Information technology, health and health care: A View to the future
This paper is designed to help readers imagine the consequences of the technological revolution for the world in which we live. It focusesespecially on the way these technologies are likely to transfo...
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Technology, Economics, Careh Careh Careh Care, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Relative income, race, and mortality
The central question addressed in this paper is whether mortality is affected by relative income, where relative income is defined as an individual's own income relative to the incomes of those who li...
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Evidence-Based Medicine, Income, Mortality, Health Equity, Racial Stocks, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
The Comparative efficiency of national health systems in producing health: An analysis of 191 countries
Perhaps the most important conclusion of this work is that it is possible to measure and compare the efficiency of health systems across countries and over time. This is particularly important for cou...
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Cost Efficiency Analysis, Product Line Management, Helth System Reforms, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
A Database of ongoing health services research projects
Contains more than 6,100 descriptions of ongoing health services research projects funded by government agencies, foundations, and private organizations. Researchers, policy makers, managers, and libr...
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Health Services, Workforce, Measuring, Methods and Indicator, Documentos de referencia y metodología
Human Development Report 2000
"... The report looks at human rights as an essential part of development-and at development as a means to realizing human rights. The report illustrates how human rights bring principles of accountab...
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Human Development, Poverty, cyvocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
The State of the World's Children - 2000
The State of the World's Children 2000 seeks to fan the flame that burned so brilliantly a decade ago when world leaders adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989 and then confirmed th...
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Children's Rights, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
Instituto Paulista de Sexualidade e Cl�nica de Psicologia e Sexualidade
O Instituto Paulista de Sexualidade - InPaSex -, cl�nica de psicologia e sexualidade, � composto de profissionais de s�lida forma��o acad�mica e larga experi�ncia no...
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Sexuality, Sex Counseling, Adolesc�ncia, Transtornos Sexuais, DEPRESS�O
La Salud en el desarrollo
Discurso inaugural pronunciado por el Profesor Amartya Sen, rector del Trinity College, Cambridge, ante la 52 Asamblea Mundial de la Salud. Mostra la importancia de reconocer el papel decisivo de la r...
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Health Equity, Reforma en Atención de la Salud
Mortalidad Infantil un indicador para la gestión local
Este trabajo constituye otro documento de la serie de informes publicados por la Representación OPS/OMS en Argentina, con relación a la evolución de los indicadores de condiciones de vida y de salu...
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Social Conditions, Infant Mortality, Epidemiology, Medición, Métodos e indicadores, Equidad en condiciones de vida
Cross sectional study of primary care groups in London: association of measures of socioeconomic and health status with hospital admission rates
"... Objectives: To calculate socioeconomic and health status measures for the primary care groups in London and to examine the association between these measures and hospital admission rates.Conclusi...
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Health Status, Patient Admission, nsitionsitionsitionsitions, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
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