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    Growing older in Africa and Asia: Multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being. Global health Action journal, supplement 2

    Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010
    Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Article titles include:
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    A study on the improvement of sanitationin rural areas with water logged sandy soils: case of Monkey Bay

    National Research Council of Malawi, 2007
    Sanitation  remains one of the pillars of good health in Malawi. This study aims at finding ways for improving sanitation for rural people living in areas with water logged sandy soils. It also looks at the mode of construction of local pit latrines and their effectiveness in improving sanitation. The research focuses on the Monkey Bay area of Malawi.
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    China’s rapidly aging population: program and policy implications

    Population Reference Bureau, 2010
    The proportion of elderly citizens in China will continue to grow very quickly, as a combination of China’s one-child policy and low mortality takes effect, increasing the stress on an already troubled health care system. Only 40 percent of elderly males and just 13 percent of elderly females receive any kind of support from a pension:
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    Centre for Social Protection (CSP)

    The Centre for Social Protection (CSP) at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK, supports a network of partners working to mainstream social protection in development policy and encourage
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    Pro Mujer

    Pro Mujer is an international women’s development and microfinance organization whose mission is to provide Latin America’s poor women with the means to build livelihoods for themselves an
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    STOP AIDS NOW!

    STOP AIDS NOW! is working towards a world without AIDS. Our work involves:
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    Arab Human Development Report 2009: challenges to human security in Arab countries

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2009
    This report examines human development in the Arab world through a human security lens, calling on policymakers and other stakeholders to move away from a state-centric conception of security to one which also concentrates on the security of individuals, their protection and their empowerment.
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    Access to health care in relation to socioeconomic status in the Amazonian area of Peru

    2009
    Good health is recognised by many as being central to individual and national development. However, there is often a disconnect between the access and utilisation of health services by the poor.
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    Epi + demos + cracy: linking political systems and priorities to the magnitude of health inequities - evidence, gaps, and a research agenda

    Oxford Journals, 2009
    There is a new focus within both social epidemiology and political sociology to investigate how political systems and priorities shape health inequities. This paper, published in Epidemiologic Reviews, advances and better integrates research on political determinants of health inequities.
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    Closing the gap in a generation

    World Health Organization, 2008
    Social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels, and are themselves influenced by policy choices.

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