Costa Rica: A pension reform strategy
This publication describes the present pension system, its shortcomings, and defends the need for urgent reform. It also makes recommendations on how to reform the system, what should be changed firs...
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Previdência Social, Pension System, Reform, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Explaining trends in inequities: evidence from Brazilian child health studies
The hypothesis suggests that good quality public-health programmes for improving child health are more available and being utilised by those families who need them least. The hypothesis also predicts ...
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Saúde da Criança, Saúde Pública, Equidade, Quality Health Care, onditionditionditiondition, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Pan American Journal of Public Health
The special issue provides an up-to-date analysis of how countries in the Region of the Americas are changing their health care systems in order to promote more effective health services and more equi...
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Atenção à Saúde, Saúde Pública, Reforma dos Serviços de Saúde, Revistas Eletrônicas, Analysis, Advocacy
Social capital and poverty
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There is growing empirical evidence that social capital contributes significantly to sustainable development. Sustainability is to leave future generations as many, or more, opportunities as we ou...
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Pobreza, Condições Sociais, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions
Corruption and the provision of health care and education services
The theoretical literature identifies three channels through which this can happen. (Au)The results have four important policy implications in light of the dominant role played by governments in the p...
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Serviços de Saúde, Economy, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util, Advocacy
Health promoting bridging the equity gap
A World Health Organization (WHO) publication of approximately 15 case studies from developing countries illustrating practical initiatives and interventions that have been shown to improve the lives ...
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50345, Equidade, Measuring, Methods and Indicators
Socioeconomic Inequalitites in Child Mortality: Comparisons across Nine Developing Countries
Abstract\".. An estimate of poor-rich differences in infant and under-five mortality for nine developing countries, based on household survey data. The differences were large enough to be statisticall...
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Países em Desenvolvimento, Serviços de Saúde, Mortalidade Infantil, Fatores Socioeconômicos, Sevices Accessibility, Equity, Living Conditions, Social Justic, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Role of private sector in United Kingdom healthcare system
Over 12 million people in the United Kingdom are covered for private health care. The private sector already provides many services for the National Health System (NHS), such a psychiatric care and l...
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Setor Privado, Sistemas de Saúde, Cobertura do Seguro, Disabilities, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
Embarazo en la Adolescencia
Informaciones cerca del embarazo en la adolescencia,causas, incidencia y fatores de riesgo, prevención, síntomas de embarazo, pruebas y test, tratamiento, pronóstico, complicaciones.
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Gravidez na Adolescência, Adolescente
Reinvigorating public health
Health inequalities are increasingly on the public-health agenda, and halving the number of people living in absolute poverty by the year 2015--the main international development goal--would do more t...
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50334, Saúde Pública, Pobreza, População, Advocacy
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