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Human rights impact assessment of trade-related Intellectual property rights: a key strategy in post-2015 efforts to improve access to safe and accessible medicines

In 2013, more than half the world’s poor continue to lack access to essential medicines, despite a multitude of global health diplomacy efforts to increase access to affordable medicines in low and middle-income countries. This failure is exemplified in Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Target 8E which...

Medical R&D convention derailed: implications for the global health system

Potentially game-changing proposals to improve access to medicines have been stalled by the member states of the World Health Organization (WHO). In April 2012, the WHO Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development (CEWG) concluded that one way to address market failures in medical resear...

Personality disorder in convicted Jamaican murderers

West Indian med. j; 62 (5), 2013
OBJECTIVE: To establish the aetiology and historical prevalance of personality disorder in violent homicidal men in Jamaica. METHODS: Examination and analysis of primary data from the psychosocial case study interviews of 36 convicted murderers from the Jamaican Government Barnett Commission of Enquiry i...

El cuidado popular de las personas ancianas en situación de discapacidad y pobreza

Investig. enferm; 15 (2), 2013
El estudio etnográfico interpretativo tuvo como objetivo comprender la trayectoria de cuidado popular de las personas ancianas en situación de discapacidad y pobreza que habitan en cinco barrios de los cerros nororientales ubicados en Bogotá. Con siete colaboradores clave se realizaron observación pa...

Associated factors for the occurrence of unintentional injuries in children from a low-income community in northeastern Brazil

Acta sci., Health sci; 34 (2), 2012
Unintentional injuries reach high levels within the scope of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and have an impact on the quality of life of children and family members. This study depicts the socio-demographic profile of families in a community and identifies the factors associated with unintentional in...

Las agentes comunitarias de salud en el Brasil contemporáneo: la "policía amiga" de las madres pobres

Este artículo pretende mostrar cómo el sistema de salud pública encuentra un medio de regulación sanitaria en las relaciones horizontales entre mujeres pobres de la ciudad de Recife, Pernambuco. Las Agentes Comunitarias de Salud (ACS) llevan adelante el control sanitario de familias pobres y, en part...

Lactancia materna y estado nutricional de niños entre 1 y 3 años de edad
Breastfeeding and nutritional status of children between 1 and 3 years of age

Se estudia la relación entre la lactancia materna y el estado nutricional de 127 niñas y 143 niños (n =270) de 1 a 3 años de edad, mediante un estudio de campo descriptivo y transversal, en ambulatorios de Caracas. Las variables estudiadas fueron: edad, sexo, estrato socioeconómico, tiempo y duraci...

Henry Mayhew: jornalista, investigador social e precursor da pesquisa qualitativa

Henry Mayhew serviu-se de sua profissão, o jornalismo, para registrar o dia a dia da Londres da segunda metade do século XIX de uma forma que até hoje interessa historiadores e cientistas sociais, como obra precursora da pesquisa qualitativa. Este artigo destaca aspectos metodológicos das investigaç...

Tracoma: ainda uma importante causa de cegueira

Rev. bras. oftalmol; 71 (3), 2012
O Tracoma é uma doença milenarmente conhecida e que persiste como causa de cegueira entre nós. As autoras chamam a atenção para os fatores relacionados com a transmissão, apresentam dados históricos e de distribuição da doença no Brasil e no mundo, comentam sobre o agente, os sinais e os sintom...