Unequal exposure to ecological hazards: Environmental injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The report analyzes both income-based and racially based biases to the geographic distribution of some 17 different types of environmentally hazardous sites and industrial facilities in the Commonweal...
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12/01/2001
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Income, Environment, Social Conditions, Toxicology, Equity, Living Conditions
Cotton Club
Apresenta informações direcionadas ao deficiente físico na Espanha.
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11/01/2001
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Architectural Accessibility/legislation & jurisprudence, Aging, Pessoas portadoras de deficiencia
The Global Alliance for Health Information
This article describes the Global Alliance for Health Information (GAHI). The vision of GAHI is to improve global health by making health information available to all health care providers in low and ...
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11/01/2001
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Information Systems, Health Personnel, Advocacy
CRICS V Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information
The series CRICS (Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information) started at 1992 at the same occasion of the III Biannual Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean System on Health Sciences Infor...
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11/01/2001
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Congress, Information Services, Medical Information, Advocacy
The State of Food and Agriculture 2000/World Food and Agriculture: lessons for the last 50 years
SOFA 2000's retrospective illustrates how technological progress has increased food production and reduced the number of hungry around the world. Thirty years ago, 960 million people didn't have enou...
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Food, Agriculture, Health Equity, Advocacy
Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program - Ford IFP
The Ford Foundation has create an International Fellowships Program (IFP) which will award 350 new graduate fellowships annually, assisting fellows over the next decade, representing the largest singl...
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10/01/2001
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Fellowships and Scholarships, Training Support, Advocacy, Apoio a pesquisa - internacional
Poverty is powerlessness and voicelessness
The world looks different when viewed through the eyes of a poor person. In preparation for the World Development Report 2000/ 2001: Attacking Poverty, the World Bank conducted a research study that b...
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09/01/2001
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Poverty, Research, Advocacy
How the poor can have a voice in government policy
Development thinking has changed significantly in recent years. Policymakers have recognized the ability of the poor to make a valuable contribution to the analysis of poverty and are consulting them ...
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09/01/2001
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Decision Making, Policy Making, Poverty, Advocacy
Older people in disasters and humanitarian crises: guidelines for best practice
".... Aimed at helping relief agencies meet the special needs of older people in emergencies. Guidelines give examples of key approaches and actions that could help the humanitarian community reduce t...
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08/01/2001
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Aged, Health Effects of Disasters, Health Equity, Disasters Emergencies
Broadening the agenda for poverty reduction: Opportunity, empowerment, security
Experience from the 1990s has led to poverty reduction agenda that, in addition to promoting economic growth, addresses ingrained inequalities, institutional failures, social barriers, and other risks...
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