Guide for a quality systems manual in a control laboratory
This guide seeks to establish a practical basis for the Quality Systems Manual of a control laboratory which each country can then adopt in order to prepare its own more detailed manual according to t...
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Vaccines, Quality Control, Guidelines as Topic, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical, Reference Books, Guia [tipo de publicação]
Ensuring the quality of locally produced vaccines and the viability of local production
It presents control functions and strategies which may assure the quality of vaccines supplied through local production. A version in Russian is available. Document in pdf format; Acrobat Reader requi...
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Vaccines, Quality Control, vacinas e imunização
Poverty and Health
There are, in short, many ways that governments can potentially influence both health gaps between the poor and better off, and the degree to which poor households are affected disproportionately by t...
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Health Systems, Delivery of Health Care, Poverty, Equity, Living Conditions
Relative deprivation, inequality, and mortality
The author postulate that individual health is negatively affected by relative deprivation within a reference group, defined as the ratio to group mean income of the total "weight" of incomes of group...
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Mortality, 50334, Equity, Living Conditions
Informal consultation on the control of Pertussis with whole cell and acellular vaccines
It presents information on Pertussis epidemiology and surveillance, acellular pertussis vaccines, regulatory issues, factors influencing choice of pertussis vaccine, and recommendations. Document in p...
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Pertussis Vaccine, Whooping Cough/prevention & control, Whooping Cough/epidemiology, Whooping Cough, Whooping Cough, Whooping Cough
2001 World Health Assembly (WHA)
It aproacches: the global strategy for infant and young child feeding; strengthening health systems; strategies to combat HIV/AIDS, including access to essential drugs; health effects of depleted uran...
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United Nations, Advocacy
Winners and losers
Growing inequality is analogous to global warming. Its effects are diffuse and long-term, and there is always something more pressing to deal with. The question is how much more unequal world income d...
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Poverty, Income, Advocacy
Of rich and poor
In polite policymaking circles, inequality is like the subject that dares not speak its name. In recent years, egalitarianism has lost much of whatever political appeal it ever had, in the rich indust...
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Poverty, 50334, Policymaking, Equity, Living Conditions
Options for a global fund for new vaccines
It discusses five parameters of such a fund: equity, impact, feasibility, sustainability and scope. For each, goals such as access, effectiveness, and independence are discussed, including an analysis...
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Vaccines/economics, Fund Raising
Grupo de trabajo: Biblioteca Virtual en Salud, Equidad y Desarrollo Humano
La Biblioteca Virtual en Salud en general es la expresión de un nuevo paradigma de disponibilidad, organización y acceso a la información. Donde el espacio es virtual, con acceso desde cualquier lu...
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