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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460440603321

Titolo

To save humanity from hell : what matters most for a healthy future / / edited by Julio Frenk and Steven Hoffman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-022156-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Disciplina

326.1

Soggetti

Climatic changes

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

""45 Safe Food and Medical Products""""46 Climate Change Is Here""; ""47 A Convenient Defense�Defining Affordability""; ""48 A Science of Global Strategy""; ""49 Time for Renewal""; ""50 Reliable, Unbiased, Reproducible Evidence""; ""51 Technology and Health Care in Africa""; ""52 Love Is the Cure""; ""53 Multi-Sectoral Investments for Health""; ""54 Secondary Schooling for Girls""; ""55 Getting Health Delivery Right""; ""56 Closing the Pain Divide""; ""57 Equity in Child Survival""; ""58 Evidence-Informed Health Systems""; ""59 Ignorance about Causes of Death""

""60 Five Pillars of Wisdom""""61 Keeping the Promise to Children""; ""62 Embracing Community Innovation""; ""63 Fairness and Health Equity""; ""64 Medicines Must Be Safer""; ""65 From Hegemony to Partnership""; ""66 Health in the Global Economy""; ""67 Disability and a Healthy Society""; ""68 Fusion Fund for Health""; ""69 Health and Not Health Care""; ""70 Diet for a Healthy Future""; ""71 Global Social Protection in Health""; ""72 Inequities in Adolescent Health""; ""73 Sharing Financial Responsibilities""; ""74 We�re All in This Together""; ""75 No Health without Rights""

""76 No Magic Bullet""

Sommario/riassunto

""The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell."" --Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary-



General 1953-1961 The turn of the 21st century was an objective low point in the history of human health: AIDS was scourging Africa, millions of women died each year in child birth, and billions suffered under malnourishment and poverty. In response, the United Nations launched its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), an ambitious charter that since 2000 has measurably reduced the worldwide burdens of poverty, hunger, and disease. With the MDGs set to expire in 201