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Battling Chronic Disease Worldwide
Salud Mesoamerica. Posted on 12/29/2010
Fuente: Health Affairs
Health Affairs. December 2010 - Volume 29, Number 12

Measuring Subjective Expectations in Developing Countries
Salud Mesoamerica. Posted on 11/11/2010
Fuente: Adeline D, RAND; Xavier Giné; David McKenzie
The majority of economic decisions are forward looking and thus involve expectations of future outcomes. Understanding the expectations that individuals have is thus of crucial importance to designing and evaluating policies in health

Mexican Billionaire Finds Challenge in Ambitious Health Campaign
Salud Mesoamerica. Posted on 09/24/2010
Fuente: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
(Philanthropy) A fledgling international health project backed by the world's richest man, the Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim...

Carlos Slim finds global health success is harder than business
Salud Mesoamerica. Posted on 09/23/2010
Fuente: The Seattle Times
(Seattle Time) The Business of Giving. Exploring philanthropy, non-profits and socially motivated business, from the Gates Foundation to your donation. A fresh look at the economy of good intentions.

UN launches $40 billion health drive
Salud Mesoamerica. Posted on 09/22/2010
Fuente: Reuters
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will announce on Wednesday a $40 billion launch to a plan to save the lives of 16 million women and children over the next five years

Who, and what, causes health inequities?
Salud Mesoamerica. Posted on 09/15/2010
Fuente: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
Political, historical, intellectual and economic context of a Latin American/North American discussion about societal determinants of between-country and within-country health inequities

(The Lancet) The MDG: a cross-sectoral analysis and principles for goal setting after 2015
Salud Mesoamerica. Posted on 09/13/2010
Fuente: The Lancet
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent an unprecedented global consensus about measures to reduce poverty. The eight goals address targets to

The MDG and the Road to 2015: Building on Progress and Responding to Crisis
Salud Mesoamerica. Posted on 09/12/2010
Fuente: Issuu
This book in PDF draws on two of the World Bank's flagship publications, the Global Monitoring Report and the World Development Indicators.

Observations on Incentives to Improve Population Health
Salud Mesoamerica. Posted on 09/05/2010
Fuente: Preventing Chronic Disease
The pace of progress in population health can be influenced by the incentives in play and the metrics that trigger them. The MATCH (Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health) articles in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease explore the use of incentives to…