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Varghese, Joe; Kutty, V. Raman – Evaluation Review, 2012
Background: The dominant theoretical basis of our public health practice originates from a positivist or reductionist paradigm. It fails to take into account the complexity emerging out of public health's multiple influences originating from biological and social worlds. A deeper understanding of the interaction of elements that characterize the…
Descriptors: Public Health, Governance, Theories, Systems Approach
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Cook, Joseph; Jeuland, Marc; Maskery, Brian; Lauria, Donald; Dipika, Sur; Clemens, John; Whittington, Dale – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2009
Although it is well known that vaccines against many infectious diseases confer positive economic externalities via indirect protection, analysts have typically ignored possible herd protection effects in policy analyses of vaccination programs. Despite a growing literature on the economic theory of vaccine externalities and several innovative…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Mathematical Models, Immunization Programs, Economics
United Nations Children's Fund, New York, NY. – 1995
As a contribution to the World Summit for Social Development, this UNICEF report argues that protecting and investing in children must be seen as integral to economic and social development and discusses the progress made to that end following the 1990 World Summit for Children. Chapter 1 discusses the effect of continued economic and social…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Childrens Rights, Demography