Canadian Cancer Society
Presents the organization and brings information regarding to cancer, the currient research and studies, a cancer glossary, statistics related to the incidence and mortality of the most common types o...
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Neoplasms/prevention & control, Neoplasms/diagnosis, Neoplasms/epidemiology, Asociaciones de lucha contra el cancer, Redpac
Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention - ACCP
The Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention is a group of five international organizations brought together by their capabilities and experience in global cervical cancer prevention.
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cervix neoplasms/ prevention & control
Kids DevNews
In an effort to reach out and educate young people about the latest issues in development, the World Bank has launched Kids DevNews, a monthly online publication geared toward 10-15 year olds. Each is...
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Education
Measuring total health inequality: adding individual variation to group-level differences
Some of the potential implications of this article include a research program devoted to developing and improving measures of health inequality, a substantial change in data collection efforts by publ...
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Research, Inequality, Policies
Influence and opportunity: reflections on the U.S. role in global public health
Today's global health crisis illustrates many of the transnational governance challenges the United States faces today. In the arena of global health, the United States can create a new role for itsel...
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Global Health
World report on violence and health
The Report examines a broad spectrum of violence including child abuse and neglect by caregivers, youth violence, violence by intimate partners, sexual violence, elder abuse, suicide, and collective v...
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Violence, Child Abuse, Policy
International Union Against Cancer - UICC
Presents informations about the organization, calendar of global conferences and cancer congress, National cancer control planning and links to other cancer sites.
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Neoplasms/prevention & control, Neoplasms/diagnosis, Asociaciones de lucha contra el cancer, Redpac
Olimpíada Brasileira da Saúde e do Meio Ambiente
Trata-se de uma competição de caráter educativo, que dá ênfase a trabalhos criativos e inéditos.
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Adolescent, Environment, Health, Education
Expenditure issues and governance in Central America
The paper analyzes Central America's track record on inequality, poverty, and quality of fiscal adjustment in relation to economic growth; health and education outcomes; adequacy of social safety nets...
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Poverty, Inequality, Economic Growth
Health indicators for the Washington DC metropolitan area
The report presents a comparable health indicator data for nine jurisdictions. Taking a prevention perspective, the report presents data organized along the lines of the Leading Health Indicators in H...
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Health Indicators