Author : Diego Armus
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 2003-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822330691
DIVEdited volume that takes a non-traditional approach to the history of medicine in Latin America, and emphasizes the cultural and social construction of disease./div
Author : Pan American Health Organization
Publisher : Pan American Health Org
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2002
Category : America
ISBN : 9275115893
This book describes the principal conceptual, methodological, and empirical developments stemming from PAHO and WHO's institutional efforts in public health, which have entailed the broad and committed participation of the Member States. It provides and overview of the status of Essential Public Health Functions (EPHF) in 41 countries and territories of the Americas, based on self-evaluation exercises performed by health authorities to measure their performance.
Author : Moyses Szklo
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 1449604692
This book is specifically designed to expand reader knowledge while avoiding complex statistical formulations. Emphasizing the quantitative issues of epidemiology, this book focuses on study design, measures of association, interaction, research assessment, and other methods and practice. The Second Edition takes readers who have a good understanding of basic epidemiological principles through more rigorous discussions of concepts and methods.
Author : Marcos Cueto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351882899
This investigation of the history of epidemics in various parts of Peru during the twentieth century opens up a new field for Latin American studies to include health and disease. These are important areas of the past that enable us to understand better the living conditions of people, the role of state authority and the dynamics of social movement.
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Medicine
ISBN :
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release :
Category : Medicine
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 1973
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Medicine
ISBN :
Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0889369232
Reshaping Health Care in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Author : Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199233772
The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social laboratory for the reform of these systems. This is the first book to comprehensively study these influential reforms in Latin America's pension and health care systems.
