paper will critically analyze the program effect model with respect to health and nutrition outcomes, present the health and … nutrition evaluation results to date, draw some conclusions regarding the use of CCT programs to improve health and nutrition …

, public policy can be driven by factors that are least likely to improve the population's health. …

Neglected Infectious Diseases (NIDs) remain one the most underfunded disease categories in global health despite their … for Neglected Tropical Diseases/Sabin Vaccine Institute, and the Pan American Health Organization/WHO, together with the … implement other health measures for the benefit of all children and adults affected by these terrible diseases.Abstract: Las …

This is the first study that uniformly analyzes health perceptions in all of Latin America and tests in a systematic … of health self-assessment questions: i) health satisfaction; ii) health status on a scale of 0- 10; and iii) the EuroQol …-national comparisons of health perceptions, but it does not find support for the widely held view that the same applies within countries …

health tend to be higher the lower the nation's level of economic development. This paper considers a discrete choice model …

This study is designed to help practitioners prepare and evaluate institutional reforms for education and health …

on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects. The use of climate change … effects of extreme weather. Mothers' education, sanitation access and health care assistance to pregnant women represent the … main instruments for addressing neonatal health problems. …

con Garantías Explícitas) health reform. The evaluation was carried out by examining secondary data on access to care …

) Design; 4) Performance; 5) Issues and Problems; 6) Political Economy of Change. An appraisal of the health situation …

Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, countries are in the midst of debates about their health systems … takes Chile as an example, a country whose health reform has been widely decried as the most horrible of neo-liberal health … reforms. However, the author states that Chile has one of the most progressive health systems in the world when measured by …