Sites for health rights: Local, national, regional and global

Sites for health rights: local, national, regional and global.

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Adaptive Management and Capacity Approaches to Global Climate Change: Local, National, Regional, and Global Political Considerations

Global climate change (GCC), like the global terrorism that chased it from world attention in recent months, eminently threatens life and lifestyles worldwide in highly complex and uncertain ways. Also similarly, any benefits derived from successful actions to address either problem will exhibit considerable public-goods properties: all will benefit to considerable degree and excluding some fro...

Global health rights: Employing human rights to develop and implement the Framework Convention on Global Health.

The Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) represents an important idea for addressing the expanding array of governance challenges in global health. Proponents of the FCGH suggest that it could further the right to health through its incorporation of rights into national laws and policies, using litigation and community empowerment to advance rights claims and prominently establish the r...

Representations of national, regional, and local statistics.

National and global responsibilities for health.

Preventable and treatable injuries and diseases are overwhelming sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent and other impoverished areas of the world. Every year, 8 million children die before they reach the age of 5, more than 300 000 women die in pregnancy or childbirth, and more than 4 million people die of AIDS, malaria, or tuberculosis. By 2005, 80% of deaths from noncommunicable diseases...