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  Measuring health inequality among children in developing countries: does the choice of the indicator of economic status matter?

  BioMed Central, 2003

  This study, published by BioMed Central, compares the impact of four different wealth indices on the measurement of health inequality among children in developing countries. The study uses the World Bank Asset Index and three other indices, all based on household assets, to analyse data from Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Chad, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, Tanzania and Uganda.
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  Culturally appropriate information, education and communication strategies for improving adolescent reproductive health in Cusco, Peru

  Population Council, USA, 2004

  This report from the Population Council documents a study by Comunicación Andina in rural Peru. Researchers surveyed adolescents living within the broadcast range of an educational radio series on their knowledge and attitudes relating to sexual and reproductive health. At the same time, they identified and trained adolescents as peer promoters for the radio series in local schools.
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  Health promotion through self-care and community participation: elements of a proposed programme in the developing countries

  Health Research Policy and Systems, 2004

  This paper from BMC Public Health proposes a broad outline for designing health promotion programmes in developing countries, based on the Ottawa Charter for health promotion and principles of self-care and community participation.
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  Managing the migration of health-care workers

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004

  This article in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) examines the key issues related to the international migration of health workers and discusses strategic approaches to managing migration.
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  Parliamentary functions and reforms and their application in promoting health equity in southern Africa

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2003

  This paper from Southern African Regional Network for Equity in Health (EQUINET) and the Global Equity Gauge Alliance (GEGA) aims to provide insight into the practical challenges faced by parliaments and parliamentarians in addressing the issues of equity in health. It goes on to describe the attempts that have been made to address those challenges in southern Africa.
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  Manual for reducing drug-related harm in Asia

  Centre for Harm Reduction, Melbourne, 2003

  This updated edition of the 1999 manual from The Centre for Harm Reduction provides a comprehensive guide to HIV/AIDS programming for injecting drug users (IDUs) in Asia. Following an overview of the HIV epidemic among IDUs in Asia, the manual details the rationale for harm reduction, and examines how this can be balanced and integrated with supply and demand reduction approaches.
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  Working with private sector providers for better health care: an introductory guide

  Options Consultancy Services, 2001

  This guide, produced by Options Consultancy Services, aims to provide a practical but critical approach to developing strategies for working with private sector providers (PSPs) for better health care in developing countries.
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  Using human rights in maternal mortality programs: from analysis to strategy

  International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2001

  This article in International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics describes an approach to maternal mortality reduction that uses human rights to guide the design and implementation of maternal mortality policies and programmes. It calls for programmes and policies to prioritise measures that promote universal access to high quality emergency obstetric care services.
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  Safe motherhood initiatives: critical issues

  Reproductive Health Matters, 2000

  This book, produced by Reproductive Health Matters, provides an overview of the problems and challenges raised by safe motherhood work and examples of some of the efforts towards achieving safe motherhood in developing countries in the past decade. It contains papers by different authors, grouped into sections.
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  Too far, too little, too late: a community based case-control study of maternal mortality in rural west Maharashtra, India

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 1998

  This paper looks at results from a case study of 400 villages in Maharashtra, India. The area reported 121 maternal deaths between 1993 and 1995. The study compared the situation of those who died with those who survived similar complications. It was found that those who died took significantly longer to seek care and to make the first health contact after the decision to seek care was taken.

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