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Instituto Carso de la Salud: a boost for health philanthropy.
George Alleyne,Eduardo Aninat,David de Ferranti,Ciro de Quadros,Lincoln C. Chen,Maria Freire,Rodrigo Guerrero,Ana Langer,Jose M. Rodriguez +8 more
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2008-01-12. It has received 6 citations till now.read more
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Tobacco control, global health policy and development: towards policy coherence in global governance
TL;DR: The analysis developed here suggests that non-communicable disease policies, global health, development and tobacco control would have much to gain from re-examining this presumption of difference, and the concept of policy coherence is used to explore congruence and inconsistencies in objectives, policy, and practice.
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Uneasy money: the Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud, tobacco philanthropy and conflict of interest in global health.
TL;DR: An archive of tobacco industry documents are triangulated with materials from commercial, media, regulatory and NGO sources to examine the financial relations between Slim and the tobacco industry and it is concluded that the reliance of international health agencies upon the commercial sector requires more robust institutional policies to effectively regulate conflicts of interest.
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Influence of local and regional publications in the production of public health research papers in Latin America
TL;DR: With the exception of ALAN, most public health papers published in RMCh and SPM derived from the national collaboration of researchers in the field, and a vertical and individual (per journal/country) model of knowledge communication in public health was identified.
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Group Carso, health philanthropy, and tobacco
TL;DR: Can the authors hear again from Carso board members, particularly George Alleyne from the WHO’s Pan American Health Organization, on how they reconcile their presumed commitment to the spirit and obligations of WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control with their knowledge of how their Institution's benefi ciary earns some of his money?
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Bridging the divide: global lessons from evidence-based health policy in Mexico
TL;DR: In Mexico, a new scheme called Popular Health Insurance (Seguro Popular) has been introduced to gradually protect the 50 million Mexicans, most of them poor, who had until now been excluded from formal social insurance as discussed by the authors.