Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher:
ISBN: 9789241580045
Category : Health
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Sixth Report on the World Health Situation: Global analysis
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher:
ISBN: 9789241580045
Category : Health
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Mother and Child Health
Author: Cicely D. WilliamsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195081498
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This study examines in detail the problems of mother and child health on an international scale, with particular emphasis on tropical and developing countries.
Issues in Contemporary International Health
Author: Stacey B. DayPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489937137
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was once asked, "When should the training of a child commence?" "A hundred years before birth" was the reply. Indeed it is this perspective on life through posterity that underlies the maturing field of international health, embracing as it does a respon sibility for and an awareness of the needs of all peoples. The concepts of international health are increasingly revitalizing modern medicine as it attempts to relieve mankind of the burden of disease. Curative medicine, once the paradigm, took a relatively benefi cient approach to treatment. But epidemiological recognition of the fre quency of disease on a global basis-and an appreciation of the vast number of those afflicted-evoked a humiliating backlash of awareness that curative medicine alone neither constrains disease nor permanently advances human health, happiness, or longevity. The growing reliance on truly international health strategies by national and international agencies, including the more definite and extended practice of preven tive medicine, has provided the means to achieve significant gains in the quality of health in years to come. A redeeming feature of contemporary failures in science and medi cine is that-once intelligently studied, analyzed, and evaluated-even these failed efforts may provide real insights that can mold our capacity and determination. So it is that, more than in any bygone age, the past ten years have seen the implementation of a sound and systematic in frastructure for international health undertakings, thus paving the way for improved health for all.
The Statesman's Year-Book 1985-86
Author: J. PaxtonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271146
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1710
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Report of the United States Delegation to the World Health Assembly
Author: United States. Delegation to the World Health AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World Health Assembly
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Statesman's Year-Book 1984-85
Author: J. PaxtonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271138
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1717
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations
Author: Laura WestraPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136566791
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a humankind that spans current and future generations. This book, with a foreword by Roger Brownsword, is the first systematic examination of how the rights of the unborn and future generations are handled in common law and under international legal instruments. It provides comprehensive coverage of the arguments over international legal instruments, key legal cases and examples including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, industrial disasters, clean water provision, diet, HIV/AIDS, environmental racism and climate change. Also covered are international agreements and objectives as diverse as the Kyoto Protocol, the Millennium Development Goals and international trade. The result is the most controversial and thorough examination to date of the subject and the enormous ramifications and challenges it poses to every aspect of international and domestic environmental, human rights, trade and public health law and policy.
Report of the United States Delegation to the Twenty-ninth World Health Assembly, Geneva, Switzerland, May 3 Through 21, 1976
Author: World Health Organization. World Health Assembly, 29th, Geneva, 1976. Delegation from the United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Global Responses to AIDS
Author: Cristiana BastosPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253335906
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
" . . . a coherent and fascinating social analysis of AIDS-related knowledge, examining the social facts of knowledge production and developments interior to communities of science." Medical Humanities Review " . . . a multilayered, composite approach that involves multisited ethnographic research in different spheres of the collective responses to AIDS . . . " —Choice The response to AIDS from various groups in developing knowledge of and about this health crisis is the focus of this revealing work. Rio de Janeiro serves as an observation point for the study of the intersecting worlds of activism, clinical practice, and biomedical research.
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