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    Policy summary 6: promoting health, preventing disease: is there an economic case?

    Merkur, Sherry; Sassi, Franco; McDaid, David.
    A core question for policy-makers will be the extent to which investments in preventive actions that address some of the social determinants of health represent an effi cient option to help promote and protect population health. Can they reduce the level of ill health in the population? How strong is the...
    Educação em Saúde, Comportamentos Relacionados com a Saúde, Política de Saúde, Promoção da Saúde, Fatores Socioeconômicos
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    Zero child hunger: breaking the cycle of malnutrition

    Haddad, Lawrence.
    Is there enough evidence to show that increased household income and a better diet can improve children?s nutritional status? Drawing from a recent systematic review (Masset et.al.2011) of agricultural interventions aimed at improving the nutritional status of children, the key findings are: 1-Nutrition-...
    Transtornos da Nutrição Infantil/prevenção & controle, Agricultura/organização & administração, Promoção da Saúde/métodos, Desnutrição, Estado Nutricional, Pobreza/economia
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    Water to save lives

    Waddington, Hugh; White, Howard; Chapoy, Christelle.
    Contaminated water is bad for health, resulting in thousands of premature deaths around the world each year. There is strong evidence that household water treatment has the biggest impact and is the most costeffective method in reducing risks of diarrhoea. But the picture is not as clear when it comes to...
    Diarreia/epidemiologia, Água Potável/análise, Promoção da Saúde/organização & administração, Purificação da Água/métodos, Poluição da Água/prevenção & controle
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    Evidence brief: strengthening primary healthcare in Canada

    Lavis, J. N; Boyko, J.
    Primary healthcare includes first-contact services delivered by a range of providers. Most commonly in Canada these providers are general practitioners and family physicians. However, increasingly these providers can also include nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and telephone advice lines, among others....
    Atenção Primária à Saúde/organização & administração, Atenção Primária à Saúde/métodos, Saúde Mental, Promoção da Saúde/organização & administração
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    Almost Random: evaluating a large-scale randomized nutrition program in the presence of crossover

    Linnemayr, S; Alderman, H.
    Large-scale randomized interventions have the potential to uncover the causal effect of programs applying to a large population, thereby improving on the insights gained from currently dominant smaller randomized studies. However, the external validity gained through larger interventions typically implie...
    Promoção da Saúde, Avaliação do Impacto na Saúde/métodos, Senegal, Estado Nutricional
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    The Programme for Advancement through Health and Education (PATH)

    Jamaica. Ministry of Labour and Social Security.
    PATH is a nation-wide programme providing two types of grants. The first is a health grant, which is contingent on certain members of the household attending public health clinics at regularly scheduled intervals. The second is the education grant, which is contingent on children aged 6-17 attending scho...
    Determinantes Sociais da Saúde, Promoção da Saúde, Financiamento Governamental/economia, Programas e Políticas de Nutrição e Alimentação, Pobreza/prevenção & controle, Jamaica, Estratégias de Saúde Nacionais
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