data sources from household interview based surveys conducted in a large number of countries may be used towards estimating the distribution and levels of s...
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Coleta de Dados, Condições Sociais, Pesquisas sobre Atenção à Saúde, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^ut
Health impact assessment
HIA's strength lies in providing a tool which enables informed policy decisions to be made based on a valid assessment of their potential health impacts, at the same time adding health awareness to po...
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Políticas de Controle Social, 32465, Formulação de Políticas, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Path independent inequality measures
This paper explores a natural decomposition requirement for inequality measures, motivated by Shorrocks and Anand, which we call path independent decomposability. Given a collection of population subg...
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Equidade, 35144, Renda, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
HIV and AIDS in Americas: an epidemic with many faces
As the HIV epidemic enters its third decade, the challenges it poses to families, to societies, to governments and to science continue to grow. The more we learn about HIV and the behaviors that spre...
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Surtos de Doenças, Equidade em Saúde, Acquired Immunodeficiency
Benchmarks of fairness for health care reform: A policy tool for developing countries
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We report here on progress we have made toward developing the benchmarks of fairness into a policy tool that will be useful in developing countries for analyzing the overall fairness of health care...
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Reforma dos Serviços de Saúde, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
How equitable is public spending on health and education?
This paper contributes to Chapter 2 of WDR 2000/1-specifically the part of the chapter which will argue that successful poverty reduction is related to public investment in basic health and education....
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Política Pública, Financiamento Governamental, Educação, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
State income inequality, household income, and maternal mental and physical health: cross sectional national survey
"... The joint effect of income inequality and household income on health has received limited attention. On p 1311 Kahn et al focus on symptoms of depression and self reported health among a large sa...
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Bem-Estar Materno, Renda, Income Poverty, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions
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