Sixteen years earlier -in 1978 -WFPHA had developed a position paper representing the views of the international nongovernmental community that was presented at the International Conference on Primary Health Care held in Alma-Ata, of the former Kazakh SSR. That paper expressed the enthusiastic support of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for the goal of ‘Health for All’ by the Year 2000 thro...

Whether through traditional law or modern torture, the body has always been a privileged site on which to demonstrate the evidence of power. But for immigrants, the poor, and, more generally, the dominated—all of whom have to prove their eligibility to certain social rights—it has also become the place that displays the evidence of truth. In France, as immigration control increases, asylum seek...

1. Background and State of the World 1.1 Pre-Second World War until 1972 1.1.1 Air and Water Pollution 1.1.2 Natural Resource and Wildlife Protection 1.1.3 International Governmental Organization Responses 1.2 1972–1992, The Second Generation of Environmental Issues 1.2.1 The Stockholm Conference 1.2.2 Post Stockholm Developments 1.2.3 The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro 1.3 1992–2000 Post-Rio D...

background promoting varicella vaccination for military personnel and conscripts, as one of the susceptible and high-risk groups, is an important governmental approach in every society. the present study aimed to address the seroprevalence of this infection and its immunization level among iranian military conscripts. objectives this study was conducted to determine seroprevalence of varicella ...

Since the early 1990s, the human security movement has sought to expand the concept of security beyond the traditional military defense of national borders to focus on the intra-state security needs of populations at the individual level. Specific initiatives frequently address problems of population health, ethnic conflict, religious extremism, human rights, environmental or natural disasters,...