Partnerships for women's health [[electronic resource] ] : striving for best practice within the UN Global Compact / / edited by Martina Timmermann and Monika Kruesmann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456368203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tokyo ; ; New York, : United Nations University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 92-808-7154-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (483 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): TimmermannMartina; KruesmannMonika
• Disciplina: 362.1082
• Soggetti: Women - Health and hygiene; Women - Health and hygiene - India; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Improving maternal health in Asia and Africa : challenges and opportunities / Moazzam Ali -- Poverty, health and the human right to the highest attainable standard of health / Paul Hunt and Judith Bueno de Mesquita -- Partnering in support of the right to health : what role for business? / Klaus M. Leisinger -- The challenge of equal financial access to the best available health care : bringing in the private sector / Günter Neubauer and Iris J. Driessle -- The United Nations Global Compact : seeking to embrace diversity / Monika Kruesmann -- Small and medium-sized enterprises : their role in achieving the millennium development goals / Kai Bethke and Manuela Bösendorfer -- The health situation of women in India : policies and programmes / Suneeta Mittal and Arvind Mathur -- India's medical system / Nirmal Kumar Ganguly and Malabika Roy -- Health PPPs in India : stepping stones for improving women's reproductive health care? / Rama V. Baru and Madhurima Nundy -- Pro-poor capacity-building in India's women's health sector / Arabinda Ghosh --; Introduction to the case study : the Women's Health Initiative : a trilateral partnership within the framework of the UN Global Compact / Martina Timmermann -- Karl Storz's WHI goals and expectations / Sybill Storz -- The German PPP programme : a viable way to improve ; women's health in India? / Nicolaus von der Goltz -- GTZ's goals and expectations for the WHI public private partnership from a development cooperation point of view / Diana Kraft and Jörg Hartmann -- The WHI : management perspectives from the private and the public partners in the field / Peter Laser and Anu Chopra -- The WHI : perspectives from private and public medical doctors in endoscopy training centres / A. Kurian Joseph and Alka Kriplani -- The economic logic of the Women's Health Initiative as a business model for poverty alleviation / Christina Gradl -- A PPP for women's health and human rights in India : striving for best practice within the framework of the UN Global Compact / Martina Timmermann and Monika Kruesmann -- PPPs for women's health and human rights beyond India : probing new standards and methodologies / Martina Timmermann and Monika Kruesmann.
• Sommario/riassunto: Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further twenty suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of national and international policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental human right.This book draws together insights and experiences of development practitioners, policy-makers, academic experts and private sector partners to describe the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). A public private partnership based in India, the WHI took a new approach to

2: Drittes und viertes Buch / Propertius Sextus

• Record Nr.: UNICASPUV0465196
• Autore: Propertius, Sextus
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Dublin ; Zürich, : Weidmann, 1966
• ISBN: 3296151524
• Edizione: [3. unver. Auflage]
• Descrizione fisica: 418 p. ; 21 cm
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco; Latino
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Sul retro del front.: rist. invariata della 3. ed.