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GenSalud Virtual Library
GenSalud is a referential database with close to 25 000 entries. The main goal of the bibliogrpahic database is to provide access to information on the subject of gender and its methodological presence in the study of health , as well as other related issues.
library.htm
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Negotiating Health Services in Trade and Integration Agreements in the Americas
The purpose of this study is to advance understanding of how trade and integration agreements can affect the health care system, and support capacity-building in the health sector to participate in negotiating trade and integration agreements. It explains the rules concerning trade in services of major trade agreements at the global and regional level, explores how they could affect health care and policy, and provides a framework and options for managing trade in health services.
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Results of Competition: Research Training Grants in Public Health 2002
The Research Coordination Program of the Pan American Health Organization announces the results of the competition for Research Training Grants in Public Health 2002.
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Gender Equity in Health Advocacy Pack
As part of its Advocacy Pack series, the Women, Health and Development Program announces its new Gender Equity in Health Advocacy Pack! The kit consists of a fact sheet, an issue paper and a PowerPoint presentation, which present the ethical and empirical underpinnings of the effort to incorporate the gender perspective in health policies and programs.
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Results of Competition: Graduate Thesis Grants in Public Health, Second Round 2002
The Research Coordination Program of the Pan American Health Organization announces the results of the competition for Graduate Thesis Grants in Public Health, Second Round 2002.
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Gender and HIV/AIDS Advocacy Pack
In time for World AIDS Day on December 1st, The Women, Health and Development Program announces its new Gender and HIV/AIDS Advocacy kit. The kit consists of two fact sheets, an issue paper and a PowerPoint presentation, which look at the gendered aspects of the HIV pandemic in the Americas.
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The process of Health Policy Reform in the English-Speaking Caribbean: Case studies in National Health Insurance
Abstract: It documents and analyses the process of Health Policy Reform in the English-speaking Caribbean. It focuses on the development of policies for National Health Insurance in three countries in the Region: Trinidad and Tobago, St Lucia and St Vincent & the Grenadines. The study is unique, as it provides the first documentation of the policy process for National Health Insurance Programmes in the English-speaking Caribbean, thereby adding to the literature on Health Policy Process. The research was conducted (1996-2002 part-time) in accordance with the degree requirements for Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the University of Leeds, Nuffield Institute for Health, UK.
Trinidad-Tob-Res.doc
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Health and Hemispheric Security
This paper points out the
importance of human security for national and hemispheric security and itemizes the role
and place of health in the preservation of such security. It emphasizes that the regional
response must include advocacy, improvement of information and surveillance systems,
support for regional institutions, given the transnational nature of some health risks as
well as properly focused research and training.
hdr-up-Nov.pdf
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Gender-Based Violence Newsletter
November 25th is the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which will be commemorated in countries all over the world. HDW has put together a newsletter which details the history of Day, lists some of the events taking place this year, and provides links to other useful sources of information.
VAWDay2002.pdf
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Brain Desorders in the Developing World: Reseach across the lifespan
Calls for aplication. This Request for Applications solicits applications to plan and develop collaborative research and capacity building projects on brain disorders throughout life relevant to low- and middle-income nations.
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Evaluation of the effectiveness and acceptability of self-collected vaginal swabs to detect human papillomavirus, for cervical cancer screening among Mexican women
Abstract: The Research's objective is to assess the effectiveness and acceptability of vaginal swabs self-collected at home, for detecting human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between April 2000 and February 2002, among 1,213 women selected through cluster sampling, in Morelos, Mexico.
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Gender and Public Health Series
The Women, Health and Development Program has made its Gender and Public Health Series of documents available on the web. Topics covered include intra-family violence, sexual abuse and the Belén do Pará Convention. Most of the documents are available in Spanish only.
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Health and Economic Growth Project
The main objective of the Health and Economic Growth Phase II project is to further our knowledge and understanding of the relationships between the health status of the population - quality and longevity of the human capital- and the process of economic growth and social development.
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Presentation - Transforming Health Systems: Gender and Rights in Reproductive Health
(September 13th, 2002 - PAHO) A presentation of the WHO Training Curriculum for Health Program Managers by Jane Cottingham (Technical Officer for Gender and Reproductive Rights, WHO). Download the presentation announcement for more information (Word file):
cottinghampresentation.htm
cottinghampresentation.doc
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Health, Human Capital and Economic Growth - Workshop on Empirical Research
The purpose of the workshop is to discuss the type of empirical research that should be promoted to better document the relationships between changes in nutrition and health status on long-term economic growth and social development.
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Reproductive health and health sector reform in developing countries: establishing a framework for dialogue
This paper examines factors that limit dialogue and proposes a framework for encouraging it, including the identification of policy groups, development of bases for collaborative links; introduction of a common understanding around relevant policy contexts; reaching agreement on compatible aims, developing causal links between policy content in reproductive health and health sector change as a basis for evidence-based policy-making. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2002;80:667-674.
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Trade in Health Services
This publication is the final report of the Inter-Regional Meeting on Health and Trade: Toward the Millennium Round, sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) from 3 to 5 November, 1999 in Washington, D.C. The objective of that meeting was to explore effective cooperation mechanisms between the health and trade sectors, in order to incorporate health priorities in the international trade agendas. The publication includes general conclusions and recommendations from the meeting.
trade.htm
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Gender, Equity and Health Reform in Chile
HDW's Gender, Equity and Health Reform Project in Chile has just released a collection of technical briefs, the result of a series of participatory workshops with various civil society groups in Chile. The briefs cover seven current themes in the gender and health reform debate.
chilereform.htm
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WHO Short-term professional positions in Health Financing and Stewardship (HFS)
WHO - Health Systems Performance and Poverty Reduction Unit as part of its activities to support countries in improving the performance of their health systems, is developing a programme of work on health and poverty reduction.
who-stp.doc
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Health and Human Rights
In a bid to help governments develop a human rights approach to public health work, a new publication by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) makes the case that protecting civil liberties can reduce vulnerability to and the affect of poor health.
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Human Development Report 2002
Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World. Politics matter for human development. Reducing poverty depends as much on whether poor people have political power as on their opportunities for economic progress. Democracy has proven to be the system of governance most capable of
mediating and preventing conflict and of securing and sustaining well-being. By expanding people's choices about how and by whom they are governed, democracy brings principles of participation and accountability to the process of human development.
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Health legislation
This page presents a panoramic view of all PAHO materials related to Health Legislation, Other PAHO Materials, and GeneralInformation/Links. It also contains a listing of featured items with the most important documents from each, announcements of upcoming events, and/or new books
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Ethnicity and Health
This page presents a panoramic view of all PAHO materials related to Ethnicity and Health, Other PAHO Materials, and General Information/Links. It also contains a listing of featured items with the most important documents from each, announcements of upcoming events, and/or new books
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Centre for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
CHANGE has launched its new website. CHANGE works to advance a reproductive health and rights agenda within US international population and health policies and programs. Visit CHANGE’s new Website
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Women
(Bolivia) CIDEM's mission is to empower women in their struggle for equal opportunities, equity and participation in development processes. Visit their new Website
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Profiting from Pain: Where Prescription Drug Dollars Go
New 2001 data show big drug companies spent almost two and ine half time as much on marketing, advertising and administration as they spent in research development.
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Senior Policy Seminar on Health, Human Capital and Economic Growth: Theory, Evidence and Policy
The main objective of this Seminar [October 3-4, 2002] is to promote the incorporation in the current
policy debate on economic growth and social development the role of the "investments in
human capital" as complementary to the domestic rate of savings and investments.
healthgrowth.pdf
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The size of the gap: measuring inequalities in health
Presented at the meeting of the Global Equity Gauges Alliance, Uganda, February, 2002
sizeofthegap.ppt
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Inequities in access to and use of drinking water services in Latin America and the Caribbean
Studies to identify and evaluate inequities in access to drinking water
services as reflected in household per capita expenditure on water, and to
determine what proportion of household expenditures is spent on water in 11
countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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XIV International AIDS Conference (Barcelona 2002)
Visit the Conference Home Page at: http://www.aids2002.com/Home.asp
The United Nations (UNAIDS) "Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic, 2002" was released this week (2002, Geneva). It concludes that the rate of new infections worldwide is increasing, not leveling off as some theorists had thought. To read the full text of the report, visit UNAIDS at: http://www.unaids.org/barcelona/presskit/report.html.
To read the HIV/AIDS Regional Report for Latin America and the Caribbean, visit UNAIDS at: http://www.unaids.org/barcelona/presskit/factsheets.html
For information about Women's events at the Barcelona Conference, visit:
The Women at Barcelona website: http://www.womenatbarcelona.net/english/englishhome.html
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) website: http://www.undp.org/unifem/events/barcelona.html
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Campbell Collaboration Colloquium 2003
The Campbell Collaboration is an emerging international effort that aims to
help people make well-informed decisions by preparing, maintaining and
promoting access to systematic reviews of studies on the effects of social
and behavioral interventions.Third Annual
Campbell Collaboration Colloquium to be held on February
27-28, 2003 at Stockholm, Sweden. The
theme is: "Developing Systematic Reviews Across Countries".
Collaboration website: http://www.campbellcollaboration.org
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Annotated Bibliography on Equity in Health,1980-2001
The purposes of this bibliography are to present an overview of the published literature on equity
in health and to summarize key articles relevant to the mission of the International Society for
Equity in Health (ISEqH).The intent is to show the directions being taken in health equity research
including theories,methods,and interventions to understand the genesis of inequities and their
remediation.Therefore,the bibliography includes articles from the health equity literature that
focus on mechanisms by which inequities in health arise and approaches to reducing them where
and when they exist.- BioMed Central, International Journal for Equity in Health, 2002,1 :1
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Resources on Gender and HIV/AIDS
Gender, HIV and Human Rights: A Training Manual (2000). Visit UNIFEM at: http://www.undp.org/unifem/public/hivtraining/
Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic (2001). Visit UNIFEM at: http://www.undp.org/unifem/public/turningtide/
Gender or Sex: Who Cares? - Skills-building Resource Pack on Gender and Reproductive Health for Adolescents and Youth Workers (2001). Visit IPAS at: http://www.ipas.org/new/AdolescentCurricula.htm
Addressing Gender Perspectives in HIV Prevention (2002). visit UNFPA at: http://www.unfpa.org/aids/prevention/hivprev4a.htm
Search the Siyanda database of resources on gender (enter "HIV" or "AIDS" in the search box). To access Siyanda, visit: http://www.siyanda.org/search.htm
Visit Planetwire at: http://www.planetwire.org/ for the special coverage of Women and HIV/AIDS
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Poverty, Health & Equity: From Global Challenges to Innovative Solutions
9th Canadian Conference on International Health (CCIH) -
October 27-30, 2002, Ottawa, CANADA - To provide a forum for practitioners, researchers,
educators, policy makers and community mobilizers, interested in
health and development issues, to share knowledge, experience and
promote innovation and collaborative action.
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Globalization and Equity
Fourth Annual Global Development Conference, the Government of Egypt will be the official host of Globalization and Equity, to be held in Cairo, January 19-21, 2003.
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HIV/Gender Continuum
From IPPF/WHR (International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region), the HIV/Gender Continuum is a tool to investigate how responsive an organization’s services and programs are to gender issues related to HIV prevention within an overall rights-based approach to sexual and reproductive health.
The HIV/Gender Continuum is available in PDF format in four languages. Download the English version at: http://www.ippfwhr.org/resources/gender_continuum.html
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The Impact of the Caracas Declaration on the Modernization of Mental Health Legislation in Latin America and the English-speaking Caribbean
Document presented at the XXVII International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 9-12, 2002.
BolisPaperMentalHealth-Amsterdam.pdf
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Revista Tertulia (julio 2002)
La revista Tertulia (Julio 2002, Vol.5, No. 24) ha sido publicada en línea. Visite http://www.geocities.com/guatertulia/200224.htm para ver el texto completo. El tema de esa edición es "Una ventana hacia las vidas de las mujeres", y incluye información sobre los derechos de la mujer en Guatemala, la anticoncepción en Costa Rica y la despenalización del aborto en Europa.
Para más información contacte Laura E. Asturias
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First aid: Lessons from health economics for economic evaluation in social welfare
Beyond health care, the economic evaluation of social welfare programmes is rare but the demand for such evaluation is rising. To encourage greater use of economic evaluation, undoubtedly social welfare researchers need to gain a better understanding of the philosophy behind such evaluation and the methodologies necessary to carry these out in practice.
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BIREME
In addition to the objectives that can be attributed to the Center by resolution of the Pan American Health Organization's Governing Bodies, BIREME's objective is to stimulate technical cooperation in health scientific and technical information among Latin American and Caribbean countries
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Program on Bioethics
The PAHO/WHO Regional Program on Bioethics is a technical program of the Division of Health and Human Development which collaborates with public and private institutions in developing and applying concepts and procedures appropriate to the ethical sustainability of decisions regarding scientific research, technical training and cooperation, professional development and health care.
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Research Grants Program
The Research Grants Program is a special fund administered by the Research Coordination of the Pan American Health Organization, through which it facilitates the process of generating knowledge in diverse fields of public health
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Research Coordination
The Research Coordination Program of the Division of Health and Human Development (HDP/HDR) cooperates with the countries of the Region to develop knowledge that contributes to alleviate relevant public health problems of their populations.
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Public Policies and Health
Promote social policies that facilitate the development of good health policies. There is an urgent need to mobilize a variety of actors, including national and regional organizations, parliaments, social organizations, unions, and associations, that influence the formulation of these issues at the national and regional levels.
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Health and Human Development
The Division of Health and Human Development (HDP) promotes, coordinates, and implements technical cooperation activities directed toward increasing equity in health and improving the health sector's contribution to human development.
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Poverty in the Transition: Social Expenditures and the Working-Age Poor
Poverty in the Transition: Social Expenditures and the Working-Age Poor
Series: Innocenti Working Papers, 91
A combination of economic growth and committed revenue-raising should give most governments in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Resources to tackling poverty. Labour market reform a experience in Central and Eastern Europe. The paper concludes by considering the role of improved wages for public service workers and the targeting of categorical benefits.
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Bibliography on Sexuality
The Bibliography of the History of Western Sexuality, 1700-1945, contains about 16 600 titles of primary and secondary literature of the history of sexuality in Europe and North America from 1700 to 1945. This is a referential database only, full-text documents and hyperlinks are not available.
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Online Tool health inequalities and deprivation - Methods review for Monitoring, Measurement Health Inequalities
The tool has been designed to be an easily navigable system for users to access information and support in the area of health inequalities. The toolkit has descriptions and directions for using various data sources and methodologies and includes links to data sources.
The tool was developed following input with stakeholders and potential users participated in consultation and review of the product during its development. It may be viewed at: Website
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Horn of Africa Women's Knowledge Network (HAWKNET)
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) announces a new website devoted to gender issues in the Horn of Africa region. HAWKNET will enable women to discuss emerging national issues, network and participate in global debates and comment on national policies regarding information and communication technologies.
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ACHR-37/2002.06 Advances in knowledge about health determinants at population level
Dr. Cesar G. Victora's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Abstract, Slide presentation, and Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Victora.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.07. Knowledge and Development, the role of the new information a communication technology
Dr. Pierre Levy's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Slide presentation and Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Levy.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.08 The role of PAHO/WHO in health and development
Dr. Juan Antonio Casas's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Slide presentation, and Video Conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Casas.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.09 Priority research strategies for a new Public Health with emphasis in Health Promotion
Dr. Ilona Kickbusch's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Abstract and Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Kickbusch.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.10 Mental health promotion and prevention: Evidence of effectiveness
Dr. Sheppard G. Kellam's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Slide presentation and Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Kellam.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.12 Advances on nutrition research: Challenges and achievements
Dr. Juan Rivera Dommarco's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Slide presentation.
ACHR-2002-Dommarco.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.13 The Role of PAHO in the Promotion of Health
Dr. María Teresa Cerqueira's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Slide presentation.
ACHR-2002-Cerqueira.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.15 Water and sanitation
Profesor Barry Lloyd's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Slide presentation and Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Lloyd.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.21 Knowledge of the needs, demands, utilization, and health care seeking behaviors
Prof. Elsie Le Franc's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Abstract, Slide presentation, and Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-LeFranc.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.25 Progress in genomics research and institutional collaboration mechanisms
Dr. Andrew Simpson's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Slide presentation and Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Simpson.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.26 Progress in research of non-communicable diseases
Dr. Anthony Miller's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Slide presentation and Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Miller.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.23 Important advances in scientific research of infectious diseases: Future perspectives
Dr.Anthony Fauci's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Slide presentation and Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Fauci.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.16 Environmental protection and development: Air quality
Dr. Mauricio Hernandez's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Slide presentation and Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Hernandez.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.24 Major advances in research relating to parasitic diseases
Dr.Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Abstract, Slide presentation and Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Da-Silva.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.14 Introduction: Development, environment, and health
Professor Paulo Buss's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Ful-text, Slide presentation, and Video conference Windows Media
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ACHR-37/2002.17 Research of Environmental Health: The role of PAHO/WHO
Dr. Mauricio Pardon's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Slide presentation and Video conference Windows Media.
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ACHR-37/2002.18 The regional challenge of establishing bridges between research on health systems and services and the formulation of policies and the decision-making
Dr. Daniel Lopez Acuña's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Slide presentation, and Video conference Windows Media.
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ACHR-37/2002.20 Knowledge with regard to performance and evaluation of the health systems
Dr.Juan Arroyo's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Slide presentation, and Video conference Windows Media.
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ACHR-37/2002.22 Historical perspective on the importance of research in disease prevention and control at PAHO
Dr. Gabriel Schmunis's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Slide presentation and Video conference Windows Media.
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ACHR-37/2002.19 Knowledge with regard to health policies and sectoral reforms in the Americas.
Dr. Ana Luisa Viaña's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Presentation and Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Viana.htm
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ACHR-37/2002/Health in Human Development: Commentator:
Dr. Heinz-Rudolf Sonntag's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Video conference Windows Media
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ACHR-37/2002/Remarks by PAHO Director
Dr.George A. O. Alleyne's remarks at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Alleyne-Closing-Session.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.03 List of presentations
XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)
Science, Health and Development: Achievements and Challenges in One Hundred Years of PAHO. Washington, D.C. 12-14 June 2002
ACHR-02-List-of-Presentations.pdf
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ACHR-37/2002.01 Agenda
XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)
Science, Health and Development: Achievements and Challenges in One Hundred Years of PAHO. Washington, D.C. 12-14 June 2002
ACHR-02-Agenda.doc
ACHR-02-Agenda.pdf
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ACHR-37/2002.04 Advancing to our past
Address by the Director of PAHO at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR). Science, Health and Development: Achievements and Challenges in One Hundred Years of PAHO. Washington, D.C. 12-14 June 2002.
ACHR-37-2002-Alleyne-Opening.pdf
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ACHR-37/2002.05 The relationship between health and development
Dr. Paul Farmer's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Abstract, Slide presentation, and Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Farmer.htm
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ACHR-37/2002.02 List of participants
XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)
Science, Health and Development: Achievements and Challenges in One Hundred Years of PAHO. Washington, D.C. 12-14 June 2002
ACHR-02-02.doc
ACHR-02-02.pdf
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Indigenous Communities: Facing the Challenge of HIV/STI
Oftentimes definitions of “Latin American” or “Caribbean” peoples or cultures are oversimplifications based on stereotypes. Likewise, the definitions of ‘indigenous’ peoples or cultures are frequently based on simplistic or wrong assumptions.
Zacarias-indigenous.pdf
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The Virtual Library on Health Equity: A PAHO strategy for information dissemination in support of Health Equity in the Americas
To share the conceptual and methodological issues related to the PAHO Virtual Health Library project in the Americas. Country and regional networks of information sources on health equity will be reviewed.
vhl-iseq-can.htm
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ACHR-37/2002/Health in Human Development: Introduction
Dr.Ichiro Kawachi's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Kawachi.htm
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ACHR-37/2002/Environmental Protection and Development: Chemical safety
Dr.Ellen Silbergeld's presentation at the XXXVII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, Washington, D.C., 12-14 June 2002. Video conference Windows Media.
ACHR-2002-Silbergeld.htm
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Inter-Agency Consultation on Race in Latin America
Inter-Agency Consultation on Race in Latin America (IAC) - 2002 Annual Meeting - Expert Group Meeting- Advancing Public Policy for Afro-Descendants in Latin America - Social and Economic Development, Legal Issues and Human Rights
hdd-etnia-bid.htm
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Gender and Rural Development
The World Bank's Gender Division has relaunched its website devoted to Gender and Rural Development. This site includes a database of recent gender-related rural projects as well as background on the overlap between the two areas.
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Women's World
Women's WORLD, an organization devoted to the global defense and encouragement of women's right to free expression has just launched their new website, which inlcudes sections on African Women's Voices, Voices for Peace in Israel-Palestine, The Aftermath of September 11 and Women Writers
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Gender Discrimination in Health
Género: La cuestión esta en la diferencia - Incidencias de la discriminación y exclusión por género en materia de salud en Colombia has just been released by the Pan-American Health Organization. Written by Carolina Prieto Molano, the article discusses gender discrimination and exclusion in health, apporoaching equity from the perspective of diversity and difference and the inclusion of the gender perspective in health policies and programs.
Download the full text of the article (PDF file - in Spanish)
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Science, Health and Development: Achievements and Challenges in One Hundred Years of PAHO
Presentation of the annual meeting of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR). 12 to 14 June 2002.
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Gender and Environmental Change
The South-East Asia Office (SEARO) of the WHO has released an article and presentation on Women, Men, and Environmental Change:
The Gender Dimensions of Environmental Policies and Programs, which outline women’s and men’s relationships to the environment and the environmental impact of their differential roles.
Dowload the article (PDF file)
View the Presentation (PowerPoint).
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Legislation for Tobacco Control
provides guidance on why the regulation of tobacco products is
important, what type of legislation works and what doesn't, and how to implement and enforce legislation.
PDF file
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Short Term Professional Positions in the Classification, Assessment, Surveys and Terminology (CAS) team at WHO
WHO has launched a survey initiative the objectives of which are to obtain reliable and valid data related to measures of population health, risk factors, coverage, responsiveness of health systems and social capital. It is anticipated that this survey will be carried out in about 75 countries during the course of 2002.
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WHO Strategy for Traditional Medicine
Traditional Medicine: Growing Needs and Potential is the core of the WHO Global Strategy for Traditional Medicine for
2002-2005. It provides brief information on the growing needs and challenges faced by traditional medicine worldwide. It also gives key messages and a checklist for the safety, efficacy and quality to policy-makers.
website
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Statistical yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2001
The Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC/CEPAL) Santiago, Chile - February 2002
Available online at website
Tables with information on different indicators of economic and social development are available for Latin America and the Caribbean for 2001. These include population, economic growth, employment, social conditions, and others.
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NEWW-Polska Announces Its New Website
The Network of East-West Women (NEWW-Polska) in Poland announces the launch of their new website, which contains information
on EU accession and economic justice for women and recent news on gender issues in the CEE/NIS region.
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HIV/AIDS Database
Announcing the launch of a new web-based tool: The HIV/AIDS Survey Indicator Database. The database provides an easily accessible comprehensive source of information on HIV/AIDS indicators derived from sample surveys. The database allows the user to produce tables for multiple countries or for specific countries by select background characteristics. For more information, contact: hivdata@orcmacro.com.
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Health Legislation Trends in the English-speaking American Region: 1997-2001
A review of health legislation in Canada, United States, and the Caribbean during the last four years (1997-2001).
TR79.pdf
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Johannesburg Summit 2002 – the World Summit on Sustainable Development
will bring
together tens of thousands of participants, including heads of State and Government, national
delegates and leaders from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses and other
major groups to focus the world's attention and direct action toward meeting difficult
challenges, including improving people's lives and conserving our natural resources in a world
that is growing in population, with ever-increasing demands for food, water, shelter, sanitation,
energy, health services and economic security.
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Genomics and World Health
WHO Report Calls for Genetic Medicine Benefits for All. Genetic research has the potential to lead to major medical advances within the coming years against such killer diseases as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, potentially saving millions of lives, especially in the developing world, the World Health Organization (WHO) says in a major new Report on the impact of genomic.
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Johannesburg Summit 2002 – the World Summit on Sustainable Development
Johannesburg, South Africa , 26 August - September 4, 2002.The summit will bring together heads of State and Government, national delegates and leaders from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses and other major groups to focus the world's attention and direct action toward meeting difficult
challenges, including improving people's lives and conserving our natural resources in a world that is growing in population, with ever-increasing demands for food, water, shelter, sanitation, energy, health services and economic security.
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Summit to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health July 10-12, 2002 WDC
Leadership Summit seeks to draw attention to the existence of health disparities and to innovative approaches being implemented at the local, State, Federal and Tribal levels which address these disparities.
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Database on Household Surveys - Latin America & the Caribbean
This database contains information on household surveys that were conducted in Latin America and the Caribbean since 1985, and that have one or more modules on health. The database can be consulted by year, by country, or by type of survey.
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Dangerous Liasons
Puntos de Encuentro announces the launch of a new bi-lingual book: Dangerous Liaisons. Women, Men and Hurricane Mitch: A study of power relations between men and women in response to Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua, by Dr. Sarah Bradshaw. For more information or to order a copy, contact Puntos at: puntos@puntos.org.ni, Tel: (++505) 268-1227, Fax: (++505) 266-6305 (15$ US outside Nicaragua).
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Symposium 2001: Gender Based Violence, Health and Rights in the Americas. Final Report
(May 2002) The Final Report from the 2001 Inter-Agency Symposium on Gender-Based Violence, Health and Rights in the Americas has just been published! From June 4th-7th 2001, the Symposium brought together representatives from the ministries of health, women's machinery, civil society and UN agencies from 30 countries as well as international donor agencies to identify priorities and formulate strategies for strengthening the response of the health sector to GBV.
Download the full text of the report by clicking on the link below (PDF File - 1004 KB)
Symposium2001FinalReport.htm
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Ministry of Women, Dominican Republic
The Ministry of Women (SEM) in the Dominican Republic has launched its new website. Available information includes a section on Public Policies, Gender Equity and Reforms and a news bulletin. For more information contact: info@sem.gov.do.
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Race, Racism and the Law
It examines the role of domestic and
international law in promoting and/or alleviating racism. The site
includes statutes, cases, excerpts of law review articles,
annotated bibliographies and other documents related to race
and racism.
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IHEA 2003 4th World Congress San Francisco
Global Health Economics: Bridging Research and Reforms, June 15th - 18th, 2003
With the expansion of the world economy and increasing migration, parallel flows have occurred in health systems, medical technology and infectious pathogens. Globalism has increased the need for the development and transfer of accurate health economics research and careful policy analysis.
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The Women of Color Web
The Women of Color Web is dedicated to providing access to writings by and about women of color in the U.S. We focus specifically on issues related to feminisms, sexualities, and reproductive health and rights, although we envision adding new sections as interests arise. The site also provides links to organizations, discussion lists, and academic tools concerned specifically with women of color.
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POP/RH Portal
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Development Gateway Foundation launched the POP/RH Portal, an Internet initiative focusing on population and reproductive health. The Portal will provide a community built database of shared population information, including data, research, projects, ideas and dialogue.
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Social Inequalities in Health" - Disentangling the Underlying Mechanisms
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 954:118-139 (2001)
Differentials in health and longevity by socioeconomic status and by the nature of" social relationships have been found in innumerable studies in the social and medical sciences.
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International Poverty and Health Network
The IPHN is a world-wide network of people and organisations from health, business, NGOs,
government and society-in-general who exchange experiences and share information on most effective approaches and solutions for health in poverty eradication policies, strategies and actions.
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The World Food Summit
The World Food Summit: five years later 10 to 13 June 2002. FAO will host a global meeting at its Rome
headquarters from 10-13 June to review progress towards ending hunger. The meeting is meant to
track progress achieved since the 1996 World Food Summit and consider ways to accelerate the process.
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The Public's health and the Law in the 21st century
June 17- 20, 2002 Atlanta, GA Co-sponsor by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics . This three-day conference will explore the role the law plays in protecting the public’s health now and in the future.
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Food Security Resource Center (FSRC) Online Database
The Food Security Resource Center's Online Database offers more than 8,000 items on food aid management, including materials on women and gender
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The CMH Report: Its Relevance for countries of the Latin America and Caribbean Region
The CMH Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health Investing in Health for Economic
Development. Public Policy and Health Program -
Health and Human Development Division -
Pan American Health Organization
CMH.pdf
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Health, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
Health, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction: Concepts and determinants in Latin America and the Caribbean. A shared Agenda presentation, World Bank, PAHO/WHO, IADB/BID. USAID.
hdp-WB.ppt
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Chilean Women Win Legal Access to Emergency Contraception
After a year of legal wrangling, Chilean women have formally won the right to emergency contraception in cases of rape, unprotected sex or contraceptive failure. But despite their victory, the contraceptive itself remains out of reach of many women.
Visit the International Planned Parenthood Federation or PANOS to learn more about this issue.
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HDW Fact Sheet - Social Responses to Gender-Based Violence
Over the last few decades, gender-based violence (GBV) has been
recognized and discussed as a public, rather than a private problem.
As a result, hundreds of potential responses have been identified
within the state and civil society.
socialresponsesgbv.pdf
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Results of the In-house Competition for Multicenter Project 2002
The Research Coordination Program of the Pan American Health Organizations takes pleasure in announcing the results of the in-house competition for the Multicenter Project 2002.
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Gender and Governance Website
KIT Gender announces a new website devoted to Gender and Governance. The website is part of an international programme on Gender, Citizenship and Governance (GCG) that KIT Gender is implementing together with 16 partner organisations from South Asia and Southern Africa.
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Conducting Research Surveys via E-mail and the Web
Internet-based surveys, are becoming increasingly popular because they are believed to be faster, better, cheaper, and easier to conduct than surveys using more-traditional telephone or mail methods. This online book offer practical suggestions for designing and implementing Internet surveys most effectively.
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Funding health care: options in Europe
European Observatory on Health Care Systems - Open University Press, April, 2002 ISBN 0 335 20924 6
Sample chapters available online EO The question of how to generate sufficient revenue to pay for health care has become a serious concern for nearly all European policy-makers. This book examines the advantages and disadvantages of funding arrangements currently in use across Europe.
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Gender and Water Alliance
This website provides information on gender mainstreaming in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Portuguese).
Visit the Gender and Water Alliance
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Results of Competition: Graduate Thesis Grants in Public Health, First Round 2002
The Research Coordination Program of the Pan American Health Organization announces the results of the competition for Graduate Thesis Grants in Public Health, First Round 2002.
Suv-Thesis-eng-2002.htm
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JAMWA Women's Healthlink Library
This link library includes over 300 hundred organizations and more than 1,000 specific links relevant to women's health. The information includes professional resources and a variety of other health resources geared towards women's health. Visit JAMWA!
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Participatory Evaluation - Final Report
In July and August of 2001, HDW carried out a particiatory evaluation of our Integrated Model for the Care of Intra-Family Violence, which has been operating throughout Central America since 1995. We learned some interesting lessons from the evaluation, which we're sharing with you in the Final Report.
Final Report (full text): lessonsfinal.pdf (PDF 223kb)
Executive Summary:
lessonssummary.PDF (PDF 64kb)
Annexes: Lessonsannexes.doc (Word 148kb)
PowerPoint Presentation:
Lessonspowerpoint.ppt (224kb)
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The Lancet explores Violence Against Women
A new Lancet series, continuing for 6 weeks, will explore: the global prevalence and definitions of violence against women; health consequences; prevention; health-sector response; research ethics; as well as violence perpetrated within health-care organisations.
April 6 - Violence Against Women: Global Scope and Magnitude
April 13 - Health Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence
April 20 - Intimate Partner Violence: Causes and Prevention
April 27 - Dilemmas and Opportunities for an Appropriate Health-Service Response to Violence Against Women
May 4 - Bearing Witness: Ethics in Domestic Violence Research
May 11 - Violence Against Women in Health-Care Institutions: An Emerging Problem
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National Professional in Gender and Health Sector Reform
PAHO, through its Women, Health and Development Program is soliciting a National Professional to co-ordinate the Gender Equity in Health Sector Reform Policies Project, based in Peru.
Download the Terms of Reference (Word file - in Spanish)
Visit PAHO in Peru for more information (in Spanish).
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BIREME cellebrates 35 years!
Information of the commemoration of 35 years of Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences (BIREME), in its mission to contribute to the development of the health in Latin America and the Caribbean through the promotion, fortification and democratization of the scientific and technical information in health. More information at BIREME site.
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Francesco Pocchiari Foundation Fellowship
Applications for the Francesco Pocchiari Foundation Fellowship are invited from researchers in Latin America and the Caribbean to enable them to visit other countries in order to obtain new experience relevant to their own research, including advanced studies and/or training in methods and techniques appropriate to their national priorities.
Pocchari-2002-eng.htm
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Quality of care in chilbirth: Seeking a comprehensive approach
This study proposed to elaborate and evaluate a comprehensive method to assess quality of care in childbirth, adopting hospitals as the unit of analysis. Its overall goal was to identify easy to measure and cost-effective indicators to be used on a continuing basis, under a Public Health perspective.
BRA-Res-1180.doc
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Regional Consultation on Policy Tools: Equity in Populations Health
Toronto, Canada 16-17 June, 2002. The conference is expected to contribute both to scholarly and policy debate on policy tools to assist the development, implementation and/or evaluation processes associated with achieving health equity in the Americas. Key themes include: measurement of inequalities, targeting the poor, allocation of health resources, and health impact assessment.
hdp-toronto.htm
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The Guanabara Letter
The Guanabara Letter is a statement approved by 98 representatives of groups from 27 countries in the plenary session of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean, Women''s Rights and the Global Situation (Rio, Dec 3-4, 2001). The September 28th Campaign is calling for additional signatories to the letter. Signatures can be sent to: campanha28set@uol.com.br.
Download the Letter (Word file).
Visit the Campaña 28 de Septiembre website.
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Gendered Aspects of Ageing
INSTRAW has launched a special section on its Website on “Gendered Aspects of Ageing” on the occasion of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, taking place in Madrid, Spain from April 8-12, 2002. Visit INSTRAW!
Download the HDW Fact Sheet on Gender and Ageing (PDF File).
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Bioethics Award - 2002
The Pan American Health and Education Foundation is pleased to announce the introduction of a new international award to recognize and stimulate excellence in the field of bioethics.
The 2002 Manuel Velazco-Suarez Bioethics Award is intended to stimulate young scholars in the development of their capacities for bioethical analysis. The award carries a cash prize of US$10,000 .
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Challenging Inequities in Health: from ethics to action
This volume provides new perspectives on the concept of health equity, empirical evidence on the scale and nature of health inequities in 13 countries and assessments of relevant policy developments and their implications.
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EngenderHealth Minicourses on HIV/AIDS and STIs
EngenderHealth released two online minicourses, entitled Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV and AIDS. They will provide health care providers, especially those in resource-poor settings, with knowledge and strategies for addressing HIV/AIDS and STI prevention, management, and counseling with their clients. The courses are now available via EngenderHealth's Website or on CD-ROM (contact Carrie Svingen).
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Diverse Communities, common concerns: Assessing Health Care Quality for Minority Americans
FINDINGS FROM THE 2001 HEALTH CARE QUALITY SURVEY The Commonwealth Fund.
Available at: CWF
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36th Sub-committee on Planning and Programming - HDW Report
This report presents the mandate, strategic areas, and accomplishments of the Program on Women, Health, and Development (HDW) of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
spp36english.pdf
spp36presentation.ppt
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New Publication on Health Reform and SRH
New from the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Sexual and Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities explores the convergence of the health sector reform processes and the improvement of sexual and reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean. For a free copy of this publication contact the Women in Development Unit (WID/IADB) or download it from the WID Webpage (PDF File - only in Spanish).
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National Gender and Health Accounts Workshop
From October 18-19th 2001, a group of experts came together in Santiago, Chile to respond to the abscence of a methodological instrument for measuring the gender aspect of health. Visit the Health Accounts Page!
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Research Grants Program (RGP)
This page describes the activities of the PAHO Research Grants Program (RGP). It offers information on current calls for proposals, announces the results of said initiatives, and places at the disposal of the user the guides and templates used by the Program for its research projects.
hdr-rgp.htm
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19th Sub-Committee on Women, Health and Development (2001)
Final Report
19subcommitee.pdf
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19th Sub-Committee on Women, Health and Development (2001)
Experiences with the Inclusion of Sexual Violence Indicators in the Health Information and Surveillance Systems of Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru
19subandes.pdf
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19th Sub-Committee on Women, Health and Development (2001)
Domestic Violence Surveillance Systems in Central America
19subca.pdf
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Back Up your Birth Control
The Back Up Your Birth Control campaign kicks off! On March 20th more than 100 U.S. organizations united to launch a campaign to raise public awareness about emergency contraception and to get it into the hands of more women. Visit the new website!
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Nepal Legalizes Abortion
(March 14th - Kathmandu) Reversing 150 years of legal discrimination against women, Nepal’s Lower House of Parliament passed an amendment to the Civil Code that partially legalizes abortion and brings about sweeping changes in many other discriminatory laws. In a nation where one in five women in prison have been incarcerated for having an abortion, Nepal’s government now must take action to release those women. Read more from the Centre for Reproductive Law and Policy.
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Ms. Foundation Announces New Grant Guidelines
The Ms. Foundation for Women announces new grant guidelines for their Safety Program (Spring 2001 cycle). Ms. is seeking proposals from grassroots groups with an organizing approach to violence against women, engaging communities to change the root causes of violence. Deadline for application is April 19th 2002. Visit the Ms. Foundation website to learn more....
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Women in Development at MSU
The Women and International Development Program at Michigan State University (MSU_WID) invites you to visit their web site. The Winter 2002 issue of the WID Bulletin has just been published and is available in full text. WID also publishes a WID Working Papers Series with more than 250 titles available to date. Visit WID for more information.
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International Reproductive Health Policy Fellowship
The Centre for Reproductive Health Policy Research of the Institute for Health Policy Studies (University of California at San Francisco) announces the availability of two post-graduate and/or post-doctoral fellowships in Reproductive Health Policy, supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Visit UCSF's Website.
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White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood
The global Secretariat of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (WRA) has announced the launch of their new website. The new WRA website contains a vast array of information including an extensive links section and a new photo library. Visit the Site!.
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Reproductive Health Alliance
Highlights on the new RHA website include articles on the Alliance's work with young people in Zambia and Kyrgyzstan and the use of participatory
methods that underlies many of their activities. Visit the Site!
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PRB Launches Website in French and Spanish
The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) has recently launched new websites to provide French- and Spanish-speaking audiences with better access to data and analysis. The sites feature articles, publications, and data on adolescents, environment, HIV/AIDS, policy, population trends, and reproductive health.
Visit the Spanish Website!
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Gender and Financing For Development
Read UNFEM's Statement on the Gender and Financing for Development Agenda, published for the International Conference on Financing for Development (March 18-22) in Monterrey, Mexico. Also check out the Conference Website.
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Research Training Fellowships in Health
Invitation to researchers from Latin America and the Caribbean to apply for a one-year postdoctoral training in the intramural laboratories of the NIH. This initiative is aimed at training researchers, with the ultimate goal of building research capacity where it is most needed, by offering the necessary conditions for advanced-level continuing education in priority areas impacting upon public-health issues in the Region.
fogarty.htm
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Gender and Political Participation
The International Institute For Democracy And Electoral Assistance has launched a new site on Gender and Political Participation. The site provides up-to-date information on the status of women's political participation world-wide.
Visit the site!
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The "Gender Equality Tool" (ILO)
The International Labour Organization recently launched a new website called The Gender Equality Tool. Designed to promote information exchange and enhance users' knowledge of gender issues, the website also features information on the recently completed and much-publicized ILO Gender Audit.
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Guttmacher Report Reviews Abstinence-Only Education
The Febraury 2002 Guttmacher Report on Public Policy from the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) reviews the Bush administration's increasing emphasis on abstinence-only education. The full Report is available from the AGI Web site.
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Social Science and Medicine: Issue on Gender and Health
The March 2002 edition (Vol. 54, No. 5) of the journal Social Science and Medicine is devoted to Women's Health and Gender Inequalities. It features articles on such themes as: gender equity and socio-economic inequality; multiple roles and health and how gender affects patterns of social relations.
Access the full text of the journal from the Science Direct website.
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WHO Cabinet Approves Global Gender Policy
(March 6th 2002). The Cabinet of the World Health Organization approved the Global Gender Policy developed by the Gender and Women's Health Department (GWH). PAHO's Women, Health and Development Program, along with the other WHO regions, will be working to adapt and implement the policy in the Americas.
Read the text of the policy.....
WHOgenderpolicy.doc
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Symposium 2001 - Gender Violence, Health and Rights in the Americas
From June 4th-7th 2001, the Women, Health and Development Program co-sponsored, in co-operation with UNIFEM, UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, RSMLAC, Isis International and the Centre for Research in Women's Health, and co-ordinated the Symposium 2001: Gender-Based Violence, Health and Rights in the Americas.
symposium.htm
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Dominican women issue a Declaration for the respect of their human rights...
Dominican women, faced with continuing attacks on their sexual and reproductive rights, especially access to contraception, from the Catholic Church have come together at the Second Dominican Feminists' Conference. Read their declaration at LACWHN's Website. (in Spanish)
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Argentina: Emergency Contraception is every woman
The Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network, LACWHN, with headquarters in Chile, expresses its strongest repudiation of the attack against emergency contraception in Argentina. Read more at LACWHN's Website (in Spanish)
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International Women's Day
Every year on 8 March we celebrate International Women's Day. This occasion recognizes the important contribution of women to social development and justice at the local, national, and international levels. Read more in HDW's Women's Day Handout (PDF file).
iwd2002handout.pdf
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WHO Position Announcement
Technical Officer - Gender and Health
Under the supervision of the Co-ordinator of the Gender and Women's Health Program (GWH), the incumbent will support the work on gender and health within WHO.
WHOposition.doc
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Project to Assess and Learn How Well Health, Nutrition, and Population Activities Are Reaching Disadvantaged Groups
The World Bank's Thematic Group on Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) and Poverty is pleased to invite applications for participation in a project to find out how well health projects reach the poor.
Financial support of up to $40,000 for each of 10-12 submissions, to be selected through open competition; the application deadline is April 19, 2002. Download document for full instructions.
wb-poor-proj.doc
wb-poor-proj.PDF
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Gender and Health: A Technical Paper (World Health Organization )
The aim of this technical paper is to explore some of the implications of the shift from the 'women in development' (WID) to the 'gender and development' (GAD) approach for the analysis of health and health care issues in general and for the work of WHO in particular.
Select this link to go to WHO
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HDW Advocacy Kits
The purpose behind WHD Advocacy Kits is to present a current issue in Gender and Health in a concise and user-friendly way.Each kit contains a fact sheet (or series of fact sheets), a brief issue paper and a power point presentation.
advocacykits.htm
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Education in Gender and Health
A registry for universities and other schools which offer degree/diploma programs on gender, women's health or women's human rights issues. The main focus of the page is the Americas.
education.htm
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Gender and Health Fact Sheets (HDW)
The Women, Health and Development Program publishes a monthly fact sheet in English and Spanish on a current theme in gender equity and health. Examples include: Emergency Contraception, Men's Role in Reproductive Health (forthcoming) and Gender and Ageing.
factsheets.htm
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Training in Gender and Health
A registry of training courses that educate the general public, health professionals, development workers or other target
audiences about a specific theme in gender or women's health. Course subjects include gender-based and domestic violence, masculinities, men's role in reproductive health, women and communicable disease, integrating gender into development etc.
gendertraining.htm
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GENSALUD - Discussion Group on Gender and Health
GENSALUD is the electronic discussion group of the Women, Health and Development Program. It is a resource only listserv which disseminates information on gender and women's health issues.
gensalud.htm
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Gender and Health Links
Links to different organizations working in the gender, health and women's rights themes
links.htm
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Gender and Health Calendar
This page presents some of the latest gender and health news, as well as a complete listing of conferences and other events organized around the theme.
calendar.htm
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Describing Population Health in Six Domains
One of the World Health Organization's longest standing mandates is the collection and routine reporting of information on population health. In addition to estimates of mortality and disease, assessment of health status from population based surveys contribute to estimates of population health.
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About the Program on Women, Health and Development
This page provides an overview of the Program on Women, Health and Development, our mission, projects and activities.
abouthdw.htm
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MADRE Condemns the Colombian Offensive
On February 21, 2002, Colombia's 38-year conflict exploded into full-fledged war when President Pastrana unilaterally broke off peace talks with the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, is extremely concerned about the escalation of violence and the threat of grave human rights abuses against women and families.
Read more...
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Results of Competition: Research Training Grants in Public Health 2001
The Research Coordination Program of the Pan American Health Organization announces the results of the competition for Research Training Grants in Public Health.
Suv-Capacita-eng-2001.htm
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Fellowship
Postdoctoral/Staff fellowship positions are available to study the development and characterization of novel modulators of innate immunity with a special emphasis on the response to biowarfare agents.
nih.doc
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Criteria for evaluating evidence on public health interventions
Public health interventions tend to be complex, programmatic, and context dependent. The evidence for their effectiveness just be sufficiently comprehensive to encompass that complexity.
website
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Dying for Change - Poor people's
This is a joint WHO - World Bank publication, based on material gathered by the Voices of the Poor project. Dying for Change presents poor people's views and testimonies on health care services and the causes and consequences of ill health.
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Infectious Diseases Report
Infectious Diseases Report points to way out of Poverty to health
WHO Scaling Up the Response to Infectious Diseases: A Way Out of Poverty, a new report by WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, the World Bank, UNESCO and UNFPA will be launched at the World Economic Forum.
website
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Infectious Diseases Report
Infectious Diseases Report points to way out of Poverty to health
WHO Scaling Up the Response to Infectious Diseases: A Way Out of Poverty, a new report by WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, the World Bank, UNESCO and UNFPA will be launched at the World Economic Forum.
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Hepatitis B Vaccination In The Colombian Amazon. Effectiveness And Factors Influencing Vaccination Coverage
Abstract: A vaccination coverage survey was carried out in the Colombian Amazon, a former high endemic area for hepatitis B, involving 3573 children less than 11 years old. It was carried out in Leticia, Puerto Nariño, and Araracuara, both urban and rural areas. In conclusion, the introduction of a recombinant Cuban manufactured hepatitis B vaccine has produced a marked decline in the high infection prevalence of children in the Colombian Amazon area.
Col-1543-Res-.doc
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Knowledge Based Society - Listserver - Equity, Health and Human Development
As a tool to build research capacity and help researchers transfer knowledge to policy makers. Description of topics and networks.
equidad.pdf
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HDW Fact Sheet - Medical Power and Gender-Based Violence
Health-care providers have the power to hurt and to help victims of gender-based violence
medicalwheel.pdf
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HDW Fact Sheet - Gender and Ageing
Though women tend to live longer, they experience greater morbidity and have less access to health care than men. The health needs of older women will become increasingly important over the next decades.
genderageing.doc
genderageing.pdf
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Project Summary: Mainstreaming Gender Equity in Health Sector Reform Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
A three-year initiative aimed at identifying and redressing gender inequities associated with current implementation of health sector reforms (HSR) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
hsrsummary.pdf
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Inequality Course - Online
Four online sessions on Measurements of Inequality
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WHO - Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
WHO Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development.
Website
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Social inequality and health in México 1990-1997: Individual and policy pathways -
The amis of the research is to study how social inequality has influenced the health status of the Mexican population at the individual level from a social class perspective as well as the state level from a policy perspective between 1990 and 1996. Explore the individual and policy pathways through which social inequality affects health.
MEX-Res-3003.doc
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Trade in Health Services (THS) in the Americas: Trends and Opportunities
Provide an overview of the nature of international trade in health service, the positive as well as negative implications of this trade for equity, efficiency, quality, and access to health services. It also outlines some of the main barriers constraining trade in health services. Presentation at International Summit on the Private Health Sector ,December 2-5, 2001, Miami, Florida, USA [Slides on PDF file]
trade.pdf
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Health Sector Reform and Equity: Bolivia and Brazil Study Cases
This paper takes a look at how equity indicators have been affected by health sector reform in two developing countries: Bolivia and Brazil.
TR78.pdf
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ACHR-01-06-Findings - Multicentric Project: Macrodeterminants of Health Inequities
Document of the XXXVI Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Kingston, 9-11 of July 2001
ACHR-01-06.PDF
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International Workshop on Gender and Health Acocunts
The International Workshop on Gender and Health Accounts, organized by the PAHO representation in Chile, the Health and Human Development Division at PAHO/WHO and FONASA (Fondo Nacional de Salud - Chilean Ministry of Health) took place on October 18th-19th in Santiago, Chile.
healthaccounts.htm
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Results of Competition: Graduate Thesis Grants in Public Health, 2nd Round 2001
The Research Coordination announces the results of the competition for GraduateThesis Grants in Public Health, 2nd. Round.
Suv-2001-eng.htm
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Results of Competition: Graduate Thesis Grants in Public Health, 2nd Round 2001
The Research Coordination Program of the Pan American Health Organization
takes pleasure in announcing the results of the competition for Graduate Thesis Grants in Public Health.
Suv-2001-eng.htm
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Results of Competition: Results of the In-house Competition for Multicenter Project 2001
The Research Coordination Program of the Pan American Health Organization takes pleasure in announcing the results of the in-house competition for the Multicenter Project 2001.
multicen-2001-eng-1.htm
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Health Information technology - Development Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean
Expert Consultation Workshop: A Conceptual Framework for the construction of Health Services
Information Technology Indicators. Washington, D.C. - October 16-17, 2001 [Slides in PDF file]
IT_Indicators.PDF
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New Frontiers in Women's Health: An International Dialogue
Journal Watch Women's Health, a monthly publication of the Massachusetts Medical Society, which also publishes the New England Journal of Medicine, will hold its 2nd international symposium, "New Frontiers in Women's Health: An International Dialogue," on March 8 and 9, 2002, in Nice, France. The symposium will consist of plenary sessions, workshops and interactive poster sessions designed to improve understanding of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of key health disorders that affect women, improve understanding of key gender differences in medical care and health outcomes, promote a dialogue on the best practices for caring for women patients, and address public-health and health policy issues relevant to caring for women. For more information contact Jennifer C. Goodwin, or visit the Symposium Web site.
Symposium Web Site
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HDW Fact Sheet - Trafficking of Women and Children in the Americas
Throughout the world, human trafficking continues with near impunity, carrying with it high costs for the millions of women and children trafficked and exploited in the sex industry.
traffickingfactsheeteng.doc
traffickingfactsheeteng.pdf
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Trafficking of Women and Children for Sexual Exploitation in the Americas
The Women, Health and Development Program (HDW/Pan-American Health Organization) has been working with the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM/Organization of American States), to develop a concept paper outlining the context of the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation in the Americas.
trafficking.doc
trafficking.pdf
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Trafficking of Women and Children for Sexual Exploitation in the Americas
The Women, Health and Development Program (HDW/Pan-American Health
Organization) has been working with the Inter-American Commission of Women
(CIM/Organization of American States), to develop a concept paper outlining the
context of the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation in the
Americas.
trafficking-pr.doc
trafficking-pr.pdf
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Elements for a Plan of Action
Health problems of high prevalence in groups of African descent and factors hat are under control in the Health Sector.
SAfrica.pdf
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Measuring socioeconomic status/position in studies of racial/ethnic disparities: examples from maternal and infant health.
Conclusions about the role of race/ethnicity (and SES) in health could vary with how SES is measured. Education is not an acceptable income proxy among ethnically diverse childbearing women. Based on theoretical considerations and these and previous examples, SES measures should generally be outcome- and population-specific, and chosen on explicit conceptual grounds; researchers should test multiple theoretically appropriate measures and consider how conclusions might vary with how SES is measured.
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WHO - Health and freedom from discrimination
This document was produced by the World Health Organization:Department of Health and Development,
Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments Cluster,WHO Headquarters,Geneva, together with the Public Policy and Health Program, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), WHO Regional Office for the Americas,Washington,D.C. It is available from the WHO website.
WHO website
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HDW Fact Sheet - Gender and Child Development
The gender roles that a society assigns to its children will have a determining effect on their future: their access to food and education; their labour force participation; their status in relationships; and their physical and psychological health.
childdevelopment.doc
childdevelopment.pdf
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Inter Agency Web Page on National Health Accounts
Health accounts website is jointly sponsored by the InterAmerican Development Bank, the PanAmerican Health Organization, the United States Agency for International Development and the World Bank, is
designed to provide users with up-to-date information about how to collect, analyze, interpret, present and use information about public and private spending on health services in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Health accounts—systematic tabulations of health spending by source, use and function—can allow
policymakers and health systems researchers to obtain a better understanding how resources are used to produce health services.
NHA-Website
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The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Social Safety Nets: What Can the Caribbean Expect?
Estimates for the Caribbean highlight the magnitude of the potential economic burden of the disease for this region, showing its capacity to erode the economic base and by extension, and the need for nations to arm themselves for what may well be the biggest health and development battle that the region has engaged in to date. Information on the extent of the economic losses expected from HIV/AIDS has since been used as one of the critical inputs into the advocacy efforts in the region.
(Paper presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Social Security, July 23rd-25th 2001. Kingston, Jamaica.)
hiv-pol.pdf
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Aftermath of the Caracas Declaration
XXVI International Congress on Law and Mental Health
Montreal, Canada
July 3-6, 2001
Montreal.July.ppt
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HDW Fact Sheet - Gender and Food Security
Food security is a multifaceted concept that encompasses a broad range of issues, all of which are central to women, yet women's role in food security has remained practically invisible to many policy-makers.
foodsecurity.doc
foodsecurity.pdf
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Breastfeeding Determinants in Latin America
Research Report's Abstract. The author presents a secondary data analysis that was conducted with data collected between 1985 and 1999 as par of the Demographic and Health Survey program in six Latin American countries. The study was conducted with the aim of determining the secular trend o breastfeeding duration in urban and rural areas in Latin American countries with two or more DHS and to identify in each country risk factors for shorter breastfeeding duration.
GUT-Res-3002.pdf
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ACHR-01-01-Agenda of the Meeting
Document of the XXXVI Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Kingston, 9-11 of July 2001
ACHR-01-01.PDF
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ACHR-01-02-List of Participants
Document of the XXXVI Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Kingston, 9-11 of July 2001
ACHR-01-02.PDF
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ACHR-01-03-List of Documents
Document of the XXXVI Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Kingston, 9-11 of July 2001
ACHR-01-03.PDF
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ACHR-01-04-Research in the World Health Organization - A slide presentation
Document of the XXXVI Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Kingston, 9-11 of July 2001
ACHR-01-04.PDF
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ACHR-01-05-Findings - Multicentric Project (SABE): Aging, Health and Wellbeing in LAC
Document of the XXXVI Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Kingston, 9-11 of July 2001
ACHR-01-05.PDF
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ACHR-01-07-Strategies for the Utilization of Research Results in Decision Making in Health
Document of the XXXVI Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Kingston, 9-11 of July 2001
ACHR-01-07.PDF
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ACHR-01-08-Progress Report - Multicentric Project: Gender Analysis of Dietary and Exercise Behavior in the Caribbean
Document of the XXXVI Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Kingston, 9-11 of July 2001
ACHR-01-08.PDF
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ACHR-01-09-Multicentric Project: Quality Evaluation of Radiodiagnostic Services
Document of the XXXVI Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Kingston, 9-11 of July 2001
ACHR-01-09.PDF
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ACHR-01-10-Technical Cooperation in Health Systems and Services Research
Document of the XXXVI Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Kingston, 9-11 of July 2001
ACHR-01-10.PDF
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ACHR-01-11-PAHO Research Grants Program Report
Document of the XXXVI Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Kingston, 9-11 of July 2001
ACHR-01-11.PDF
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ACHR-01-13-Report to the Director
Document of the XXXVI Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Kingston, 9-11 of July 2001
ACHR-01-13.PDF
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Fact Sheet on Health Inequalities in Jamaica
This Summary Sheet for Jamaica has been produced using data from the 1998 Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions. The annex provides information about sample sizes from that survey and on other general health issues.
HDD-Jam.pdf
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Results Program PAHO/OPS-Harvard Center for Society and Health
Document containing the results of the competition for the joint program with the Harvard Center for Society and Health for Research Internships on Health Inequities.
rsltHarv.PDF
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Gender Equity and Health Sector Reform Polices: Guide for the Preparation of Reports
This guide presents the analysis of health sector reform processes from a gender perspective. (Only available in Spanish)
guiagenderreform.pdf
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Aftermath of the Caracas Declaration: The Development of Mental Health Policies and Legislation in Latin America and the English-speaking Caribbean During the Last Ten Years
This study reviews the status of mental health policies and legislation, in order to determine the degree to which mental health legislation has complied with the reform process called forth by the Caracas Declaration. It gives consideration to the special circumstances that have characterized the last decade. Topics covered: the impact of the Caracas Declaration on psychiatric care, mental health policy, and legislation and their developments over the last decade in the Latin American and English-speaking Caribbean countries.
mhp-hdd.pdf
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Equity in Health: From an Ethnic Perspective
Poverty and discrimination are so intertwined that it is now difficult to determine
whether individuals are poor because of ethnic discrimination or are discriminated
against because they are poor. What is not open to question, however, is that pov-
erty maps overlap with those of ethnic groups. Societies build up barriers that pre-
vent minorities and ethnic and racial groups from enjoying equal opportunities.
Ethnicity.pdf
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XXXVI Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)
Documents of the XXXVI Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Kingston, 9-11 of July 2001
Full-text Documents
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Equity and Health: Views from the Pan American Sanitary Bureau
The concept of equity has emerged as a primary guiding for the work of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau. The Bureau has been gathering information on and examining issues related to disparities in health in the Americas, especially as they relate to socioeconomic factors.
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Working Group on Utilization of Scientific Information
Difficulties exist in the utilization of scientific evidence in guiding policymaking, which have puzzled researchers and decision-makers alike. In a series of case studies done in Mexico, Bronfman et al. identified four main types of obstacles in the use of health research by decision-makers, i.e. obstacles related to context, content, stakeholders, and process. Appropriate means of diffusion of research results, which is one element that this workshop, promoted by PAHO and FUNSALUD addressed.
hdr-mex.htm
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Strategies for utilization of scientific information in decision-making for health equity
The report summarizes the presentation and discussion that took place at the Strategies for Utilization of Scientific Information in Decision Making for Health Equity workshop held in Cuernavaca, Mexico, June 5-7, 2001. The main objective of the workshop was to formulate recommendations for the further development of PAHO's VHL project and the creation of a multisectoral review group on health equity. It includes summaries of the presentations and discussions given during the seminar. Theoretical Frameworks, Policy implications of selected studies in Latin America and Caribbean and d the use of information and communication technology for health equity in the Americas.
Report-Cuernavaca.pdf
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Titles Technical Papers Series Research in Public Health
This page describes and provides links to the documents in the Technical Papers Series Research in Public Health, created by the Research Coordination Program to disseminate papers containing methodologies and research findings of projects sponsored and financed by the Research Grants Program.
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Demand of maternal health care services in Ecuador
Research Report's Abstract. The purpose of the study is to generate empirical knowledge that will provide policy makers with an understanding of the influence of insurance coverage on demand for maternal health care. A bivariate probit model is used to estimate the effect of insurance status, along with individual, -household-, and location-specific characteristics, on the use of prenatal care and birth delivery care, using data from the Survey of Living Conditions 1998.
ECU-Res-3004.doc
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Results of Competition: Graduate Thesis Grants in Public Health, 1st Round 2001
This announcement, in both English and Spanish, communicates the results of the competition for Graduate Thesis Grants in Public Health, 1st round 2001.
t1st2001.pdf
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PowerPoint Presentation - Trafficking of Women and Children
Throughout the world, human trafficking continues with near impunity. It is a high-profit and low-risk endeavor for the traffickers. However, it is not low-risk for the millions of women and children trafficked and exploited in the sex industry.
traffickingpresentationeng.ppt
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Evaluating the Impact of Health Reforms on Gender Equity: A PAHO Guide
This guide has been produced by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to aid in monitoring and evaluating the impact of health reform processes on gender equity in the region.
evaluationreform.pdf
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Symposium 2001 - Gender Violence, Health and Rights in the Americas - June 4th -7th , 2001 Cancún, Mexico
The Symposium is being organized as part of the ‘A Life Free of Violence: It’s Our Right’ Campaign, whose objective is the recognition of gender-based as a human rights and public health issue. Its message “Women’s Rights are Human Rights” aims at breaking the cultural structures that legitimize violence against women and girls.
2.flyer.Eng.doc
2.flyer.Eng.pdf
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Utilization of Scientific Information in Decision-Making for Health Equity
This workshop will be held in Cuernavaca, Mexico from June 5 - 7, 2001. The objective of the workshop is to formulate recommendations for the further development of PAHO's Virtual Health Library project and the creation of a collaborative review group on health equity, thereby encouraging intersectoral alliances that will promote the development of evidence-based policies for health equity.
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Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information, April 2001
PAHO's V Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information (CRICS V) will take place in the Palace of the Conventions of Havana, Cuba, from April 25th - 27th 2001. The main theme is "Knowledge to change: information and knowledge for health equity". The conference was Organized by BIREME, The Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information of the Pan American Health Organization, in coordination with the National Center of Information in Medical Sciences of the Ministry of Public Health in Cuba.
CRICS5_sponsorship.htm
CRICS5_sponsorship.doc
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Growth is Good for the Poor
This study investigates link between the income of the poor (defined as the bottom 20 percent of the
income distribution) and overall income (per capita GDP) using data from 80 countries over 40 years.
The study examines the poverty-growth relationship in cases of poor countries versus rich countries,
crisis periods versus normal growth periods, and the recent period compared to earlier times. It also
introduces other institutions and policies into the analysis and asks whether these influence the extent
to which growth benefits the poor. olicy Research Working Paper 2587. World Bank, Development Research Group, Washington, D.C.
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Health and trade
Presentation on Health and Globalization
USAID Latin America and Caribbean Bureau
Washington, DC, May 3, 2002
Health and Trade.April.ppt
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Research Grants Program (RGP)
This page describes the activities of the PAHO Research Grants Program (RGP). It offers information on current calls for proposals, announces the results of said initiatives, and places at the disposal of the user the guides and templates used by the Program for its research projects
hdr-rgp.htm
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19th Sub-Committee on Women, Health and Development (2001)
Analysis and Monitoring of Gender Equity in Health and Development: Production of Gender Statistics in Mexico
19submexico.pdf
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19th Sub-Committee on Women, Health and Development (2001)
Analysis and Monitoring of Gender Equity in Health and Development: Why and How
19subanalysis.pdf
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19th Sub-Committee on Women, Health and Development (2001)
Analysis and Monitoring of Gender Equity in Health and Development: Experience of Ecuador
19subecuador.pdf
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Health and Gender Equity
The puropose of this document is to present the ethical and empirical underpinnings of PAHO's mandate to "incorporate the gender perspective in health policies and strategies" (Only available in Spanish).
equidadgenerosalud.doc
equidadgenerosalud.pdf
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Jamaica- Technical Series No. 7, 2001 On Dispatities in Access, use and expenditure in Drinking Water in Latin America & the Caribbean
Latin America and the Caribbean is a Region of major social and economic inequalities. These inequalities have reflections and consequences in all the areas of human well-being. The traditional sources of information on access to drinking water do not make it possible to study more than inequalities by large areas or to investigate the share that the expenditure with drinking water represents in the structure of households' consumption, in accordance with their economic characteristics.
jamaica.doc
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HDW Fact Sheet - Gender and Natural Disasters
The recent increase in attention to the effects of natural disasters has resulted in a plethora of different perspectives on the issue. In particular, several authors have brought a gender focus to the analysis of disaster mitigation and response, with some very interesting results.
genderdisasters.doc
genderdisasters.pdf
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Research on Health Inequities in Support of Policies Aimed at Their Reduction: Research Internships at the Harvard Center for Society and Health
The PAHO Research Coordination Program and the Harvard Center for Society and Health have created this joint initiative to strengthen research capacity for the study of health inequities in Latin America and the Caribbean. This will be carried out through internships aimed at research training within the context of a research project involving quantitative data on inequities and producing a scientific article for publication. Interns will spend an academic year at Harvard and will participate in various activities within the context of project development. The attached document provides applicants with the information they need to apply for these internships.
hdp-hdr-har.doc
hdp-hdr-har.pdf
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Pan American Fellowships at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
PAHO/WHO and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) invite researchers from Latin America and the Caribbean to apply for one-year post-doctoral training in the intramural laboratories and/or offices of the NIH. This initiative is aimed at training researchers, with the ultimate goal of building research capacity where it is most needed, by offering the necessary conditions for advanced-level continuing education in priority areas impacting upon public-health issues in the Region.
fog-nih.doc
fog-nih.pdf
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HDW Fact Sheet - Cervical Cancer
Across the Americas, lack of access to adequate screening and treatment services means that one of the most easily preventable, detectable and treatable forms of cancer has become a significant cause of mortality among women, especially poor women.
cervicalcancer.doc
cervicalcancer.pdf
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HDW Fact Sheet - Domestic Violence During Pregnancy
Domestic violence is gradually being acknowledged as one of the most severe threats to women's health, especially pregnant women.
violencepregnancy.doc
violencepregnancy.pdf
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Workshop on Gender, Health and Development: A Facilitator
A methodology for mainstreaming the gender perspective in health - aimed at health planning professionals, the guide looks at the linkages between gender, health and human development and helps health professionals gain confidence in applying that method to their areas of expertise.
workshopeng.pdf
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Nutritional Equity and National Food and Nutrition Security Programs: The Case Study of Jamaica (Tecnical Report Series, No. 73)
The purpose of this study is to analyze the national food and nutrition programs in the Caribbean Region as part of public policy analysis. Poverty is defined as a state whereby individuals and groups are unable to satisfy basic needs such as food. The analytical approach used in this study combined focus group participation and nutritional data to illustrate (a) whether these programs are alleviating the effects of poverty and (b) if nutritional equity is achieved by access to food, utilization and financing a minimum nutritional package of food at the national intervention level. Jamaica is the first country as a case study to be analyzed. Policy recommendations are stated based on the qualitative inquiry and analyses.
chan.pdf
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Violence Against Women: A Priority Health Issue Information Pack (WHO Publication)
The package focuses on violence in families, rape and sexual assault, violence against women in situations of conflict and displacement, as well as violence against the girl child.
Select this link to go to WHO
WHD has translated this Information pack into Spanish:
violenceprioritythemesp.doc
violenceprioritythemesp.pdf
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WHO Collaborating Centres: General Information. Document RPC/WHOCC/2
The Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) assigns this Organization the function of promoting and conducting research in the field of health. The optimal way of promoting research and related activities is through collaboration with national institution within its Member States. This Information booklet outlines the main futures of the system of WHO Collaborating Centres, including its functions, role, and rationale, as well as the procedural aspects of its management.
coll.pdf
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Gender Training
The importance of gender training was higlighted during the Beijing Conference on Women. By exposing participants to new ideas, beliefs and possibilities, gender training challenges the prevailing notions about women and their capabilities. The ultimate goal of gender training is to redress the gender-based inequities that exist at all levels in every society, by changing the attitudes of those that help to perpetrate them.
Gendertraining.doc
Gendertraining.pdf
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Material Living Conditions and Health in the United States, Canada and Western Europe: Review of Recent Literature and Bibliography
This paper summarizes the work developed in Canada, the United States of America and Western
Europe on Material Living Conditions and Health. The authors present an overview of this production in
the decade and list over 500 works, putting them in context and many of them with comments on their relevance. The work was prepared simultaneously with Dr. Naomar de Almeida's overview for works in the same area in Latin America and the Caribbean (Document 19 of the same Series).
series09composite.pdf
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Health & Human Development in the New Global Economy: The Contributions and Perspectives of Civil Society in the Americas
Presentations of experts made at the meeting “Health and Human Development in the New Global Economy: Experiences, Opportunities, and Risks in the Americas,” held in Galveston from 26-28 October 1998. The objective of this forum was to examine the impact of the economic globalization process and technological change on health trends in the Region of the Americas.
GAL-ENG-.pdf
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Latin American and Caribbean Basic Health Legislation (LEYES)
The LEYES database contains comparative health legislation from Latin American and English-speaking Caribbean countries. It indexes the following legal instruments: national constitutions, health codes, sanitary codes, acts, statutes, regulations and international agreements when applicable.
database-LEYES.htm
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ACHR-00-09-Macro-determinants of Inequities in Health
Document of the XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Habana, Cuba. 17 to 19 July 2000.
ACHR-00-09.pdf
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ACHR-00-11-Analysis by Gender of Dietary Behavior and of Exercise in the Caribbean
Document of the XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Habana, Cuba. 17 to 19 July 2000.
ACHR-00-11.pdf
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ACHR-00-12-Research Activities at INCAP
Document of the XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Habana, Cuba. 17 to 19 July 2000.
ACHR-00-12.pdf
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ACHR-00-01-Agenda
Document of the XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Habana, Cuba. 17 to 19 July 2000.
ACHR-00-01.pdf
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ACHR-00-02-List of Participants
Document of the XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Habana, Cuba. 17 to 19 July 2000.
ACHR-00-02.pdf
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ACHR-00-03-List of Documents
Document of the XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Habana, Cuba. 17 to 19 July 2000.
ACHR-00-03.pdf
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ACHR-00-04-Research in the World Health Organization
Document of the XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Habana, Cuba. 17 to 19 July 2000.
ACHR-00-04.PDF
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ACHR-00-05-Regional Health Research Agenda
Document of the XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Habana, Cuba. 17 to 19 July 2000.
ACHR-00-05.pdf
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ACHR-00-07-Progress in Implementation of the Virtual Health Library
Document of the XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Habana, Cuba. 17 to 19 July 2000.
ACHR-00-07.pdf
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ACHR-00-13-PAHO Research Grants Program Report
Document of the XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Habana, Cuba. 17 to 19 July 2000.
ACHR-00-13.pdf
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ACHR-00-15-Report of the XXXV ACHR Meeting
Document of the XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Habana, Cuba. 17 to 19 July 2000.
ACHR-00-15.pdf
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ACHR-00-14-Conferencia: El Impacto actual y futuro de la Biología Molecular en la Salud
Document of the XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Habana, Cuba. 17 to 19 July 2000. (Only in Spanish)
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ACHR-00-08-Health and Economic Growth
Document of the XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Habana, Cuba. 17 to 19 July 2000.
ACHR-00-08.pdf
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Fact Sheet, Issue No. 22, July 2000 - Program on Women, Health and Development
Health sector reform strategies and their gender impact.
fs022e.doc
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Environmental Health Indicators and Development of Preventive Actions against Ascaris lumbricoides Infectons in Rural Communities: Caparaó and Alto Caparaó, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Technical Papers Series Research in Public Health, number 29, June 2000)
The purpose of this paper was to develop a composite environmental health indicator with potential use as a decision-making tool as well as in defining preventive measures against ascariasis (roundworms) in eleven rural communities in the municipalities of Caparaó and Alto Caparaó, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
series29composite.pdf
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About GENSALUD
This electronic discussion group of the Program on Women, Health and Development of the Pan American Health organization is a RESOURCE ONLY listserv to disseminate information relevant to any individual or organization working on women's issues.
gensalud.htm
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Consultancy Announcement
Objective: coordination of the project “Mainstreaming Gender Equity in Health Sector Reform Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Location: Santiago, Chile. Duration of the contract: Two and a half years, beginning in January 2001. Issue Date: June 8, 2000. Closing date: August 11, 2000.
announce-consult.htm
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Sexual Intimacy among Young Teenagers in Pelotas, Brazil: Achieving Maturity in a Complex World.Technical Papers Series Research in Public Health, number 25 (June 2000)
The objective of this study was to explore adolescent practices related to the construction of sexual identity. The term sexual identity was meant to cover all behaviors and ideologies locally salient for young people’s views of themselves as sexual beings.
series25composite.pdf
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Inequalities in Health Based on Living Conditions: Analysis of Scientific Output in Latin America and the Caribbean and Annotated Bibliography
Technical Papers Series Research in Public Health, number 19 (June 2000)
series19.pdf
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Sexual intimacy among young teenagers in Pelotas, Brazil: Achieving maturity in a diversified world
The objective of the study was to explore adolescent practices related to the construction of sexual identity. The term sexual identity was meant to cover all behaviors and ideologies locally salient for young people's views of themselves as sexual beings. The methods: A sub-sample of 93 children from a 1982 epidemiological birth cohort was selected randomly from eight census districts. Unstructured methods (participant observation, unstructured yet guided interviewing and semi-structured observation) were used repeatedly with each adolescent from December 1997 to August 1998. (Abstract/Report)
BRA-Res-1355.doc
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Protocol of the Multicenter Study: Comparative Gender Analysis of Dietary and Exercise Behaviour in the Caribbean: A Framework for Action (Technical Papers Series Research in Public Health, number 21, June 2000)
This study aims to establish guidelines for effective health and nutrition promotion interventions in the subregion. Male and female responses will be compared at each stage The study will utilize three of the core constructs of the trans-theoretical model: the stages of change (the central organizing construct); decisional balance; and self-efficacy in examining fruit and vegetable consumption and exercise participation among adults over 18 years old.
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Protocol of the Multicenter Study-Inequities in Health Status, Access and Expenditure: Using Secondary Data to Inform Policy-Making (Technical Papers Series Research in Public Health, number 22, May 2000)
This project constitutes an inter-program effort, to which is attached an extensive bibliographical review on the subject covering not only the developed countries but Latin America as well. The proposal establishes different levels of analysis (regional, national and local) and will combine the utilization of secondary data with the application of a probabilistic household survey in certain localities with more than 300,000 inhabitants.
series22composite.pdf
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XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)
Documents of the XXXV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), Habana, Cuba. 17 to 19 July 2000
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Breastfeeding and Milk Insufficiency in Esmeraldas City, Ecuador: A Biocultural Perspective. Technical Papers Series Research in Public Health, number 28 (May 2000)
While it is widely recognized that breastfeeding is best for babies, many women stop breastfeeding earlier than recommended because they believe they are producing insufficient milk. There is a debate about whether women who report insufficient milk actually produce less breastmilk, or whether the perception of milk insufficiency results from factors such as cultural beliefs, misconstrual of the breastfeeding process, or inadequate social support.
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Science for health: notes on the organization of scientific activity for the development of health in Latin America and the Caribbean
Article of Rev Panam Salud Publica v.7( n.5) Washington May 2000. It discribes the curent trends and demands on health sciences organizing scientific activity to promote healt in Latin America and the Caribbean. The economic, political, and social structures are associated with the way that those nations produced, disseminated, and used scientific knowledge.
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Poverty Network
PovertyNet is a World Bank web site developed to provide resources for people and organizations
working to understand and alleviate poverty.
Website
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Fact Sheet, Issue no. 18, March 2000 - Program on Women, Health and Development
Men and Gender Equity in Sexual and Reproductive Health. Gender Equity, Gender Indicators, Male Involvement, Sexual and Reproductive Health
factsheet_18.htm
factsheet_18.doc
factsheet_18.pdf
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Helping Ourselves to Help Others: Guide for the Self-Help of People Working in Intra-Family Violence
Specialists in the field of gender-based violence explore some of the possible side effects for those who work with situations of violence on a regualr basis. These include: Vicarious traumatization, secondary post-traumatic stress, and other emotional disorders (Only available in Spanish)
autocuidadosp.doc
autocuidadosp.pdf
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Health Modules in Household Surveys in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Analysis of Recent Questionnaires
The report examines the approach to health questions in household surveys, which are among the most useful sources of information for the analysis of equity in health and the design of public policies to reduce inequity. It describes the subjects addressed in the health modules of questionnaires used by household surveys conducted recently in countries of the Region. The main objective is to highlight their potential for analysis, as well as to pose certain methodological and conceptual questions related to use and interpretation of the results.
tr72ferrer.pdf
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Equity, Gender and Health Policy Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean
The recent impetus given to the reform of health and social security policies throughout the Region has given rise to an intense debate on the impact of these policies on equity in health and human development. Up to now, this debate has focused on concerns with respect to geographic location and social stratum, without considering gender.
cepalgenderreform.pdf
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Health System Inequalities and Inequities in Latin America and the Caribbean: Findings and Policy Implications
The paper summarizes the concepts, methods, and results of a study on measuring health system
inequalities in six countries of the Latin American and Caribbean region: Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala,
Jamaica, Mexico, and Peru. Illness concentration curves and a health status inequality index are used to
assess and compare health status inequalities. Concepts of vertical and horizontal equity and inequity and inequality indices are used to measure inequities in access to health care services and in the financing of national health systems. Benefit incidence analysis is used to assess the distribution of the benefits of government expenditures on health by socioeconomic groups.
suarez.pdf
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Psychiatric Care and Mental Health Legislation in the English-Speaking Caribbean Countries (Technical Report Series No.71 December 1999)
This document presents a study on psychiatric care and mental health legislation. It describes and analyzes mental health laws as they apply to curative care, rehabilitation and prevention care, in the English speaking Caribbean societies.
TR71.PDF
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Tobacco and Adolescent Girls: The Current Trends
This booklet explains the health effects, trends and risk factors for smoking especially among adolescent girls in the region of Americas. There are approximately 1.1 billion smokers in the world today, 200 million are women 1). The rate of women starting this behavior is increasing rapidly, particularly among adolescent girls and in developing countries. Addressing tobacco use among women and taking action now should be a high priority for the health of current and future generations.
tobaccoeng.pdf
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Principles and Basic Concepts of Equity and Health
This document explore the conceptual framework and some defintions of equity.
pahowho.pdf
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Previous exposure-dependent factors related to protection against malaria in a Brazilian amazon migrant population: an Open cohort study*
This study describes the relationship between previous exposure-dependent factors and malaria occurrence, using an open-cohort design. All individuals living in two hypo-endemic rural communities of Peixoto de Azevedo (MT - Brazil) between Sept.1996 and Apr.1997 were eligible. These results may help plan appropriate malaria control activities for migrants.
BRA-RES-1473.doc
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Recidivism among Jamaican teenage mothers: A historical cohort study (1994-1997)
Research Report's abstract that studies a historical cohort assessed the effect of the WCJF Program on the incidence of repeat pregnancies during the period 1995-1998, and on the educational attainment of program participants. A random sample (n=260) of primiparous Jamaican adolescent mothers 12-16 years who gave birth in 1994 in the parishes of Kingston & St. Andrew, St. Catherine and Manchester was selected from vital records and interviewed for this study in 1998.
JAM-Res-1480.doc
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Managing and Financing Health To Reduce the Impact of Poverty In the Caribbean: Implementing Decentralization and Financing Strategies while Protecting the Poor
Decentralization and health care financing are two of the main health reform strategies being pursued by Caribbean Countries. Poverty reduction programs are also being advocated as an integral aspect of human development and economic growth in the entire region. This document examines how specific aspects of health reform can be implemented and at the same time protect the
poor.
policygreeneonline.pdf
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XXXIV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)
Documents of the XXXIV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)Washington, DC, 12-14 of July 1999
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ACHR-99-01-Agenda
Document of the XXXIV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Washington, DC, 12-14 of July 1999
ACHR-99-01.PDF
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ACHR-99-02-List of Participants
Document of the XXXIV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)Washington, DC, 12-14 of July 1999
ACHR-99-02.PDF
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ACHR-99-04-The Promotion of Research at WHO
Document of the XXXIV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)Washington, DC, 12-14 of July 1999
ACHR-99-04.PDF
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ACHR-99-05-Technical Research Cooperation by the Panamerican Health Organization
Document of the XXXIV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Washington, DC, 12-14 of July 1999
ACHR-99-05.PDF
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ACHR-99-06-The Regional Program on Bioethics of the Panamerican Health Organization
Document of the XXXIV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)Washington, DC, 12-14 of July 1999
ACHR-99-06.PDF
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ACHR-99-07-Research Financing in Latin America and the Caribbean
Document of the XXXIV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Washington, DC, 12-14 of July 1999
ACHR-99-07.PDF
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ACHR-99-08-Results of the Research Project on Health, Growht, and Income Distribution in Latin America and the Caribbean (Only in Spanish)
Document of the XXXIV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)Washington, DC, 12-14 of July 1999
ACHR-99-08.PDF
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ACHR-99-09-Results of the Studies on Health Sector Reform
Document of the XXXIV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)Washington, DC, 12-14 of July 1999
ACHR-99-09.PDF
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ACHR-99-10-Report of the Research Grants Program
Document of the XXXIV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)Washington, DC, 12-14 of July 1999
ACHR-99-10.PDF
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ACHR-99-11-Research Activities of the Latin American Center of Perinatology
Document of the XXXIV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)Washington, DC, 12-14 of July 1999
ACHR-99-11.PDF
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ACHR-99-12-Visits to PAHO Divisions and Programs
Document of the XXXIV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)Washington, DC, 12-14 of July 1999
ACHR-99-12.PDF
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ACHR-99-13-Final Report
Document of the XXXIV Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)Washington, DC, 12-14 of July 1999
ACHR-99-13.PDF
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Health, Growth and Income Distribution in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Study of Determinants and Regional and Local Behavior (Technical Papers Series Research in Public Health, number 18, 1999)
This collection of studies examines the impact of health on economic growth in Latin America. It shows evidence of long-term causality from health to economic growth and of complex interactions between health and the main economic indicators including income, education, economic participation and fertility.
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Research Protocol: The Local-Level Social Response to Intra-family Violence
This protocol is an adaptation of the "Critical Route" sutdy. It is part of the PAHO initiative to amplify and consolidate an integrated model of care of intra-family violence at the community level. (Only available in Spanish)
socialresponsesp.doc
socialresponsesp.pdf
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Ethics and Law in the Study of AIDS
This is a compilation of papers by noted experts in the fields of bioethics, law, and medicine. It
expounds some of the ethical and legal dilemmas arising out of the epidemics of HIV infection and AIDS
and proposes solutions that seek to ensure respect for fundamental human rights.
Website
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Protocol of the Multicenter Study: Health, Well-Being and Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean (Technical Paper Series Research in Public Health, Number 6, April 1999)
The SABE Project is a multicenter study to evaluate the health conditions and well-being of adults aged 60 years and over, with special attention paid to those over 80, in selected cities of Latin America and the Caribbean. The study represents a collaborative effort between research centers and institutions of recognized excellence in the subject, under the auspices and technical cooperation of the Pan American Health Organization. The project is being conducted under the technical coordination of the Regional Program on Family Health and Population, Division of Health Promotion and Protection.
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The Caribbean Community and the Association of Caribbean States: A Search for Synergy in the Health Universe Occasioned by Economic Globalization (Technical Report Series No.69 April 1999)
This document presents the characteristics of economic globalization related to health and its implications in the English-speaking Caribbean countries. Trade development and External Economic Affairs were discussed.
TR69.PDF
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Questionnaire and Manuals: Cultural Norms and Attitudes Towards Violence in Selected Cities of Latin America and Spain (Project ACTIVA) (Technical Papers Series Research in Public Health, number 1, January 1999)
The ACTIVA Project is the outcome of a multicenter study to evaluate violence and related cultural norms and attitudes in selected cities of Latin America and Spain. The study represents a collaborative effort between research centers and institutions of recognized excellence in the subject, under the auspices and technical cooperation of the Pan American Health Organization. This document constitutes the uniform questionnaire and manuals used for the household survey, applied in all countries involved in the multicenter study
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Victimization from Urban Violence: levels and related factors in selected cities of Latin America and Spain
This article compares the levels of victimization associated with various causes and identifies their related factors in eight cities in Latin America and Spain. For this purpose regional data from the Multicenter Study, Project ACTIVA, were used.
doc514.pdf
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Economic Growth and the Income of the Poor
This paper examines the factors associated with growth in the incomes of the poor across countries.
Aggregate economic growth is highly correlated with the growth in the incomes of the poor. On average
across countries, an increase of one percent in average income (both level and growth rate)
corresponds to an increase of one percent in income of the poor. While there are some countries in
which the incomes of the poor grow more slowly, there are an equal number in which the incomes of
the poor grow faster than overall growth.CAER II Discussion Paper 36. Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge.
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Violence from Urban Violence: Levels and Related Factors in Selected Cites of Latin America and Spain (Project ACTIVA) (Technical Papers Series Research in Public Health, number 4, January 1999)
This article compares the levels of victimization associated with various causes and identifies their related factors in eight cities in Latin America and Spain. For this purpose regional data from the Multicenter Study, Project ACTIVA, were used. This study, coordinated by the Pan American Health Organization, was conducted in 1996.
series04composite.pdf
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18th Sub-Committee on Women, Health and Development (1999)
Final Report
18subcommittee.pdf
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18th Sub-Committee on Women, Health and Development (1999)
Gender Equity in Health Sector Reform
18subhsr.pdf
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18th Sub-Committee on Women, Health and Development (1999)
Addressing Violence Against Women in Health Sector Reform Policies in Central America
18subca.pdf
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18th Sub-Committee on Women, Health and Development (1999)
Women's Needs and the Response of the Health Sector Reform Process in Chile: Health Insurance and Women's Coverage
18subchile.pdf
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18th Sub-Committee on Women, Health and Development (1999)
Women's Needs and the Response of the Health Sector Reform Process in Ecuador: Implementation of the Reform Law on Free Maternity Care in Support of Health Sector Reform
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Dietary and lifestyle factors related to risk of obesity and hypertension in Jamaican women. Implications for health promotion
Research report's abstract that has as objectives: To determine dietary and lifestyle practices associated with obesity and hypertension in Jamaican women, and to obtain information on knowledge and attitudes towards obesity, diet and activity.
JAM-Res-1176.doc
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Psychosocial risk factors among women workers in the maquiladora industry in Mexico
Abstract of the report of research that identifies and evaluates the main psychosocial risk factors among women workers in the foreign investment plants located in Mexico under the "Maquiladora Program".
MEX-Res-1368.doc
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Health Services Financing and Private Sector Participation: Developing a model incorporating American and Caribbean Experiences (Technical Report Series No.65 November 1998)
This document presents an analysis to develop regulatory frameworks for the health financing reform in the Caribbean region. Presents US experiences in health financing, regulation on private sector and especially managed care providers, are presented to help identify relevant issues to private health care financing.
TR65.PDF
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Health services financing and private sector participation: developing a model incorporating American and Caribbean experiences
The United States’ experience with private sector financing is of interest to Caribbean policy
makers considering the potential for greater local private sector participation to generate additional
health care funding. This paper reviews comparative experiences in health financing of three diverse
“sub-models” within the United States, and of two Caribbean countries, with an emphasis on US
regulation of private sector financing and managed care.
doc448.pdf
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Research Protocol: The Critical Route that Women Follow when Affected by Intra-Family Violence
This publication outlines the design, formulation and implementation of the research protocol used in Domestic Violence: Women's Way Out study. (Only available in Spanish)
protocolorutacritica.pdf
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Environment, Gender and Health
This paper is directed at environmental health professionals, including those involved in vector control, who seek to incorporate a gender perspective in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of environmental health policies and programs. Much has been written about environment and gender. But a discussion of the impact of the interaction of environmental factors and gender on health has been missing.
environment.pdf
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Agenda (ACHR/98.01)
The 33th Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, 1-3 June 1998
doc338.pdf
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List of documents
doc458.pdf
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Analysis of Some Successful Experiences: Collaborating Centers in Veterinary Public Health (ACHR32-97.13)
Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research.
doc007.pdf
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Research promotion: control of infectious diseases in the Americas (ACHR/98.06)
The 33th Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, 1998. Acute respiratory infections (ARI) , diarrheal diseases (DD), cholera, malnutrition, malaria, vaccine-preventable diseases, meningitis, and septicemia are responsible for over 200,000 deaths each year in children under 5 years of age in the countries of the Americas.
doc342.pdf
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XXXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)
Documents of the XXXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Research in health and environment. Caracas, 1-3 of June 1998
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ACHR-98-01-Agenda
Document of the XXXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Research in health and environment. Caracas, 1-3 of June 1998
ACHR-98-01.PDF
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ACHR-98-03-List of Documents
Document of the XXXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Research in health and environment. Caracas, 1-3 of June 1998
ACHR-98-03.PDF
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ACHR-98-04-Promotion and Development of Research Within CONACYT/MEXICO
Document of the XXXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Research in health and environment. Caracas, 1-3 of June 1998
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ACHR-98-05-PAHO’s Research Activities in Health and the Environment
Document of the XXXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Research in health and environment. Caracas, 1-3 of June 1998
ACHR-98-05.PDF
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ACHR-98-06-PAHO’s Research Activities in the Control of Infectious Diseases
Document of the XXXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Research in health and environment. Caracas, 1-3 of June 1998
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ACHR-98-07-Technical Cooperation in Scientific-Technical Cooperation in Health
Document of the XXXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Research in health and environment. Caracas, 1-3 of June 1998
ACHR-98-07.PDF
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ACHR-98-08-Report on the Results of the Multicenter Project on Violence (Project ACTIVA)
Document of the XXXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Research in health and environment. Caracas, 1-3 of June 1998
ACHR-98-08.pdf
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ACHR-98-09-Report of the Thirty-fifth Session of the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research
Document of the XXXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Research in health and environment. Caracas, 1-3 of June 1998
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ACHR-98-10-Progress Report on Multicenter Projects
Document of the XXXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Research in health and environment. Caracas, 1-3 of June 1998
ACHR-98-10.PDF
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ACHR-98-11-Research in the Social Sciences and Health
Document of the XXXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Research in health and environment. Caracas, 1-3 of June 1998
ACHR-98-11.PDF
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ACHR-98-12-Health Systems and Services Research
Document of the XXXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Research in health and environment. Caracas, 1-3 of June 1998
ACHR-98-12.PDF
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ACHR-98-13-Health Research in the 21st Century: Transparencies
Document of the XXXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) Research in health and environment. Caracas, 1-3 of June 1998
ACHR-98-13.PDF
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BIREME and the Latin American and Caribbean System on Health Sciences Information: toward the virtual library (ACHR/98.07)
BIREME has established a plan of action for the implementation of the VHL based on 5 lines of action: promotion and marketing; realignment of traditional products and services; production of electronic publications; development of tools for integrating and locating information; and development of other VHL components.
doc343.pdf
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Progress report of the multicenter project on violence (Project Activa)
Violence in the Region of the Americas has been a source of concern among different social sectors, including governmental and non-governmental organizations. In addition, violence has been defined as a major source of worry in population surveys among residents of large cities. Violence is one of the greatest threats to public health and social security, since it is not only the cause of numerous premature deaths, but also a cause of injury and disability.
doc453.pdf
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Progress report on multicenter projects
Project ACTIVA ended its data collection phase in April 1997 and began compilation of the regional database and the corresponding clean-up and standardization of the data for comparative analysis. It was a laborious process, and a totally clean database was ready by January 1998.
doc454.pdf
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Research in the social sciences and health
As a means to comprehend a new reality or explaining, socially, a given epidemiological reality. Sociologists seek this explanation from a comprehensive perspective of the culture in anthropological studies or from the macrosocial or historical condition.
doc455.pdf
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Health systems and services research
During the present biennium 1998-1999, HSP will address among others priorities, strengthening HSSR as the Restructuration Directive dictates. It is timely to do it because the conceptual SSS cooperation framework is defined. The fundamental proposition is that the HSSR the Organization promotes be used to strengthen the SSS cooperation areas in the four programs of the Division.
doc456.pdf
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List of participants
doc457.pdf
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Research promotion and development within CONACYT/MEXICO)
The main objective of this program is to promote scientific progress in Mexico by increasing the number of grant recipients and specialized graduate-level programs, improving the quality of research projects and increasing their relevance to the problems of Mexico’s social and economic development, creating
incentives for private innovation, promoting a real science and technology culture.
doc340.pdf
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Health Legislation Virtual Library
A Regional initiative on Health Legislation
website
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Benchmarking - shared experiences and establishing best practices
A presentation on Benchmarking as intelligent copying of learned experiences to improve efficiency and equity in health care.
prepct.pdf
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Health Legislation Trends in the English-Speaking American Region: The Last Four Years (Technical Report Series No.63 December 1997)
This document presents a comparison of The Canadian, Caribbean and the United States Health Care Systems. Some of the topics include: general trends in health care legislation toward equity in health, environmental health, international law, worker's health, public assistance, medical insurance and public health.
TR63.PDF
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The Integrated Model of Care of Intra-Family Violence
In the last few years in Central America, a series of efforts have contributed to ensure that all seven countries recognize intrafamily violence as a public health concern deserving immediate attention. As a result, countries have put into place legislation and committed human and financial resources designed to facilitate the operation and consolidation of a model of integral care to respond to intrafamily violence.
integratedmodel.doc
integratedmodel.pdf
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Workshop on gender, health and development: facilitator
The manual, designed for conducting a workshop on GENDER, HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT, incorporates a number of different training methods and approaches.
doc516.pdf
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Science and technology policy in health at the Institutional Level
doc010.pdf
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Results of the activities of the Research Grant Program 1996
Nineteen ninety-six could be characterized as a year of transition, in which modalities for the receipt and financing of research proposals existed side by side with unsolicited proposals and new modalities for the promotion and support of research, such as research competitions, programs for the training and education of investigators in public health, and support for multicenter projects.
doc013.pdf
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Nurses making the difference: WHO Collaborating Centers for Nursing and Midwifery Network (ACHR32/97.10)
The nursing response to global health is to hold governments accountable by assuring visibility of issues that count, by initiating meaningful debate, and by proposing solutions for change. This common cause
has strengthened the international cohesiveness of the nursing community to focus on the formation of partnerships with groups to promote health and prevent diseases.
doc001.pdf
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New methodologies for health situation analysis
Several new approaches are being explored by or under the auspices of the Global ACHR and its Sub-Committees. A progress report can be given on two initiatives on health indicators. These concern how to handle the complexities of health measurement. The target in each case is to extend the available insight into the origins of health deficits.
doc003.pdf
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Trends and challenges in health research in Latin America: a perspective
Modern medicine, the outgrowth of the fundamental contributions of Pasteur, Jenner, Koch, and other researchers, has developed immunization techniques, treatments, surgical procedures, pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care, and improvements in environmental sanitation. These have changed the course of diseases and health problems.
doc004.pdf
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ACHR-97-03-List of Documents
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-03.PDF
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ACHR-97-04-WHO Collaborating Centers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-04.PDF
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ACHR-97-05-Science and Technology Policy in Health at the Institutional Level
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-05.PDF
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ACHR-97-06-General Information on Collaborating Centers
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-06.PDF
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ACHR-97-07-Report - Biotechnology Subcommittee
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-07.PDF
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ACHR-97-08-Results of the Activities of the Research Grants Program 1996
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-08.PDF
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ACHR-97-09-Report on the Multicenter Project: Health and the Older Person
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-09.PDF
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ACHR-97-10-Nurses Making the Difference: WHO Collaborating Centers for Nursing and Midwifery Network
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-10.PDF
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ACHR-97-11-Research Agenda to Implement New Health for All Strategies
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-11.PDF
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ACHR-97-12-New Methodologies for Health Situation Analysis
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-12.PDF
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XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR)
Documents of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
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ACHR-97-01-Agenda
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-01.PDF
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ACHR-97-16-Visits to PAHO Divisions and Programs
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-16.PDF
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ACHR-97-17-Report of the HSSR Subcommittee
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-17.PDF
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ACHR-97-18-Report of Biotechnology Subcommittee
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-18.PDF
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ACHR-97-20-Final Report
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-20.PDF
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Research Agenda to Implement New Health for All Strategies (ACHR/97.11 )
The 32th Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research, 16-18 July 1997
doc002.pdf
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Health in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (Technical Report Series No.60 July 1997)
This document presents an analysis of The North American Free Trade Agreement its impact in the regional context.
TR60.PDF
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ACHR-97-14-Trends and Challenges for Health Research in Latin America: A Perspective
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-14.PDF
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Report of the ACHR Subcommittee on Health Systems and Services Research
Since the last meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR), the Subcommittee on Health Systems and Services Research (HSSR) has worked with the Research Coordination Program (HDR), toward the conceptualization and organization of a regional program of research on "organizational and financial changes of health sector reform.”
doc006.pdf
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ACHR-97-13-Evaluation of Successful Experiences: WHO Collaborating Centers in Veterinary Medicine
Document of the XXXII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR).Washington, DC,16-18 of July 1997
ACHR-97-13.PDF
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Estimating Household Health Expenditures
In most developing countries household health spending accounts for the largest single source of financing entering the health sector. Accurate estimation of this critical part of the sector's funding base is what distinguishes National Health Accounts (NHA) from other more conventional health expenditure studies, and is the one that presents, typically, the greatest problems in estimation.
nhahenderson.pdf
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Towards and Integrated Model care of intrafamily violence: broadening and consolidating interventions coordinated by the State and Civil Society
In the last few years in Central America, a series of efforts have contributed to ensure that
all seven countries recognize intrafamily violence as a public health concern deserving immediate
attention. As a result, countries have put into place legislation and committed human and
financial resources designed to facilitate the operation and consolidation of a model of integral
care to respond to intrafamily violence.
doc422.pdf
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Workshop on Gender, Health and Development: A Facilitator's Guide
To date there has been little work conducted in laying out a methodology for health planning professionals that made visible the linkages between gender, health and human development and helped health professionals gain confidence in applying that method to their areas of expertise.
workshopeng.pdf
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Reducing Poverty in the Caribbean: Implications for Health and Education (Technical Report Series No.58 December 1996)
This document presents an analysis on issues in health and education and their possible role in strategies for poverty reduction in the Caribbean. The general relationships between macroeconomic, basic socioeconomic indicators and factors are concerned with access, quality, and equity in health and education.
TR58.PDF
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Poverty Reduction and Social Policy in the Caribbean: The Role of Health and Education - Mexico (Technical Reports Series No.50 May 1996)
This document presents data on poverty trends in Mexico, including principal characteristics of health, demographics, mortality, nutritional deficiencies, coverage of services and the educational system. Some topics covered are: The economic and social policies, solidarity programs and decentralization and local level policies.
TR50.PDF
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Poverty and Intervention in Health and Education - Guyana (Technical Reports Series No.51 May 1996)
This document presents data on poverty assessments and the poverty situation in Guyana, including distribution of income, United Nations development program index, concepts and application, poverty typology and target groups. Other topics covered are: Access, Equity and Efficiency in Health and Education, Nutrition, Housing, Sanitation, Water and poverty alleviation programs.
TR51.PDF
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Poverty Documents Series HDP/HDD 1995-1996
Technical documents on poverty reduction strategies
poverty-doc.htm
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Poverty Reduction Strategies: The Role of Health and Education - A Trinidad and Tobago Perspective (Technical Reports Series No.46 November 1995)
This document presents data reviewing the access by the poor to social programs in Trinidad and Tobago. Some of the themes are: an overview of health and education sector and issues of accessibility, national poverty policies and their application in health and education, poverty reduction strategies, and a case study on youth training and employment partnership program.
TR46.PDF
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Strategies for Poverty Reduction and Social Policy in Venezuela: The Role of Health and Education (Technical Reports Series No.47 August 1995)
This document presents data reviewing the repercussions of poverty not only for education, health and nutrition of the population but also for its effects, on crime and violence, environmental degradation, housing, and other social conditions in Venezuela. The data presents poverty reduction in the past, proposals of the present government, plan in education and health, sources of resistance to implementation of strategies in health education.
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State, Development and Health: Technical Discussion - 1993 (Technical Reports Series No.36 February 1995)
This document presents the results of the discussions on State, Development and Health that took place in September 1993 at PAHO/WHO. Some summaries include the following programs: human resources development, maternal and child health and population. Also summaries on the following divisions were discussed: promotion and protection, health environment, communicable disease prevention and control, and health systems
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Public Administration, Health Law and Public Health Advocacy (Technical Reports Series No.43 February 1995)
This document presents data on the experience of academic institutions fostering community participation and citizenship in Brazil. Some of the themes described are: preparing public health and legal professionals to assume a leadership role in social management, health law and public health advocacy and community participation. Planning concepts are suggested to guide future collaboration between academia and community and non-governmental organizations.
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Strategies and Policies for Addressing the Needs of Vulnerable Social Groups: A Contribution from the field of Health (Technical Reports Series No.44 February 1995)
Paper prepared for the Conference on Development and Poverty in Mexico. The paper addresses the needs of vulnerable social groups in Latin America and the Caribbean and the practices of these programs. Current problems are mentioned and prevention measures are discussed, focusing on social groups and specific problems. The preventive and curative approaches are compared from the standpoint of equity, efficiency, and effectiveness.
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Health Policies in the 1990
This document presents data to help planning for future decisions on health policies for the Region. Some of the decisive factors include: national and international socioeconomic and political contexts, the health conditions of the country's scientific and technical capacity, and the resources available to its health sector.
TR45.PDF
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International Trade in Health Services: Main Issues and Opportunities for the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (Technical Reports Series No. 33 July 1994)
This document presents a comparative analysis of International Trade in Health Services in five countries of the Americas. The report describes the study background, conceptual framework, and the main issues to consider in formulating policies on International Trade in Health Services.
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Health Legislation Trends in the English-Speaking American Region: The last Fout Years (Technical Reports Series No.27 November 1993)
This document presents data comparing Canadian legislation regarding health and health care and health legislation trends in the Caribbean and the United States. Some of the trends analyzed are, congressional action related to pharmaceutical products, medical care, work and family and environmental health.
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Workers Health in the Development of Latin America and the Caribbean (Tecnical Reports Series - No. 21, February1993)
Collection of papers on globalization of international markets, prevention, political and administrative decentralization and the role of the ministries of labor.
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Debt for Health Conversion: An Option for Additional Funding (Technical Papers Series - No. 5, April 1992)
This document describes the possibility of financing health projects through debt conversions in Latin America and the Caribbean. There are some summaries of the PAHO documents on debt conversion. The document describes the rationale for debt conversions, other types of debt conversions, potential sources of financing, debt ownership, alternative approaches to implement debt for health conversion, a comparative analysis and a proposed model of comprehensive solution.
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Final Report of the IDB/PAHO Technical Seminar on Health, Food and Nutrition (Technical Reports Series #1, December 1991)
The document describes a series of meetings on health, food and nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean. Critical aspects on Nutrition are discussed.
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Mental Health legislation in the Caribbean (Technical Report - Series #2, December 1991)
This paper analyzes the mental health legislation of the English-speaking Caribbean to determine if it conforms to current international standards for such legislation. The topics discussed were mental health as a public health problem, third world mental health care: conventional institution model, the law and mental health and the Caribbean mental health legislation. It was concluded that mental health legislation in the Caribbean is generally antiquated and makes no allusion to psychiatric service delivery, community-based services, national mental health policy, standards of care and treatment, designation of authority for mental health care, and provision of patient rights. But vast potential for legislative modernization exists in the islands.
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