enMonday, November 12, 2007
Health in the Americas: Brazil
Capítulo sobre Condições de Saúde no BR 2007. Há um capítulo para cada país da América e outro temático para o conjunto
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Our Greatest Challenge? Global Inequalities in CV Care
Low and middle income countries suffer more than 80% of the global burden of cardiovascular disease, but more than 80% of global expenditure on cardiovascular health care occurs in high income countries, according to Stephen MacMahon from The George Institute for International Health in Sydney, Australia.
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Why has healthcare reform failed?
To make it work, lawmakers need to understand the barriers that have blocked reform.By Henry Aaron November 6, 2007Every 15 years or so, proposals to reform the entire U.S. healthcare system seize national attention. It suggests that even if it succeeds, healthcare reform will not come from a single bill that transforms a $2.5-trillion industry but from repeated legislation of modest scope enacted over many years.
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Shaping the world to illustrate inequalities in health
Shaping the world to illustrate inequalities in healthDanny Dorling a, Anna Barford aVisualizing inequalities in health at the world scale is not easily achieved from tables of mortality rates. Maps that show rates using a colour scale often are less informative than many map-readers realize. Labels: inequality
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AHA President: Disparities in health care
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Conner Lecturer: Social inequality
Conner Lecturer: Social inequalityboosts heart diseasePoverty is widely recognized as a risk factor for poor health and lower life expectancy, but lack of income is not the main determinant of health.
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Saturday, November 03, 2007
The social determinants of health:Developing an evidence base for political action
Political briefing• The health of individuals and of populations is determined to a significant degree by social factors.• The social determinants of health produce widespread inequities in health within and between societies.
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The authors would like to thank Somsak Chunharas, John Lynch, Carlos Silva,Cesar G Victora and Michael C Wolfson for their peer reviews of this report.
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