CONTEXT - The Bolsa Família Program (PBF) was launched in 2003 with the aim of combating extreme poverty, hunger and social inequality. It is an income transfer program, in which participating families undertake conditional commitments in the areas of health, social assistance and education, with the pu...
Poverty reduction measures are an important approach to
improving health and well-being.(2) A recent survey found
that poverty among older adults was lower in 20 out of 35
OECD countries when compared to the population as a
whole.(3) In Canada, while the prevalence of low income
among older adults has de...
Patterns of marginalisation and exclusion are present all over the world, with
stark and persisting inequalities in access to water and sanitation. Progress
made in the water and sanitation sector does not always benefit those who
are most in need of these services, in particular the poorest, people livi...
The lack of effective use of research evidence in policy-making is a major challenge in most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is need to package research data into effective policy tools that will help policy-makers to make evidence-informed policy regarding infectious diseases of poverty ...
La elaboración de esta publicación se dio como parte de la Iniciativa de Prevención de la Violencia y las Lesiones (VIP) en el marco
de Salud y Seguridad Humana, desarrollado e implementado por un grupo de instituciones, cordinado por la Organización Panamericana de la Salud/Organización Mundial de ...
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-...
This issue brief was prepared in the context of great
local concern about dramatic inequalities in health
between neighbourhoods in Hamilton, which
correspond closely with long-standing neighbourhood
concentrations of poverty. There has been widespread
awareness of the problem of concentrated poverty in
...
A growing evidence base suggests that health insurance in poor areas can improve people?s access to health care. But the poorest in these areas do not seem to benefit much. Health insurance programs, generally, have not helped in reaching out to the poorest or improving their health care use. And whether...
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...
Without evidence-informed action, health-related Millennium Development
Goals as well as those of individual nations are unlikely to be achieved.
Health policies are influenced by a variety of factors – values and beliefs,
stakeholder power, institutional constraints, and donor funding flows, among
oth...
