HEALTH SYSTEM OUTCOMES AND DETERMINANTS AMENABLE TO PUBLIC HEALTH IN INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES: A POOLED, CROSS-SECTIONAL TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

Health system outcomes and determinants amenable to public health in industrialized countries: a pooled, cross-sectional time series analysis

Abstract Background Few studies have tried to assess the combined cross-sectional and temporal contributions of a more comprehensive set of amenable factors to population health outcomes for wealthy countries during the last 30 years of the 20th century.We assessed the overall ecological associations between mortality and factors amenable to public

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An individualism without individuals. A sociological approach to the capitalist symbolism of Chicago and New York skyscrapers

Abstract Starting from Comprehensive or Interpretive Sociology and the Sociology of skyscrapers, this article proposes as basic objectives to verify how the North American economic culture is showed in the symbolism of the skyscrapers of Chicago and New York and to verify the parallelism between the formal evolution of these buildings and the main

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