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31 August 2000:
The report, "Global Warming and Terrestrial Biodiversity Decline," was released by World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada), the David Suzuki Foundation and the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada (ITC). It is available online at:
http://panda.org/resources/publications/climate/speedkills/
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30 August 2000:
AusAID, the foreign aid agency of Australia provides access to its programs for East Timor. The PDF-file is more than 460KB because it includes a map of East Timor; the file is available on this page:
http://www.ausaid.gov.au/country/pdf/etimor_country_brief.pdf
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29 August 2000:
The Sustainable Cities Network, which is currently based at the University of Hull (UK), announces its 2nd Annual Conference "From Research to Implementation", which will take place from 12-13 September 2000, in Manchester (UK). Further information are available at the web-site of the Network:
http://www.hull.ac.uk/geog/research/html/suscity.html
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28 August 2000:
The World Health Organization is offering access to the "products" of the 5th Global Conference on Health Promotion, which was held early June 2000 in Mexico City. 15 case studies, 6 technical reports on each of the conference's themes, the "Mexico Ministerial Statement on Health Promotion - From Ideas to Action" and the "Framework for the Countrywide Plans of Action" are available at:
http://www.who.int/hpr/conference/products/index.html
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24 August 2000:
Population Action International has published the report "People in the balance - population and natural resources at the turn of the millennium", which includes a number of statistics never been published before. The report is available as a PDF-file (roughly 4.5MB) at:
http://www.populationaction.org/pubs/00pb/pb_download.htm
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23 August 2000:
Linda Mcintyre and Mark Petticrew (University of Glasgow, Medical Research Council, Social & Public Health Sciences Unit) have published "Methods of Health Impact Assessment: a literature review", which is available as a PDF-file (roughly 450KB) at:
http://www.msoc-mrc.gla.ac.uk/Reports/PDFs/Occasional-Papers/OP-002.pdf
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23 August 2000:
First Call for Papers: "Occupational Health and Public Health: Lessons from the Past - Challenges for the Future", Norrköping (Sweden), 6-9 September, 2001. Also: "2nd International Conference on the History of Occupational and Environmental Prevention", and "4th International Conference of the International Network for the History of Public Health". More information available at:
http://www.tema.liu.se/ohph/
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22 August 2000:
The Journal of Health Education Research has published an article on "Health education in Africa: 1975 - 2000" by William R. Brieger, Joshua D. Adeniyi, Kathleen A. Parker and Oladimeji Oladepo. It is available as a PDF-file (roughly 75KB) at:
http://her.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/15/4/383.pdf
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22 August 2000:
Save The Children have published their report "State of the World's Mothers 2000", which is made available online at:
http://www.savethechildren.org/worldsmothers00/contents.html
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22 August 2000:
"Partnerships in health" is one of WHO's major strategic approaches to improve living and working conditions of peoples worldwide. In the April and May edition of the WHO Bulletin, a two part article on this issue has been published by Kent Buse (Yale University) & Gill Walt (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), which is available online as PDF-files at:
Part I at:
http://www.who.int/bulletin/pdf/2000/issue4/bu0240.pdf
Part II at:
http://www.who.int/bulletin/pdf/2000/issue5/bu0241.pdf
Comment: The authors use diplomatic language to present some of their critical remarks. Unfortunately, they do not take an in-depth look into health partnerships, but only into those aiming at the prevention of diseases like malaria etc. But that doesn't make their analysis less relevant. If you can read between the lines, there's a lot to read here.
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20 August 2000:
The People's Health Assembly 2000 has published a position paper on "Health in the Era of Globalisation: From victims to protagonists", which is available as a PDF-file (roughly 550KB) at:
http://www.ldb.org/iphw/pha2000.pdf
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19 August 2000:
UNAIDS has published the report "Migrant populations and HIV/AIDS. The development and implementation of programmes: theory, methodology and practice" which is available online as a PDF-file (443KB) at:
http://www.unaids.org/publications/documents/specific/rufugees/JC397-MigrantPop-E.pdf
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18 August 2000:
The World Bank provides access to a report on "Securing our future in a global economy", written by a team of economists led by David de Ferranti and Guillermo Perry, respectively the Bank's Vice President and Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean. The report is available at:
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/external/lac/lac.nsf/265a7fff47916d7d852567e40 04ce191/df104d125164828385256904005b069a?OpenDocument
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17 August 2000:
LINKS - Oxfam's newsletter on gender and development, produced three time a year, reports on its programmes in over 70 countries worldwide. It's available online at:
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/policy/gender/links.htm
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17 August 2000:
The WHO/PAHO Regional Advisor Division of Health Systems and Services Development (HSP), Hernán Rosenberg and his colleague Martha Peña have published a paper on "Dimensions of Exclusion from Social Protection in Health in Latin America and the Caribbean", which is available as a PDF-file (roughly 96KB) at:
http://www.ldb.org/iphw/rosen.pdf
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17 August 2000:
The Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex, UK) has published a paper on "Gender impacts of health reforms - The current state of policy and implementation" by Hilary Standing, which is available online as a PDF file at:
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/health/alames.pdf
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12 August 2000:
The UN World Food Program has published the "Global Drought Report 2000", which is available as a PDF file (roughly 1.1MB) at:
http://www.wfp.org/newsroom/global_drought_feature/WFP_Assistance_drought_affected.pdf
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9 August 2000:
The World Bank has published the report "Curbing the epidemic. Governments and the economics of tobacco control", which is available online at:
http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/reports.htm
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5 August 2000:
In the forthcoming fourth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Public Health, Davidson R. Gwatkin presents a chapter on "Reducing health inequalities in developing countries". This is a review of current professional thinking about health inequalities in developing countries and how to reduce them. The chapter is available as a PDF-file (roughly 120KB) at:
http://www.ldb.org/iphw/dg.pdf
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4 August 2000:
The Directory of Development Organizations is a global database on organizations active in development projects. The database is accessible according to regions. It is online available at:
http://www.devdir.org/
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3 August 2000:
PAHO's V Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information (CRICS V) will take place in the Palace of the Conventions of Havana, Cuba, from April 25th - 27th 2001.
The main theme is "Knowledge to change: information and knowledge for health equity"
Organized by BIREME - The Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information of the Pan American Health Organization in coordination with the National Center of Information in Medical Sciences of the Ministry of Public Health in Cuba.
More information at website: http://www.bireme.br/crics5/I/homepagei.htm
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3 August 2000:
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published a special issue on "Violence and Human Rights", which is made available online at:
http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v284n5/full/jtw00024.html
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2 August 2000:
WHO has published the report on "Tobacco Company Strategies to Undermine Tobacco Control Activities at the World Health Organization" online as a PDF-file at:
http://www.who.int/home/tobacco/tobacco.pdf
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1 August 2000:
UNDP Administrator Mark Malloch Brown delivered a speech on "Global dialogue on fighting poverty" at the World EXPO in Hannover (Germany). The full text of the speech is made available online at:
http://www.undp.org/dpa/statements/administ/2000/july/25july00.html
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