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Health policy is a central preoccupation of many, if not all,
developing countries. This innovative book presents a selection of
ten studies illustrating that carefully conducted research can
address common health policy issues.The studies included in this
book exemplify the major gains to patients and citizens that can
accrue from research efforts, stimulating research capacity in
developing countries. Although many of the challenges confronting
health systems are universal, it is often the case that research
results derived from developed countries can be misleading when
applied to low or middle-income settings. The authors also
demonstrate the best examples of successful research on health
policies and systems from diverse countries such as Argentina,
Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Sri
Lanka and Taiwan. This insightful book will be a valuable research
tool for academics, researchers and policymakers in economics and
health. International agencies interested in applied research in
health policy and economics will also find it a stimulating read.
First published in 1981, this book contains a series of
sociological essays translated from Italian into English. It shows
how Italian sociology offers a highly original blend of economic
and sociological analyses in addressing Italy's main social
problems and how its themes and methods could profitably be
integrated into other sociological traditions. The anthology uses
Italy as an illustration in examining social and sociological
themes of crucial concern to the international social scientific
community. In a substantial introduction Diana Pinto argues that
Italy can be seen as a 'metaphor' for wider international debates
about development and modernisation.
Israel has changed. The country was born in Europe's shadow,
haunted by the Holocaust and inspired by the Enlightenment. But for
Israelis today, Europe is hardly relevant, and the country's ties
to the broader West, even to America, are fraying. Where is Israel
heading? How do citizens of an increasingly diverse nation see
themselves globally and historically? In this revealing portrait of
the new Israel, Diana Pinto presents a country simultaneously
moving forward and backward, looking outward and turning in on
itself. In business, Israel is forging new links with the giants of
Asia, and its booming science and technology sectors are helping
define the future for the entire world. But in politics and
religion, Israelis are increasingly self-absorbed, building literal
and metaphorical walls against hostile neighbors and turning to
ancient religious precepts for guidance here and now. Pinto
captures the new moods and mindsets, the anxieties and hopes of
Israelis today in sharply drawn sketches of symbolically charged
settings. She takes us on the roads to Jerusalem, to border control
at Ben Gurion Airport, to a major Israeli conference in Jerusalem,
to a hill overlooking the Dome of the Rock and Temple Mount, to the
heart of Israel's high-tech economy, and to sparkling new malls and
restaurants where people of different identities share nothing more
than a desire to ignore one another. Vivid and passionate but
underpinned by deep analysis, this is a profound and sometimes
unsettling account of a country that is no longer where we might
think.
Este libro presenta los resultados de investigacion de un trabajo
realizado en el corregimiento El Valle (Choco: Colombia) y que tuvo
como principales objetivos evaluar el estado de los mamiferos
medianos y grandes mediante la definicion de su abundancia
relativa, diversidad y composicion. Adicionalmente estudiamos la
relacion, en terminos de los diferentes usos y conocimientos, que
la comunidad local establece con la fauna y en general con los
recursos naturales de la exuberante selva humeda de esta localidad
del Choco colombiano. Implementamos principios etnozoologicos para
involucrar la comunidad a la investigacion y para estudiar sus
conceptos a cerca de la fauna y su uso. Esperamos que los
resultados presentados aqui contribuyan al conocimiento de la
diversidad de los mamiferos del choco, de los procesos que los
afectan y de sus relaciones con la comunidad local de El Valle."
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