Este artículo compara los retos de los sistemas sanitarios latinoamericanos y la experiencia en Europa. El marco conceptual se centra en cuatro funciones: a) generar recursos; b) producir intervenci...
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The report examines the variables and methodology used by the World Health Organization to measure efficiency and performance of health systems. Presents the cases of South Africa and the United State...
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This paper asks whether and to what extent evaluative research on public health interventions can be adequately appraised by applying well established criteria for judging the quality of evidence in c...
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This article offers some ideas about how the international human right to health, established in a variety of sources of international human rights law and general international law, creates a right t...
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According to the author, evidence shows (in seven of eight different measures used) that world income distribution has varying degrees of increasing inequality in the past twenty years. The causes of ...
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This article offers some ideas about how evidence favoring a negative correlation between income inequality and life expectancy has disappeared. It presents the findings in analyses looking at income ...
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Publicação on-line do Núcleo de Estudos em Saúde Coletiva da Universidade Estadual de Londrina cuja linha editorial é a municipalização da saúde. Cada volume traz resumos de artigos, relatos d...
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It presents aspects of how citizens and experts deal with technological issues: expertise and interconnectedness, expertise and citizenship, the personal challenge, and the challenge to democracy.
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It presents a critique of exceedingly risky scientific and technological developments, with suggestions about how co-intelligent political approaches could monitor them to avoid catastrophe. Also it p...
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It presents a list of processes through which stakeholders and citizens can be engaged in co-intelligent exploration and decision-making on public issues (still in progress): that can increase the cap...
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