Quality of the cold chain - WHO / UNICEF policy statement on the use of vaccine vial monitors (VVM) in immunization services
It outlines the potential benefits and advantages of the use of VVMs. Document in pdf format; Acrobat Reader required.
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Vaccines, Drug Packaging
Department of Vaccines and Biologicals (V & B) Catalogue 2003
It lists documents produced and distributed by WHO Department of Vaccines and Biologicals (V&B) since its establishment in 1998, and includes documents, training modules and communications materials ...
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Vaccines, Immunization Programs, Communicable Disease Control, Quality Control, Refrigeration, Catálogos [tipo de publicação], Vacinas e imunização
Evolution and Inequality
Some scientists remain wary of evolutionary theory because of its supposed genetic determinism and insensitivity to the inequalities often associated with gender, race and class. The document aim is t...
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Gender Identity, Health Status Disparities, Public Health, Health Equity, Racial, Advocacy
Advocacy - a practical guide with polio eradication as a case study
This guide outlines advocacy activities to build human, financial and political support for the Polio Eradication Initiative as a platform for strengthening preventive health services. Document in pdf...
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Poliomyelitis/prevention & control, Health Promotion, Reference Books, Guia [tipo de publicação]
Assessing the global needs for vaccine research and development - results of a joint GAVI / WHO meeting
It defines the types of vaccine tha should be targeted by GAVI and prioritized for development, and identifies the gaps that exist globally which are preventing these vaccines from being developed or ...
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Vaccines, Research, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical, Anais de congresso
Certification of the global eradication of Poliomyelitis - report of the fifth meeting of the Global Commission for the Certification of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis
It presents information on the activities of regional certification commissions, supplemental regional data needed prior to global certification, effect of wild poliovirus importations on regional cer...
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Poliomyelitis/prevention & control, Poliovirus, 28441, vacinas e imunização, Anais de congresso
Socioeconomic Differentials in Health - Socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause and specific-cause mortality in Australia: 1985-1987 and 1995-1997
Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality have been repeatedly observed in Britain, the United States, and Europe, and in some countries there is evidence that the differentials are widening. This study...
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Evidence-Based Medicine, Socioeconomic Factors, Mortality, 50334, Equity, Living Conditions
Consensus meeting on assessment and monitoring vaccine - preventable diseases
It presents information on the monitoring of immunization safety, assessment and monitoringrelated to new vaccine introduction, and ensuring effective surveillance and monitoring for accelerated disea...
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Vaccines, Immunization, Primary Prevention, Anais de congresso
Urban cause-specific socioeconomic mortality differences. Which causes of death contribute most?
Cause-specific information on socioeconomic differences in health is necessary for a rational public health policy. At the local level, the Municipal Health Service studies these differences in order ...
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Cause of Death, Mortality, Socioeconomic Factors, Health Equity, Differential Mortality, Equity, Living Conditions
Socioeconomic status and ischaemic heart disease mortality in middle-aged men: importance of the duration of follow-up. The Copenhagen Male Study
The predictive value of some risk factors may diminish with increasing duration of follow-up. This study was performed to elucidate the role of socioeconomic status as a risk factor for ischaemic hear...
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Myocardial Ischemia, Epidemiology, Risk, Socioeconomic Factors, Health Equity, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
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