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Health centers in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: from implementation to consolidation, 1929-1943
História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2021 The article analyzes the introduction, in the late 1920s, and consolidation, in the 1930s, of a public health model in Rio Grande do Sul state based on the health center model conceived in the United States.
Ana Paula Korndörfer +1 more
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Pest Management Science, EarlyView.The bio‐guided phytochemical study resulted in the new compound 17‐epi‐melianodiol. The compound eliminated 100% of Aedes aegypti larvae at 100 ppm, causing pronounced morphological changes, cuticular damage, and extensive vacuolization. Abstract BACKGROUND In Brazil, Aedes aegypti is the primary vector of arboviruses such as dengue, chikungunya ...
Kethleen Duarte Crespo Soares +8 more
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Shared Journey: The Rockefeller Foundation, Human Capital, and Development in Africa [PDF]
, 2013 Books published in the Rockefeller Foundation Centennial Series provide case studies for people around the world who are working "to promote the well-being of humankind." Three books highlight lessons learned in the fields of agriculture, health, and ...
Kathryn Mathers
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Encyclopedia, 2021 The Mediterranean diet is a food pattern incorporated into a set of lifestyle practices typical of Greece and Southern Italy in the early 1960s, where adult life expectancy was notably high, while rates of diet-related chronic diseases were low.
Angelos K. Sikalidis +2 more
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The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points The original purpose of the 340B program was to exempt Public Health Service Act funded clinics and state and local public hospitals from the inflationary best‐price component of the recently enacted Medicaid drug rebate program. The secondary purpose was to reduce drug prices for these clinics and hospitals in order to preserve and ...
SAYEH NIKPAY +2 more
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THE CHAINMAKER: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Practitioners implementing urban climate initiatives are frequently faced with the intermittent nature of urban projects and the short‐termism of policy experiments. In this conjuncture, understanding how urban transformations are advanced necessitates grasping how small‐scale efforts are carried forward or sustained despite these brief time ...
HANNA HILBRANDT +2 more
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Social Medicine, 2018 Un hombre de negocios estadounidense, ferozmente competitivo y enormemente exitoso vuelve su atención a mitad de su carrera hacia la salud pública mundial. ¿Curiosidad histórica o el actor contemporáneo más poderoso en este campo? Ambas.
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Judith Richter
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State Hygiene School as a Department of Education in the National Institute of Hygiene in Warsaw
Roczniki Panstwowego Zakladu Higieny, 2019 The article presents the history of the establishment of the State School of Hygiene (PSH) in Poland after the First World War. The difficulties faced by the public health service in a country destroyed by war and created after the reunification of the ...
Kazimiera Ćwiek-Ludwicka
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Cuadernos de Investigación Urbanística, 2022 Resumen Frente a la emergencia de lo urbano como condición planetaria y a múltiples crisis en las ciudades, en la última década surgieron iniciativas en Banco Mundial (BM), la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE), ONU ...
Diego Andrés Arcia +1 more
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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