Latin America: New World, Third World

The WHO ILAR COPCORD Latin America: consistent with the world and setting a new perspective.

T he Community-Oriented Program for Control of Rheumatic Diseases (COPCORD) was launched through the concerted effort of the International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) and World Health Organization (WHO) in the early 1980s to acquire data on musculoskeletal (MSK) pain and disability. Its focus was on the developing world. COPCORD was designed a lowcost low-infrastructure model...

America and World

The success of American agriculture is a crucial factor in supplying the world's food needs. The United States exports more grain than Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa together manage to produce, and it holds about half of the world's total grain reserves. Indeed, each year American farms account for roughly half the world's exports of grain and soybeans. Opinion polls show that the America...

A Third World Perspective

The Third World War?

The new world of retirement income security in America.

We have entered a new world of retirement income security in America, with older individuals more exposed to market risk and more vulnerable to financial insecurity than prior generations. This reflects an evolution that has altered the historical vision of a financially secure retirement supported by Social Security, a defined-benefit pension plan, and individual savings. Today, 2 of these 3 r...