Chile health insurance issues: Old age and catastrophic health costs
This paper analyzes Chilean data in search of answers to questions about the effects on health care costs of population aging and of catastrophic events. Its main purpose is to ground current discussi...
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Inglês
Seguro Saúde, Equidade em Saúde, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
A League table of child injury deaths in rich nations
This publication is the first in a series of Innocent Report Cards, designed to monitor the performance of the industrialized nations in meeting the needs of their children. Each Report Card will pres...
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Saúde da Criança, Equidade em Saúde
Chile's rapid growth in the 1990's-good policies, good luck, or political change?
This paper assesses empirically the main hypotheses suggested in the literature about the factors underlying this rapid growth: good economic policies, good luck in the external sector, and the countr...
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26/12/2000
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Desenvolvimento Econômico, Equidade em Saúde
Protecting human health in a changing world: the role of social and economic development
The aim in this paper is to distinguish between socioeconomic aspects of development that are likely to be protective and those that are likely to increase vulnerability (the capacity for loss resulti...
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21/12/2000
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Inglês
Meio Ambiente e Saúde Pública, Physical Environment, Advocacy
Web education Internet information skills for medics
A set of free "teach yourself" tutorials delivered over the Web for students, lecturers and researchers who want to learn what the Internet can offer in their subject. All the materials you need are t...
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21/12/2000
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Inglês
Tutorials, Advocacy
What do we mean by geographic aspects?
"Poverty maps" allow the visualization of the incidence and magnitude of poverty across space. This web site of the World Bank covers topics of geographic aspects of inequality and poverty as componen...
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Pobreza, 16124, 29161, Formulação de Políticas, Inequality, onditionditionditiondition
World Development Report (WDR) 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty
Poor people live without fundamental freedoms of action and choice that the better off take for granted. They often lack adequate food and shelter, education and health, deprivations that keep them fr...
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Pobreza, Economia, Desastres Naturais, Análise de Vulnerabilidade, Equidade em Saúde
Ethnography and health care
Ethnography is a complex and contested activity drawing on a range of epistemological positions and methods and often demanding different modes of evaluation from other methods more commonly used in h...
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21/12/2000
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Antropologia Cultural, Conhecimento, Pesquisa, Atenção à Saúde, Equity, Living Condition
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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Disparidades nos Níveis de Saúde, 16672, Equidade em Saúde, 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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21/12/2000
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Espanhol
Gastos em Saúde, Financing, Health, Equity, Health Services Accessibility^util
