Criteria for evaluating evidence on public health interventions
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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Evidence-Based Medicine, Public Health/methods, Evaluation of public health interventions (process and outcome), Advocacy, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
The international human right to health: what does this mean for our nation and world?
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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Human Rights, 17627, Legislation, Advocacy
The rising inequality of world income distribution
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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Inequality, Globalization, Inconme distribution, Advocay, Trade, Governance
Editorial: Income inequality and population health
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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Life Expectancy, Income, Inequality, Socioeconomic Determinants of Health, Advocacy
Revista Espaço para Saúde
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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Public Health, Health Policy, Health Care Reform, 16763, Health Policy, Planning and Management, Local Health Systems, Políticas públicas e saúde, úde saúde saúde saúde
Experts and Citizens
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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Expert Testimony, Community Participation, Technology, Consensus development conference [publication type], CCC
Jumping from the Hot Pot: notes on democracy in a technological age
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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Democracy, Technology, Population council, CCCiudadano, Consensus development conference [publication type], CCC
A toolbox of processes for community work
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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Group Processes, Community Participation, Community Networks, CCCiudadano, Consensus development conference [publication type], CCC
Population aging and Its macroeconomic implications: A framework for analysis
"This paper develops a model to examine the macroeconomic implications of population aging. Using a general equilibrium framework, the analysis examines the various channels through which changes in d...
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Population Characteristics, Social Security, Demographic, Macroeconomic, Advocacy, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Social protection policy and practice in Bolivia: Its implications for Bolivias poverty reduction strategy paper
The objective of this paper is to document the nature and scope of social protection policy and practice in Bolivia, utilizing the World Banks social protection framework. The paper is divided into ...
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Poverty, Social Security, Advocacy, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions, Poverty reduction
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