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Sharing Histories-a transformative learning/teaching method to empower community health workers to support health behavior change of mothers
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: One of the keys to improving health globally is promoting mothers' adoption of healthy home practices for improved nutrition and illness prevention in the first 1000 days of life from conception. Customarily, ...
The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health
(Elsevier, 2018)
The Lancet Countdown tracks progress on health and climate change and provides an independent assessment of the health effects of climate change, the implementation of the Paris Agreement, 1 and the health implications of ...
The effects of social health insurance expansion and increased choice on perinatal health and health care use: lessons from the uruguayan health care reform
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2018)
In 2007 the Uruguayan government launched a reform aimed at expanding social healthinsurance to family-members of formal workers and to retirees. The policy increased insurance generosity -relative to the safety net ...
Understanding drivers of domestic public expenditure on reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health in Peru at district level: an ecological study
(BioMed Central, 2018)
BACKGROUND: Peru has increased substantially its domestic public expenditure in maternal and child health. Peruvian departments are heterogeneous in contextual and geographic factors, underlining the importance of disaggregated ...
Health at Birth, short-run health effects and educational outcomes
(2018-08)
This paper estimates the effects of birth weight on health and educational outcomes for Brazil using a twin fixed effect approach. The recent literature, mainly based on data from developed countries, has provided evidence ...
Health access to immigrants: identifying gaps for social protection in health
(Universidade De Sao Paulo. Faculdade De Higiene E Saude Publica, 2020)
OBJECTIVE
To compare the access to and effective use of health services available among international migrants and Chileans.
METHODS
Secondary analysis of the National Socioeconomic Characterization Survey (CASEN – ...
Austerity comes to Latin America: Lessons from the recent European experience on studying its effects on health
(Universidad Nacional de Lanús, 2019)
National Health Insurance: A conceptual framework from conflicting typologies
(Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2019)
In the path to universal health coverage, policymakers discuss different alternative health system's financing schemes. Classical typologies have been posited, including models such as National Health Service, Social Health ...