La politica Nacional de salud, busca apoyar sus decisiones en la investigacion como generadora de conocimiento cientifico - tecnico para la formulacion de propuestas e intervenciones que apoyen el desarrollo de la salud, especialmente las relacionadas al area de los sistemas y servicios de salud, incluye: criterios basicos para la investigacion en sistemas y servicios de salud (ISSS), objetivos, lineamientos politicos para la ISSS, areas prioritarias de investigacion, estrategias de accion.

Establecen los lineamientos politicos para el desarrollo de la investigacion en el pais, asi como las estrategias de accion para facilitar su implementacion.

This overview of health financing tools, policies and trends--with a particular focus on challenges facing developing countries--provides the basis for effective policy-making. Analyzing the current global environment, the book discusses health financing goals in the context of both the underlying health, demographic, social, economic, political and demographic analytics as well as the institutional realities faced by developing countries, and assesses policy options in the context of global evidence, the international aid architecture, cross-sectoral interactions, and countries' macroeconomic frameworks and overall development plans.

This edition aims to provide policy makers and regulators with a compact and practical review of the various approaches that have been developed and tested to date in an effort to contain the overall costs of pharmaceutical services and drug treatment.

Existential semiotics involves an a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. These essays define this new philosophical field.

Analyzing a key cause of infectious morbidity in immunosuppressed and immunocompromised patients, this source spans the most recent strategies to improve and expedite the diagnosis, identification, and treatment of fungal infections. With authoritative contributions from experienced clinicians in the field, this reference tracks developments in ima

The main focus of this volume is on urbanity as a discursive way of human life in the city. Discourse is specified here in terms of semiotic codes and processes that link city dwellers as communicating selves into interpersonal and intersubjective collectivities when they create and interpret similar meanings embodied in material bearers. Accordingly, the unfolding of the semiotic web is understood, firstly, as detecting and evaluating the growth and manifestation of the sphere of meaning-bearers or a sequence of meaning-bearing events, and secondly, as identifying and explaining the constituents and aspects of discourse in the light of signs and/or sign-processes that aggregate individual participants of communication into discursive linkages on a lower level and discursive communities - on a higher level of social grouping. Some contributions deal with the discursive properties of human individuals in urban environments, and some others are devoted either to the meta-discourses on the city or discourses in the city.