Total of resources: 27360

Hospitals in a changing Europe. Policy brief

This paper presents hospital policies in the context of a key component of the health care system in the process of reform.
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Resource added in: 18/07/2002
Available languages: English
Health Services, Hospitals, Policy, Health system reform, Advocacy, Equity, Health Services

Visual impairments: Determining eligibility for social security benefits

Methods of determining disability for people with visual impairments to recommend changes that could be made now to improve the process and outcomes and to identify research needed to develop improved...
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Resource added in: 18/07/2002
Available languages: English
Persons with Visual Disabilities, Insurance, Health, Social Security, Advocay

What can be done about the private health sector in low-income countries?

This study presents what to do with private health sector in low-income countries and how the activities of the private sector in these countries can be influenced so that they help to meet national h...
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Resource added in: 18/07/2002
Available languages: English
Health Services, Private Sector, Marketing of Health Services, Quality of Health Care, Legislation, Consumer Advocacy, Developing Countries, /Supply & distribution, Advocacy, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util

World development indicators 2002

The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. WDI 2002 includes approx. 800 indicators in 87 tables, organized in six sections: World...
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Resource added in: 18/07/2002
Available languages: English
Development Indicators, Economic Development, Social Indicators, Measuring, Methods and Indicators

Violência e desigualdade social: mortalidade por homicídios e condições de vida em Salvador, Brasil

Relação entre pobreza e violência. Estudo realizado com o objetivo de analisar os diferenciais intra-urbanos de mortalidade por homicídio segundo as condições de vida."
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Resource added in: 18/07/2002
Available languages: Portuguese
Homicide, Social Conditions, Mortality, Violence, 50334, Health Status Disparities, Social Problems, Health Equity, delidadelidadelidadelidade, Defesa, Medição, métodos e indicadores, Eqüidade em condições de vida

Hoja resumen sobre desigualdades en salud en El Salvador

La hoja resumen presenta una breve descripción de cada variable estudiada, las graficas y datos utilizados y un comentario sintético sobre los mismos. Al final en la nota técnica y comentarios, se ...
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Resource added in: 18/07/2002
Available languages: Spanish
Health Status Disparities, Health Status, Health Services Accessibility, Delivery of Health Care, Encuesta de hogares, Abogacía, Medición, Métodos e indicadores, Equidad en condiciones de vida, Equidad en acceso de los servicios de salud^util

Hoja resumen sobre desigualdades en salud en Paraguay

La hoja resumen presenta una breve descripción de cada variable estudiada, las graficas y datos utilizados y un comentario sintético sobre los mismos. Al final en la nota técnica y comentarios, se ...
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Resource added in: 18/07/2002
Available languages: Spanish
Health Status Disparities, Health Services Accessibility, Delivery of Health Care, Health Status, Demography, Diarrhea, Infantile, Encuesta de hogares, Abogacía, Medición, Métodos e indicadores, Equidad en condiciones de vida, Equidad en acceso de los servicios de salud^util

Producing an improved geographic-methodology and evidence from three developing countries

This paper implements a methodology for estimating poverty in Ecuador, Madagascar and South Africa, at levels of disaggregation that to date have not generally been available. The methodology is based...
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Resource added in: 17/07/2002
Available languages: English
Poverty, Measurement, Profiles, Forecasting models, Statistical, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions

Food stamps and welfare reform

The Food Stamp Program (FSP) is the nation’s nearly universal anti-poverty initiative, providing support to a broad range of low-income households. This brief summarizes FSP operations, program issue...
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Resource added in: 17/07/2002
Available languages: English
Poverty, Food, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions

Research training fellowships in health:Call for applications

The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) invite researchers from Latin America and the Caribbean, to apply for a one-year p...
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Resource added in: 16/07/2002
Available languages: English
Public Health, Epidemiology, Biomedical, Clinical, Research support, hipsrshipsrshipsrshipsrships, Advocacy, Apoio a pesquisa - internacional