Total of resources: 27386

Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2000

The study has involved drawing together data from a wide range of sources, including government-funded surveys, some administrative data and some local and health authority returns. The work has only ...
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Resource added in: 20/03/2001
Available languages: English
Data Collection, 28568, Population Survey, Equity, Living Conditions, Measuring, Methods and Indicators

The quality of growth: Key to less poverty and better lives for all

Development generally calls for economic growth, but it also involves the human, social, environmental, and governance dimensions. Quantitative and qualitative aspects must be part of the same agenda ...
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Resource added in: 20/03/2001
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23927, Health Equity, Economic Growth, Governance, Advocacy

Biblioteca Virtual en Salud - Adolescencia y Salud / BVS Adolec Costa Rica

Presenta información acerca de questiones relacionadas a los adolescentes y su salud, y brinda acceso a periódicos científicos, revistas, bases de datos bibliográficas, textos completos, directori...
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Resource added in: 20/03/2001
Available languages: Spanish
Adolescent, Psychology, Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Health Promotion, Biblioteca virtual em saúde

The International development goals: Strengthening commitments and measuring progress

Background note prepared by the World Bank Group for the Westminster Conference on Child Poverty. Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, encompassing inability to satisfy basic needs, lack of contr...
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Resource added in: 20/03/2001
Available languages: English
Poverty, 52503, Poor Health, Development, Measuring, Methods and Indicators

Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética - CIEB

Presenta información sobre temas relacionados a la bioética, tales cuales biotecnología, clonación, genética, genoma humano, eventos, cursos, e investigación, y brinda acceso a textos, revistas,...
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Resource added in: 20/03/2001
Available languages: Spanish
Bioethics

Scripps Gerontology Center: Miami University

Apresenta a equipe responsável pela instituição, endereços para contato, calendário de atividades, programas acadêmicos oferecidos, pesquisas em andamento e links para páginas afins.
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Resource added in: 20/03/2001
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Geriatrics, Academies and Institutes, Alzheimer Disease, Caregivers, Aged, Long-Term Care, Medicaid, Medicare, Mental Health, 32415, Academies and Institutes, Aged, Social Security, Envelhecimento (humano), Direito dos idosos

Biblioteca Virtual en Bioética - BVB.

Presenta información acerca del Programa Regional de Bioética y de la BVB, y sobre cursos, y brinda acceso a bibliografía en bioética, bases de dados bibliográficas, revistas de bioética y médi...
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Resource added in: 20/03/2001
Available languages: Spanish
Bioethics, Pan American Health Organization, Biblioteca virtual em saúde

Measuring healthy days: Population assessment of health-related quality of life

This technical report, Measuring Healthy Days, describes the origins, validity, and use of a set of survey measures developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its partners f...
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Resource added in: 20/03/2001
Available languages: English
Public Health, Social Conditions, Health Status Disparities, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions

Getting less for more: economic evaluation in the social welfare field

Economic evaluation has an important role in helping to make decisions about the use of scarce resources in an explicit and rational manner, yet economic evaluation is not well-developed in many areas...
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Resource added in: 20/03/2001
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Economics, Social Welfare, Advocacy, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util

The National health inequalities targets

The United Kingdom Government gave a commitment that, for the first time ever, local targets for reducing health inequalities would be reinforced by the creation of national health inequalities target...
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Resource added in: 20/03/2001
Available languages: English
Mortality, Delivery of Health Care, Health Status Disparities, Health Equity