1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454679003321

Titolo

WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2008 [[electronic resource] ] : the MPOWER package / / World Health Organization

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva, : World Health Organization, 2008

ISBN

1-281-74414-X

9786611744144

92-4-068311-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Collana

Documents for Sale

Disciplina

362.29/66

Soggetti

Tobacco use - Prevention

Smoking - Prevention

Public health

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Feb 20, 2008).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-62).

Sommario/riassunto

This landmark new report presents the first comprehensive worldwide analysis of tobacco use and control efforts. It provides countries with a roadmap to reverse the devastating global tobacco epidemic that could kill up to one billion people by the end of this century. The report outlines the MPOWER package, a set of six key tobacco control measures that reflect and build on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791735803321

Autore

Maguire Moira (Moira J.)

Titolo

Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland [[electronic resource] /] / Moira Maguire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

ISBN

1-84779-759-8

1-78170-260-8

1-84779-325-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

362.70869409415

Soggetti

Children with social disabilities - Government policy - Ireland - History - 20th century

Poor children - Government policy - Ireland - History - 20th century

Christianity and politics - Catholic Church - History - 20th century

Ireland Social conditions 20th century

Ireland Politics and government 1922-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Moira J. Maguire"--Book jacket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Poverty, family dysfunction, and state provision for neglected children -- Cherished equally? "Outdoor" provision for illegitimate children -- Cherished equally? Institutional provision for illegitimate children -- Legislating care and protection : the Carrigan Committee, the age of consent, and adoption -- The abused child? -- Sanctity of child life? Official responses to infanticide -- Desperate act or wilful choice? Infanticide and unwanted children.

Sommario/riassunto

This study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to cherish and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalised and ignored them.