Improving health care for the poor
This article is about the $27.1 million credit the World bank approves for health system reform in Honduras to support government policies aimed at extending health care to the poor in Honduras and en...
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Poverty, Financing, Health, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^, util, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
Waterthe essence of life, but still elusive to many
This article is about the importance of water for human needs and how Improving water supply and sanitation service delivery is crucial in the quest to reduce poverty and diseases.
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Water Quality, 16407, Water Purification, Human Rights, Human Development, Sanitation, Equity, Living Conditions
Social exclusion in urban Uruguay
This article presents the increase of poor exclusion from the rest of society in Uruguay.It explains how in many developing countries the characteristics of the urban poor go beyond the traditional ...
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Poverty, Policy Making, Social exclusion, Equity, Living Conditions, Advocacy
Amamentação e medicação materna: recomendações sobre drogas da 8ª lista de medicamentos da OMS
Apresenta a lista básica de medicamentos, sua classificação e instruções de como usá-la durante o período de amamentação. A lista, elaborada pela Organização Mundial da Saúde, inclui anest...
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Public Health, Breast Feeding, Pharmaceutical Preparations, MEDICAMENTOS, VACINAS E INSUMOS
Consumer demand for caesarean sections in Brazil: informed decision making, patient choice, or social inequality? A population based birth cohort study linking ethnographic and epidemiological methods
The objetive of this paper is to investigate why some women prefer cesarean sections and how decisions to medicalise birthing are influenced by patients, doctors, and the sociomedical environment. BMJ...
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Cesarean Section, Delivery of Health Care, Pregnacy, Health Care Quality, Equity, Health services Accessibility^util, Equity, Living Conditions
The limits of psychiatry. Education and debate
The author presents in this arthicle that psychiatry should temper and complement a biological view with psychological and social understanding, thus recognising the uncertainties of clinical practice...
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Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Advocacy
The legacies of collective violence. The Rwandan genocide and the limits of law
This paper presents race and imprisonment in Rwanda and Yugoslavia inthe twenty-first-century...."Much evidence from the former Yugoslavia and Rwandatwo areas devastated by ethnic cleansing and geno...
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Violence, Human Rights, Legislation & jurisprudence, Advocacy
Amamentação e medicação materna: recomendações sobre drogas da 8ª lista de medicamentos da OMS
Apresenta a lista básica de medicamentos, sua classificação e instruções de como usá-la durante o período de amamentação. A lista, elaborada pela Organização Mundial da Saúde, inclui anest...
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Public Health, Breast Feeding, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Medicamentos, vacinas e insumos
Registro Civil
Página do IBGE que disponibiliza dados extraídos dos inquéritos sobre as estatísticas vitais e casamentos ocorridos no Brasil. Apresenta a metodologia utilizada, o histórico, as principais variá...
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Public Health, Demography, Vital Statistics, 29161, Civil Registration, Marital Status, IBGE, Registros de estatísticas vitais
Onde se tratar de câncer pelo SUS
Página do Instituto Nacional de Câncer (INCA) que apresenta os serviços vinculados ao Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) que realizam tratamento oncológico no Brasil e cadastrados pelo Ministério da ...
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Public Health, 50230, Oncology Service, Hospital, Cancer Care Facilities, Neoplasms, Delivery of Health Care, SUS (BR)
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