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31 January 2001:
The United Kingdom has published its first annual report on sustainable development "Achieving a better quality of life. Review of progress towards a sustainable development." The report is available online at:
http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/ann_rep/index.htm
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26 January 2001:
UNAIDS has published the report "Drugs use and HIV vulnerability. Policy research study in Asia", which is made available as a PDF-file (roughly 605KB) at:
http://www.unaids.org/publications/documents/health/access/drug.pdf
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25 January 2001:
The World Bank has published its "Social Protection Sector Strategy: From Safety Net to Springboard", which is made available online at:
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/HDNet/hddocs.nsf/2d5135ecbf351de6852566a90069b8b6/48df066dd173fda08525681c006e7f06?OpenDocument
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25 January 2001:
The World Health Organization has published a draft of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which is made available online at:
http://tobacco.who.int/en/fctc/
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20 January 2001:
The US Department of Labor released the report "Telework and the new Workplace for the 21st Century", which examines the economics, organizational behavior, and social/cultural implications of telework. The full report is made available at:
http://www.dol.gov/dol/asp/public/telework/main.htm
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13 January 2001:
Sylvia Bales of HelpAge International has published a briefing paper on "The mark of a noble society: Human rights and older people", which is made available online as a PDF-file (roughly 91KB) at:
http://www.helpage.org/publications/Mark%20of%20a%20noble%20society.PDF
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12 January 2001:
George Kent (University of Hawai'i, Department of Political Science) offers an online tutorial on "Nutrition Rights: The Human Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition", which can be accessed at:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kent/tutorial2000/default.htm
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12 January 2001:
The World Health Organization has published a study on "The Tobacco Industries' Successful Efforts To Control Tobacco Policy Making in Switzerland", which is made available as a PDF-file (roughly 1.6MB) at:
http://tobacco.who.int/documents/InquirySwiss.pdf
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10 January 2001:
Daniel R. Faber, associate professor of sociology at Northeastern University, and Eric J. Krieg, assistant professor of sociology at Buffalo State College have published the report "Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts", which is made available online as a PDF-file (roughly 430KB) at:
http://www.nupr.neu.edu/news/0012/environment.pdf
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10 January 2001:
The Institute of Medicine (IoM) of the National Academy of Science (USA) has published a report on "Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin A, Vitamin K, Arsenic, Boron, Chromium, Copper, Iodine, Iron, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Silicon, Vanadium, and Zinc", which is made available online at:
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309072794/html/
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9 January 2001:
The Union of Concerned Scientists (USA) has published a report on "Hogging It: Estimates of Antimicrobial Abuse in Livestock", which is made available at:
http://www.ucsusa.org/food/hogging_exec.html
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9 January 2001:
The Environmental Protection Agency (USA) has published a report on "America's children and the environment", which is made available at:
http://www.epa.gov/children/indicators/
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8 January 2001:
The Commonwealth Foundation (UK) has published a series of country reports on "Citizens and Governance - reports from Africa", which are made available at:
http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/information/infosheet64.html
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6 January 2001:
The Johns Hopkins University has published a report on "Population and the environment. The global challenge", which is made available at:
http://www.jhuccp.org/pr/m15edsum.stm
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4 January 2001:
"The Quality Assurance Project (QAP) was initiated in 1990 for the purpose of improving the quality and efficiency of care by helping lesser developed countries to institutionalize quality assurance (QA). QAP is dedicated to improving the quality of health, population, and nutrition services in over 30 developing countries through technical support to service delivery institutions, Ministries of Health, USAID Missions, and field-based cooperating agencies." It offers a wide range of reports on their web-site (click on "Products" on the left frame and then click on "Case Studies"), all available in PDF-format:
http://www.qaproject.org/index1.html
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I am deeply grateful for the contributions of Mrs. Ana Lucia Ruggiero (WHO-PAHO), who maintains an excellent list-service on "Equality and Health". Though I've never met you in person, here's my deepest bow to your contributions to international health, Ana Lucia.
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