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Objectives
Assess the relationship between income inequality and HIV incidence, AIDS mortality and COVID-19 mortality.
Design
Multicountry observational study.
Setting
217 countries for HIV/AIDS analysis, 151 countries for COVID-19 analysis.
Participants
Used three samples of national-level data: a sample of all countries with available data (gl...
Desde sus orígenes, la ciencia política estudia las instituciones de gobierno y la forma como se produce y distribuye el poder en una sociedad; esto lo hace de manera comparada. El artículo se propone examinar el vínculo no necesario, pero muy influyente, entre las instituciones políticas y el análisis comparativo. Su consolidación resultó del camb...
Does having a politically aligned mayor affect the amount of funds that municipalities receive to develop solar energy? This article contributes to the literature on energy transitions by considering how political alignment affects the subnational distribution of subsidies for the development of small-scale solar projects in noninterconnected munic...
To what extent does the gender of politicians relate to health outcomes? This article investigates the political economy of health in Argentina (1983–2017), by focusing on the gender of politicians in Argentine provinces and its relationship with subnational political competition. By applying a panel data analysis with province‐fixed effects, the a...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to inquire into the role that sexuality plays in faith-based programs for the prevention and care of problematic drug use.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper conducts 25 semi-structured interviews with institutional staff and another 31 with people undergoing treatment in spiritual and religious drug rehabi...
Coproduction between state and civil society raises many questions: from state capture, to civil society cooptation, and accountability in public goods and services’ delivery. We analyze a collaboration among Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay and two health-care non-governmental organizations that provide prenatal care to women in the Great Chaco re...
Resumen: El presente artículo analiza los cruces entre experiencias terapéuticas y vínculos afectivos en las trayectorias de dos grupos de pacientes con padecimientos crónicos: personas con consumos problemáticos de drogas en tratamiento en dispositivos religiosos de atención terapéutica; y personas con VIH bajo atención clínica y tratamiento antir...
Since the Alma Ata World Health Organization Conference in 1978, countries around the world have adopted institutions that promote the participation of citizens in their public health systems. The main objectives of this article are two-fold. First, we describe the origins and implementation of a national-level civic participatory program that was...
Health is a defining feature of life and its politics vital. Governments and international organizations have promoted community participation in public health since the late 1970s. However, we lack comparative studies of these participatory institutions in public health. This Element proposes a conceptualization of programmatic participation and d...
Since the beginning of the twenty first century, several governments have developed strategies to face problems derived from illegal drugs use, alternative to the punitive approach, vindicating instead a perspective based on public health and human rights. In Argentina, the debate on decriminalization of illegal drugs consumption peaked in 2012, wh...
El presente artículo se interroga: ¿cómo enmarcan los decisores políticos la cuestión de las drogas ilegales? Este artículo recupera un análisis mixto de contenido. En un primer momento se utiliza la estrategia cualitativa de análisis de contenido conocida como Análisis Crítico de Marcos para construir las categorías del concepto. En un segundo mom...
En Argentina, el debate por la despenalización del consumo de drogas ilegales tuvo su pico durante el año 2012, cuando se presentaron varios proyectos de ley que apuntaban a modificar la Ley 23737 sobre estupefacientes. Luego de varios meses de debate en comisión, diputados del oficialista Frente para la Victoria (FPV), del Frente Amplio Progresist...
Religious actors regularly participate in political debates in Latin America. In Argentina, Historical Protestant Churches have been politically involved in several debates since the 1970s. This article compares two processes in which Historical Protestant Churches took part: the defense of Human Rights (1976‐1983) and the support for Same‐Sex Marr...
