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Health Economics/Health Inequality

The edition of Health Economics, Volume 9, Issue 7, 2000 has a special section on Health Inequalities, contains the following papers:- Towards multidisciplinary research into health inequalities /Oliv...
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Resource added in: 21/12/2000
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Health Status Disparities, 16672, Health Equity, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util

Gasto y financiamiento en salud: situación y tendencias

"...Being knowledgeable about national health expenditures and sources of financing is essential for decision-making. This awareness also makes it possible to evaluate the equity of allocation and the...
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Health Expenditures, Financing, Health, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util

Information systems: the key to evidence-based health practice

How to approach the utilization of clinical and management health information is still a complex, chaotic, and controversial issue. It is not surprising that many expectations regarding the contributi...
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Evidence-Based Medicine, 28568, Data Collection, Measuring, Methods and Indicators

Visible hands: Taking responsibility for social development

UNRISD commissioned over 50 researchers from 35 countries to look into the social effects of institutional and policy reforms of the 1990s. Their work forms the basis for this UNRISD report.This repor...
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16081, 23927, Advocacy

International comparators and poverty and health in Europe

We are conducting a programme of research that addresses two types of question: the reasons for health inequalities between the countries of eastern and western Europe and the reasons for inequalities...
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Poverty, Health Status Disparities, Equity, Living Conditions, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util

Dying for growth: Global inequality and the health of the poor

"...Dying for Growth's sixteen chapters are grounded in the lives of people struggling against a very modem poverty. The volume opens with case studies illustrating the human impact of harsh, externa...
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Health Status Disparities, Poverty, Health Equity, Equity, Living Conditions

Negociación del desarrollo sanitario

Este libro se ha organizado alrededor de dos conjuntos de ideas. El primer conjunto de ideas desglosa un proceso característico de desarrollo sanitario en cuatro componentes. Encontramos que es útil...
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Health Status, Negotiating, Equidad en condiciones de vida, Abogacía

Towards a new concept of health: Three discussion papers

The three papers in this volume reflect an intellectual itinerary, the record of a search for a fresh understanding of health. Aristotle is the first stop along the way, but the authors go on to exami...
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Social Environment, Mortality, Public Policy, 16081, Morbidity, Health Equity, Health Care System, Equity, Living Conditions

World resources 2000-2001/people and ecosystems: The fraying Web of life

World Resources 2000-2001, the definitive guides to the global environment. The latest edition, focusing on People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life was presented to the world's environment mini...
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Resource added in: 21/12/2000
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Environment, Ecosystem, Health Equity

The State of World Population 2000: Lives together, worlds apart men and women in a time of change

Inequality between women and men limits the potential of individuals, families, communities and nations. Ending gender discrimination is an urgent human rights and development priority, says The State...
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Gender Identity, Human Rights, Inequality, Discrimination, Measuring, Methods and Indicators