Health impact assessment
HIA's strength lies in providing a tool which enables informed policy decisions to be made based on a valid assessment of their potential health impacts, at the same time adding health awareness to po...
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Social Control Policies, 32465, Policy Making, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Path independent inequality measures
This paper explores a natural decomposition requirement for inequality measures, motivated by Shorrocks and Anand, which we call path independent decomposability. Given a collection of population subg...
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Equity, 35144, Income, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
HIV and AIDS in Americas: an epidemic with many faces
As the HIV epidemic enters its third decade, the challenges it poses to families, to societies, to governments and to science continue to grow. The more we learn about HIV and the behaviors that spre...
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Disease Outbreaks, Health Equity, Acquired Immunodeficiency
Benchmarks of fairness for health care reform: A policy tool for developing countries
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We report here on progress we have made toward developing the benchmarks of fairness into a policy tool that will be useful in developing countries for analyzing the overall fairness of health care...
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Health Care Reform, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
How equitable is public spending on health and education?
This paper contributes to Chapter 2 of WDR 2000/1-specifically the part of the chapter which will argue that successful poverty reduction is related to public investment in basic health and education....
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Public Policy, Financing, Government, Education, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
State income inequality, household income, and maternal mental and physical health: cross sectional national survey
"... The joint effect of income inequality and household income on health has received limited attention. On p 1311 Kahn et al focus on symptoms of depression and self reported health among a large sa...
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Maternal Welfare, Income, Income Poverty, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions
Social capital and community governance
".... Propose an alternative framework, which we term "community governance." We begin with some examples, and present a simple model and some experimental evidence demonstrating the plausibility of ...
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Politics, Advocacy
The Colonial origins of comparative development: An empirical investigation
".... We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very differen...
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Mortality, Advocacy
Promoting health: intervention strategies from social and behavioral research (2000)
Paper prepared for a conference on "Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral Research to Improve the Public's Health" sponsored by The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences an...
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Health Status Disparities, Racial Discrimination, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
Why reduce health inequalities?
Inequalities in health are undesirable to the extent that they are unfair, or unjust. Distinguishing between health inequalities and health inequities can be contentious. Our view is that inequalities...
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Health Status Disparities, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
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