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Health technologies and decision making
2005
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Health Technologies and Decision Making
2005
Health technology has the tremendous potential to change our understanding of disease, transform the delivery of health-care services, and improve health outcomes. But using such technology comes at a price. Health Technologies and Decision Making analyses the barriers to, and facilitators of,...
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Child vaccination rates
OECD - 20XX
diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), and measles. Childhood vaccination rates reflect the percentage of children that …. It is measured as a percentage of children at around age 1. …
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Relationship between fertility, child martality and nutrition in Africa
Mondot-Bernard, Jacqueline M. - 1977
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Economic Valuation of Environmental Health Risks to Children
2006
The relationship between environment and children’s health has been the subject of increasing interest these last ten … States nearly 1 in 13 school-age children (approximately 4.8 million) has asthma, and the rate is increasing more rapidly in … school-age children than in any other group. The importance of this issue has resulted in a growing number of epidemiological …
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Economic valuation of environmental health risks to children
OECD - 2006
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Improving Value in Health Care : Measuring Quality
2010
Are breast cancer survival rates higher in the United States than in the United Kingdom and France? Are a patient's chances of dying within 30 days after admission to a hospital with a heart attack lower in Canada than in Korea? Are surgeons in some countries more likely to leave “foreign...
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Applying modeling to improve health and economic policy decisions in the Americas : The Case of Noncommunicable Diseases
2015
The book introduces several models for assessing health and economic policies in relation to NCDs; shows how the models can be used for different diseases or risk factors; and provides case studies of those models’ application in various countries in the Americas. The ultimate goal is to help...
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Test No. 240: Medaka Extended One Generation Reproduction Test (MEOGRT)
2015
This Test Guideline describes the Medaka Extended One Generation Test (MEOGRT), which exposes fish over multiple generations to give data relevant to ecological hazard and risk assessment of chemicals, including suspected endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Exposure in the MEOGRT starts with...
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