There is no one way to measure poverty. In literature is usual do this in an objective way, referring generally to lines of poverty. Nevertheless, in recent years an alternative form of analysis has appeared which evaluates ...

D’après la littérature économique le secteur du bâtiment constitue l’un des secteurs principaux pour le développement économique d’un pays. D'une part, il s’agit d’un secteur très important dans la création de richesse ...

This paper aims to analyze the determinants that influenced the probability of access to the contributive health regime in 2006, for Colombian rural migrant population. In order to do this it estimates a Logit model, and ...

In recent years there has been growing interest in composite indicators as an efficient tool of analysis and a method of prioritizing policies. This paper presents a composite index of intermediary determinants of child ...

This paper applies the concept of social capital in organizations. A tool for measuring the cultural aspects of this intangible capital is proposed using a Likert-type scale. A questionnaire was applied to a sample of small ...

Introduction: Bordetella pertussis causes whooping cough or convulsive cough, a contagious and immune-preventable disease. It is one of the 10 leading causes of death among children younger than one year of age, when not ...

Introduction: Dengue viruses transmitted principally by the urban mosquito Aedes aegypti, cause one of the major public health problems confronting tropical cities. Insecticide spraying has been the mainstay of mosquito ...

Does the lack of availability of information represent a bottleneck for research and evaluation in health policy? Objectives This article describes the difficulties encountered in obtaining information about health ...

The purpose of this article is to identify the factors influencing export development of small and mediumenterprises (SMEs) with early internationalization in Colombia. Through the use of the information inclu-ded in the ...

Intermediary determinants are the most immediate mechanisms through which socioeconomic position shapes health inequities. This study examines the effect of community socioeconomic context on different indicators representing ...