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    The evidence base for interventions to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in Low and Middle-Income countries

    Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001
    Reviews the scale of maternal and neonatal mortality and serious morbidity in low and middle income countries, and the factors that account for the huge discrepancies in the rates of these poor outcomes compared with high income countries.
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    Private sector response to HIV/AIDS in Swaziland: impact, response, vulnerability and barriers to implementation of workplace HIV/AIDS prevention programmes

    Global Development Network, 2001
    This report presents a detailed analysis of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the private sector, by focusing on costs imposed on the private sector as a result of increased illness and deaths from AIDS. The report also discusses the knowledge, attitudes and practices of businesses in the area of HIV/AIDS at the workplace.
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    Decentralising of health policy and planning using Participatory Rural Appraisal : Indian example

    Global Development Network, 2001
    This paper focuses on the importance of decentralisation in health care provision and how community participation could become a way forward to provide health care to all, using participatory rural appraisal.The paper outlines the present system of health care in India and the current challenges it faces.
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    Economic growth and the demographic transition

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2001
    After tracing the history of theories of the effects of population growth, this report reviews evidence on the relevance of changes in age structure for economic growth.
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    Globalisation and health: a framework for analysis and action

    Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001
    While there is a growing literature on the importance of globalisation for health, there is no consensus either on the pathways and mechanisms by which globalisation affects the health of populations or on the appropriate policy responses.
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    Poverty and health

    Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001
    This paper provides an overview of the research on two aspects of equity, poverty and health - inequalities in health that are to the disadvantage of the poor, and the impoverishment and income redistribution associated with out-of-pocket payments for health care.
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    Macroeconomics and health: investing in health for economic development

    Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001
    Scaling up the resources spent in the health sector by poor countries and donors could help to avert up to 8 million deaths by 2010. This is the key message of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health whose members have produced this report, published by the World Health Organization.
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    Developing and validating a methodology to examine the impact of HIV/AIDS on older caregivers

    Ageing and Life Course (WHO), 2001
    Project set in four countries in Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania. It aims to identify barriers that prevent older people from providing adequate and fulfilling care to their children dying from HIV/AIDS and, subsequently, to their orphaned grandchildren.
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    Current Awareness in Aging Report (CAAR)

    Center for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin, 2002
    Weekly email report that helps researchers keep up to date with the latest developments in the field of ageing issues.Available as emailed bulletin, with back issues on web site.
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    Parental bereavement: heterogeneous impacts of AIDS in Thailand

    Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Persons, 2001
    Over the coming decades in Thailand, ageing parents whose adult children sicken with AIDS will bear burdens of care giving and loss. Using demographic microsimulation, this paper shows that the new, lower projections of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic still imply that 8% of Thais over the age of 50 in 1995 will lose one or more children to AIDS before their own deaths.

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