Investing in strategies to reverse the global incidence of TB / / Clead authors, Jaap Broekmans, Karen Caines, Joan E. Paluzzi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783530803321
• Autore: Broekmans Jaap
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Sterling, Va. : , : Earthscan, , 2005
• ISBN: 1-136-55028-3; 1-280-47539-0; 9786610475391; 1-84977-354-8; 600-00-0097-9; 1-4237-0874-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (169 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CainesKaren; PaluzziJoan E
• Disciplina: 614.542
• Soggetti: Tuberculosis - Prevention - International cooperation; Tuberculosis - Developing countries - Prevention
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Achieving the Millennium Development Goals"--Cover.; "UN Millennium Project.Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Essential Medicines, Working Group on TB 2005."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-151).
• Nota di contenuto: Investing in strategies to reverse the global incidence of TB; Copyright; Foreword; Contents; Task force members; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Millennium Development Goals; Executive summary; Chapter 1 The emergency of tuberculosis; The DOTS strategy to control tuberculosis; The need for modern tools: diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines; The Millennium Development Goals; The UN Millennium Project Working Group on TB and the Stop TB Partnership; Recommendations; Chapter 2 The global tuberculosis epidemic and tuberculosis control; Global achievements; Overview of the tuberculosis epidemicOverview of global tuberculosis control; Tuberculosis and HIV; Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; Summary findings and conclusions; Chapter 3 Poverty, gender, children, and tuberculosis; Poverty fosters tuberculosis; Tuberculosis fosters poverty; Tuberculosis and gender; Tuberculosis and children; ; Chapter 4 Moving forward to achieve the Millennium Development Goals target for tuberculosis; Key intersections with other UN Millennium Project task forces; Solutions to constraints to improved tuberculosis control; Recommendation 1: ensure access for all to high-quality tuberculosis careRecommendation 2: address the TB/HIV emergency now; Recommendation 3: engage all primary care providers in high-quality TB care; Recommendation 4: parter with communities to stop tuberculosis; Recommendation 5: stop the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; Recommendation 6: accelerate the development of critically needed new tools; Recommendation 7: support the Global Plan to Stop TB; Chapter 5 Financing needs; Why more resources are needed; Estimate of general health system requirements; Recommendations; Chapter 6 Meeting the target in UN Millennium Project pilot countriesUN Millennium Project pilot country case studies; Meeting the tuberculosis target in Kenya; Meeting the tuberculosis target in other UN Millennium Project pilot countries: Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, and Ethiopia; Conclusion; Appendix 1 World HEalth Organization recommendations for implementing the DOTS strategy and its adaptation; Appendix 2 Meeting the Millennium Development Goals target in Kenya; Appendix 3 Tuberculosis and poverty in Cambodia; Appendix 4 Tuberculosis and poverty in the Dominican Republic; Appendix 5 Tuberculosis in EthiopiaAppendix 6 Private-public partnerships for new tuberculosis diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines: Aeras, FIND, and the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development; Appendix 7 Summary of background paper on a two-month drug regimen; Appendix 8 Full list of recommendations from the UN Millennium Project Working Group on TB; Notes; References
• Sommario/riassunto: The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015?income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter?while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN Mi

Science & religion : a critical survey / / Holmes Rolston III

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970360303321
• Autore: Rolston Holmes <1932-2025.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : Templeton Foundation Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1-283-43690-6; 9786613436900; 1-59947-406-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (406 p.)
• Disciplina: 501
• Soggetti: Science - Philosophy; Religion and science
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: 1987. With new intro. by the author.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction to the 2006 Edition. Human Uniqueness and Human Responsibility: Science and Religion in a New Millennium -- 1. An Open Future -- 2. Matter, Energy, Information -- 3. Genetics: Past, Present, and Future -- 4. Human Uniqueness: Brain, Mind, Culture -- 5. Mind Knowing Nature: Realism and Social Construction -- 6. Science and Conscience -- 7. Historical and Cruciform Nature: Life Persisting in Perishing -- Chapter 1: Methods in Scientific and Religious Inquiry -- 1. Theories, Creeds, and Experience -- 2. Models, Patterns, Paradigms -- 3. Objectivity and Involvement -- 4. Scientific and Religious Logic -- Chapter 2: Matter: Religion and the Physical Sciences -- 1. Newtonian Mechanism -- 2. Quantum Mechanics and Indeterminacy -- 3. Relativity and Matter-Energy -- 4. Microphysical and Astrophysical Nature -- Chapter 3: Life: Religion and the Biological Sciences -- 1. Biochemistry and the Secret of Life -- 2. Evolution and the Secret of Life -- 3. The Cybernetics of Life -- 4. The Life Struggle -- Chapter 4: Mind: Religion and the Psychological Sciences -- 1. The Possibility of a Human Science -- 2. Religion and Freudian Psychoanalysis -- 3. Religion and Behavioral Science -- 4. Religion and Humanistic Psychologies -- Chapter 5: Culture: Religion and the Social Sciences -- 1. Society and the Individual: Models, Laws, Causes -- 2. Interpretive ; Social Science -- 3. Religion as a Social Projection -- 4. Values in Social Science -- Chapter 6: Nature and History -- 1. Nature after Science -- 2. Hard Naturalism -- 3. Soft Naturalism -- 4. Eastern Perspectives -- 5. The Dimension of History -- 6. Suffering -- Chapter 7: Nature, History, and God -- 1. Nature and Supernature -- 2. Scientific-Existentialist Theism -- 3. Process Theism -- 4. Transscientific Theism.; 5. Insight in Science and Religion: Doing the Truth -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This landmark book, first published in 1987, is now back in print, with anew introduction by its award-winning author. An interdisciplinary approachto the central themes of scientific and religious thought, this book was widelyheralded upon its publication for the richness and depth of its contributionto the science and religion dialogue. notable for its breadth and depth . . . filled with admirably argued andpowerfully presented treatments of critical issues. Joseph Pickle, ColoradoCollege, "Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science" a superb and subtle book. David Foxgrover, "Christian Century" a monumental work . . . T]he book is truly outstanding. John H.Wright, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, "Theological Studies" Rolston s presentation of the methods of science, along with up-to-datesummaries of the main achievements of the various sciences, is commendablefor its clarity and critical acumen. " Choice" According to Holmes Rolston III, there are fundamental questions that sciencealone cannot answer; these questions are the central religious questions.He uses the scientific method of inquiry to distill key issues from science, and then he integrates them in a study that begins with matter and movesthrough life, mind, culture, history, and spirit.Incorporating religious and scientific worldviews, he begins with anexamination of two natural sciences: physics and biology. He then extrapolatesexamples from two human sciences: psychology and sociology. Next, he moves to the storied universe and world history, raising and addressingreligious questions. Never in the histories of science and religion have the opportunities been greater for fertile interaction between these fields, withmutual benefits to both, states Rolston. The re-publication of this bookprovides current researchers and students in the field an invaluable, timelessmethodological resource.The new introduction offers updated insights basedon new scientific research."