Author: Kenya. Central Bureau of StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kenya
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Strategic Plan for National Statistical System, 2003/4-2007/8
Author: Kenya. Central Bureau of StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kenya
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
National Statistical System
Author: Sierra Leone. Statistics Sierra LeonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sierra Leone
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
At the Crossroads
Author: Florence Ebam EttaPublisher: IDRC
ISBN: 1552502198
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Raises questions about information and communication technologies (ICT) and their implementation in four East African countries, with particular focus on Kenya. Covers the respective roles of the public and private sectors, the applications of ICT in government, education, and in various economic sectors. Concludes with recommendations for responsible policy making.
The Anthropological Demography of Health
Author: Véronique PetitPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192607316
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The anthropological demography of health, as a field of interdisciplinary population research, has grown from the 1990s, extending to a remarkable range of key human and policy issues, including: genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability and chronic diseases; new reproductive technologies; and population ageing. By observing group formation and change over time, tracking people's networks, and observing variance between what people say and do, anthropological demography goes beyond the characteristically top-down formal methodologies of most mainstream socio-economic demography and population health. This path-breaking volume charts and integrates the growing body of research that combines ethnography with quantitative models and methods in the field of population health. It offers a clear agenda based on important conceptual and methodological advances, and often working in close collaboration with medical and historical research. Approaches to population that are grounded in sustained ethnographic and historical research provide more than substantive knowledge of how cultural and social formations interact with health. They enable understanding of how local institutions and experience of vital events come to be translated into the demographic and health measures on which survey and clinical programmes rely. This, in turn, makes possible critical evaluation of the empirical adequacy of such translation, reflection on what happens when these models and measures become standardised evaluations of health statuses, and what this implies for governance. The combination of anthropological, demographic, historical, and biological research has gone beyond the initial demographic prioritisation of fertility regulation, to take on an expanded range of key health policy issues, and locate them in the context of the inequalities that so frequently give rise to major health differentials. The Anthropological Demography of Health offers a clear agenda for the application and extension of combined anthropological and demographic thinking in population health, and will provide a point of reference for the field.
The Reference Regional Strategic Framework for Statistical Capacity Building in Africa
Author: Higher Education, Policy, and the Global Competition Phenomenon
Author: V. RustPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230106137
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This book inquires about the processes through which different higher education systems have determined national higher education policies related to competitiveness, as well as the strategies they have adopted to enhance their global competitiveness.
Author: The Emerging Data Revolution in Africa
Author: Ben KiregyeraPublisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN: 1920689575
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The book presents a nuanced narrative about statistical development in Africa since around the time of independence when emerging states needed statistics mainly to support their planning processes. It highlights challenges faced then, some of which have persisted, including institutional, organizational and technical challenges. These challenges manifest themselves in countries with different degrees of severity and are quite severe in post-conflict countries. Key statistical programmes to support statistical development in Africa in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s are presented
National Prevention Strategy: America’s Plan for Better Health and Wellness
Author: Regina M. BenjaminPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437987621
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
The Affordable Care Act, landmark health legislation passed in 2010, called for the development of the National Prevention Strategy to realize the benefits of prevention for all Americans¿ health. This Strategy builds on the law¿s efforts to lower health care costs, improve the quality of care, and provide coverage options for the uninsured. Contents: Nat. Leadership; Partners in Prevention; Healthy and Safe Community Environ.; Clinical and Community Preventive Services; Elimination of Health Disparities; Priorities: Tobacco Free Living; Preventing Drug Abuse and Excessive Alcohol Use; Healthy Eating; Active Living; Injury and Violence Free Living; Reproductive and Sexual Health; Mental and Emotional Well-being. Illus. A print on demand report.
The Measure of America
Author: Sarah Burd-SharpsPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023151090X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Measure of America is the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. It introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state and congressional district, as well as by gender, race, and ethnicity. The Index rankings of the 50 states and 436 congressional districts reveal huge disparities in the health, education, and living standards of different groups. Clear, precise, objective, and authoritative, this report will become the basis for all serious discussions concerning the realization of a fair, just, and globally competitive American society.