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64:20770 Programa Latinoamericano de
Actividades en Población [PROLAP] (Buenos Aires,
Argentina). Population and Social Change.
[Población y Cambio Social.] Vol. 1, No. 1, 1997. Buenos Aires,
Argentina. In Spa.
This new journal, provided on floppy disk in
Windows-compatible format, contains contributions relating to
population issues in Latin America. This first issue has articles on
the privatization of health services in Latin America and the
Caribbean. The issue includes the following articles: Case studies of
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, Uruguay, and
Venezuela, by Thais Maingón; The family and poverty, by Maria G.
Hita; Population aging and its effects on health services and social
security, by Carlos Welti Chanes and Verónica Montes de Oca; and
The development of population policies in Latin America, by Carmen
Miró.
Correspondence: PROLAP, Instituto de
Investigaciones Sociales UNAM, Circuito Mario de la Cueva s/n, Ciudad
Universitaria, Mexico City 04510, Mexico. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
