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Roedlach, Alexander. "Refugee health and religion: Karenni Catholics in Omaha, United States." Migration Letters 16, no. 3 (July 1, 2019): 389–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v16i3.636.

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This article argues, based on the author’s research and years of engagement with resettled Karenni refugees in Omaha (U.S.) and illustrated by a characteristic case of a health emergency, that refugees’ religious beliefs and networks can increase access to resources needed to boost their resilience, improve their health, and advance their sense of wellbeing, and subsequently encourages agencies working with refugees and other migrants to pay attention to refugees’ religious beliefs and networks and closely collaborate with religious organizations. The author conceptualizes religious values and networks as social capital and calls for qualitative studies to explore the role of religion in improving resilience, health, and wellbeing of refugees and migrants.
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Ko, Chien-Ho, and Hani A. Abdulmajeed. "Improving Construction Safety: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 in the United States." Sustainability 14, no. 12 (June 10, 2022): 7137. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14127137.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, construction accidents in the United States (US) dropped dramatically compared to previous years. This research uses Saunders’ research onion approach to conduct a deep and systematic analysis of pre- and post-COVID-19 data to understand this phenomenon. The proposed research framework examines safety and prevention measures implemented by the US government, using data collected from various US government agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and US Bureau of Labor Statistics. COVID-19’s effects on construction site health and safety were analyzed and ranked in order of efficacy in a hierarchy of control, and findings reveal a number of safety measures that can potentially be implemented to promote improved construction safety even after COVID-19 is over.
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Manton, John, and Martin Gorsky. "Health Planning in 1960s Africa: International Health Organisations and the Post-Colonial State." Medical History 62, no. 4 (September 7, 2018): 425–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2018.41.

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This article explores the programme of national health planning carried out in the 1960s in West and Central Africa by the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Health plans were intended as integral aspects of economic development planning in five newly independent countries: Gabon, Liberia, Mali, Niger and Sierra Leone. We begin by showing that this episode is treated only superficially in the existing WHO historiography, then introduce some relevant critical literature on the history of development planning. Next we outline the context for health planning, noting: the opportunities which independence from colonial control offered to international development agencies; the WHO’s limited capacity in Africa; and its preliminary efforts to avoid imposing Western values or partisan views of health system organisation. Our analysis of the plans themselves suggests they lacked the necessary administrative and statistical capacity properly to gauge local needs, while the absence of significant financial resources meant that they proposed little more than augmentation of existing structures. By the late 1960s optimism gave way to disappointment as it became apparent that implementation had been minimal. We describe the ensuing conflict within WHO over programme evaluation and ongoing expenditure, which exposed differences of opinion between African and American officials over approaches to international health aid. We conclude with a discussion of how the plans set in train longer processes of development planning, and, perhaps less desirably, gave bureaucratic shape to the post-colonial state.
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Perrin, James M. "Children With Special Health Needs: A United States Perspective." Pediatrics 86, no. 6 (December 1, 1990): 1120–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.86.6.1120.

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Several themes run through this consideration of children with special health needs and their families. First, US programs tend to be fragmented in the sense that many geographic areas lack adequate services, and only partial types of family support and treatment services are available despite the relative breadth of family needs. Programs tend to be focused in the sense of separating children based on the specific health condition that they have, despite the similarity of issues for their families that cross diseases. This approach provides focused attention to high quality and high technology medical and surgical care and may lead to better physiologic outcomes, but it lessens attention to the issues that may help the child function effectively in society and grow into a participating young adult. For teenagers, focus on pregnancy prevention may take attention away from other pressing problems, such as substance abuse or sexually transmitted diseases. Hearing screening for school-aged children may take place isolated from intervention programs or from broader preventive health efforts. In Europe, the whole is more than the sum of its parts and the commitment to community-based preventive care assures children and families access to a wide array of preventive efforts. Second, the political will in the US emphasizes freedom of personal choice and individual and family responsibility. This issue of free choice is tempered by restrictions on access to contraceptive education and services for teenagers. But, in general, it limits public support for families with children with special health needs, emphasizing instead the family's responsibility to seek services and provide care, whether for the prevention or management of adolescent pregnancy or for the home and community management of children with complex physical health needs. Programs reflect the belief that families should meet their own needs. In Europe, in distinction, the social contract assumes that families with children with special health needs require additional resources from the community and fosters a broad base of financial support for families. Some conclusions may be drawn about the population of children with special health needs. First, insurance alone will not meet their needs. Other structures (with adequate funding) are needed to insure the development of systems of care, the availability of adequate preventive services, the development and maintenance of regionalized programs where necessary, and the assurance of quality. Second, prevention is relevant for all of these issues of children with special health needs, the prevention of adolescent pregnancy, the prevention of handicap for children with disabilities, or the prevention of dysfunction from a hearing impairment. Much prevention can be carried out at a community level. A broad-based effort reflecting community needs is preferable to fragmented prevention programs for specific issues. Third, a broad notion of children with special health needs is required, rather than a focused campaign on narrow problems. Families' reports of issues in raising children with diverse chronic illnesses and developmental disabilities reflect many similar problems: financing, respite care, physical burdens of care, lack of coordination of services, and limited access to many needed services. Fourth, regulation and regionalization may be necessary to assure access to appropriate services for all children with special health needs. Public planning and regulation are concepts that have been anathema in health policy in the last several years, yet they may be necessary to assure adequate services in all parts of the country.
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Gibson, Kristin E., Allison R. Fortner, Alexa J. Lamm, and Laura A. Warner. "Managing Demand-Side Water Conservation in the United States: An Audience Segmentation Approach." Water 13, no. 21 (October 22, 2021): 2992. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w13212992.

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The availability of fresh water affects public health and living standards around the globe, yet water resources are being rapidly depleted by unsustainable human activities. Strained freshwater resources will perpetuate unless the public is made aware of the severity of water scarcity issues. Audience segmentation, used frequently by environmental communicators to target unreached groups, is a social marketing strategy that segments audiences with shared characteristics to inform the development of effective communication messages. The purpose of this study was to determine characteristics of audience segments based on their level of water conservation behaviors. An online survey of the United States general public captured levels of water conservation behaviors based on how consumers prepare to vote on policy and intent to engage in water conservation behaviors. Cluster analysis resulted in two audience segments: lower water conservation and higher water conservation. Further analysis indicated significant demographic differences between the segments. The lower water segment presented less education, more moderate or conservative political beliefs, and lower family income levels than the higher water segment. Communication messages for the lower water segment should align with these characteristics, including using less scientific verbiage, linking moderate and conservative perspectives with water conservation, and emphasizing economic gain/loss.
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Sanjo, Kazeem Abolarin, Ahmed Abdullahi Chinade, and Ahmad Abdulsamad. "Water Governance: Challenges and Prospects for the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal Six in Nigeria." African Journal of Environmental Sciences and Renewable Energy 14, no. 1 (April 30, 2024): 86–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.62154/fkz0pq18.

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The primary objective of this study is to review all Nigerian National Water and Sanitation Policies implemented since 1993. The aim is to assess their performance, efficiency, and alignment with the targets set forth in UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6). This review provides a contextual understanding of the challenges and opportunities for implementing SDG 6 in Nigeria. We conducted a critical appraisal and qualitative analysis of the 2016 Nigerian National Water Resources Policy, the most recently published policy, in relation to the targets of SDG 6. Our findings indicate that seven out of the eight SDG 6 targets are addressed in the policy. These include safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, pollution reduction, water-use efficiency, trans-boundary cooperation, and protection of water-related ecosystems. However, the policy falls short in involving local communities in water and sanitation management, which is the eighth requirement of SDG 6. Specifically, only 28 states have a dedicated Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA), and few local government areas have Water Supply and Sanitation Hygiene Departments (WASH) as required by SDG 6. Our assessment of the policy's implementation and practices is based on secondary data sources, notably from the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the National Bureau of Statistics. We argue that by developing effective implementation strategies that involve local communities, the 2016 National Water Resources Policy can significantly contribute to achieving sustainable water and sanitation management for all Nigerians by 2030.
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King, Joan M., Chetan Tiwari, Armin R. Mikler, and Martin O’Neill. "Challenges of Designing and Implementing High Consequence Infectious Disease Response." Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 12, no. 5 (March 19, 2018): 563–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2017.128.

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AbstractEbola is a high consequence infectious disease—a disease with the potential to cause outbreaks, epidemics, or pandemics with deadly possibilities, highly infectious, pathogenic, and virulent. Ebola’s first reported cases in the United States in September 2014 led to the development of preparedness capabilities for the mitigation of possible rapid outbreaks, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) providing guidelines to assist public health officials in infectious disease response planning. These guidelines include broad goals for state and local agencies and detailed information concerning the types of resources needed at health care facilities. However, the spatial configuration of populations and existing health care facilities is neglected. An incomplete understanding of the demand landscape may result in an inefficient and inequitable allocation of resources to populations. Hence, this paper examines challenges in implementing CDC’s guidance for Ebola preparedness and mitigation in the context of geospatial allocation of health resources and discusses possible strategies for addressing such challenges. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018;12:563–566)
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Nkyekyer, Esi W., and Andrew L. Dannenberg. "Use and effectiveness of health impact assessment in the energy and natural resources sector in the United States, 2007 – 2016." Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 37, no. 1 (September 21, 2018): 17–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2018.1519221.

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Flewelling, Robert L., Johanna Birckmayer, and Renee Boothroyd. "Developing a Data Resource to Support State Substance Abuse Prevention Planning: Approaches Used in Implementing CSAP's Strategic Prevention Framework." Contemporary Drug Problems 36, no. 3-4 (September 2009): 387–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009145090903600303.

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A number of data collection systems designed to monitor selected substance abuse behaviors and consequences are in place in the United States. Some of these systems provide only national-level data, while others provide data disaggregated by state and in some cases by sub-state units such as counties or communities. Less progress has been made in identifying a key set of epidemiologic indicators across the three major substance categories (i.e., alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs), and assembling them in a manner designed to effectively support substance abuse prevention planning at the state and local levels. A recent federal initiative funded by the U.S. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) seeks to accelerate progress in this area through its Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). The framework is intended to stimulate the prudent use of available data, and the development of additional data resources, for: 1) identifying statewide priorities for substance abuse prevention, 2) informing resource allocation decisions, 3) monitoring state and local trends in substance abuse and related consequences, and 4) evaluating state and local prevention efforts. This article describes the underlying rationale and issues considered in developing the database, some of the challenges and limitations in applying the data to prevention planning processes, and current strategies employed by CSAP to guide states and communities in effectively using the data in their substance abuse prevention planning and monitoring efforts.
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Shipchandler, Taha Z., B. Ryan Nesemeier, Kaitlyn J. Barnes, Leah R. Kelly, Cecelia E. Schmalbach, and Jonathan Y. Ting. "Reverse-Surge Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cautionary Ramp-up for the Otolaryngologist." Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery 163, no. 6 (June 30, 2020): 1137–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0194599820938045.

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As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to evolve through the United States and other countries, differing rates of progression and decline are occurring based on varied population densities. While some health systems are reaching a steady state of new patient cases, others are seeing a leveling off or decline, allowing for restoration of normal practices. This “reverse-surge” planning and implementation process is a colossal undertaking for health systems trying to reacquire patient access and financial stability while preserving necessary resources and maintaining precautions for another potential surge. For the otolaryngologist, reverse-surge planning involves additional workflow adjustments in the outpatient and operating room settings given the abundance of COVID-19 virus in the upper aerodigestive tract. As the reverse-surge best practices are still under development, open communication between otolaryngology colleagues and health system leadership is paramount to optimize efficiency and maintain an adequate measure of safety for patients and our health care teams.
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Service, U. S. Customs, ed. Financial management: Customs' accounting for bugetary resources was inadequate : report to the Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1993.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Misstatements of NASA's statement of budgetary resources : report to the chairman, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Committee on Science, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050 Washington 20013): U.S. General Accounting Office, 2001.

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Hill, Barry T. The Results Act: Observations on the Forest Service's May 1997 draft plan : statement of Barry T. Hill, Associate Director, Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, before the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, Committee on Resources, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1997.

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United States. General Accounting Office. and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health., eds. The Results Act: Observations on the Forest Service's May 1997 draft plan : statement of Barry T. Hill, Associate Director, Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, before the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, Committee on Resources, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1997.

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Hill, Barry T. Forest Service: Information on law enforcement activities : statement of Barry T. Hill, Associate Director, Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, before the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, Committee on Resources, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013): The Office, 1998.

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Guerrero, Peter F. Drinking water research: Better planning needed to link needs and resources : statement of Peter F. Guerrero, Director, Environmental Protection Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, before the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington 20013): The Office, 1999.

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Hill, Barry T. Forest Service: Broad-scale assessments could be better integrated into the forest planning process : statement of Barry T. Hill, associate director, Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, before the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, Committee on Resources, House of Representatives. [Washington, D.C.]: The Office, 2000.

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United States. General Accounting Office. and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health., eds. Forest Service: Broad-scale assessments could be better integrated into the forest planning process : statement of Barry T. Hill, associate director, Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, before the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, Committee on Resources, House of Representatives. [Washington, D.C.]: The Office, 2000.

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Hill, Barry T. Forest Service: Broad-scale assessments could be better integrated into the forest planning process : statement of Barry T. Hill, associate director, Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, before the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, Committee on Resources, House of Representatives. [Washington, D.C.]: The Office, 2000.

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United States. General Accounting Office., ed. Federal land management: Comments on selected provisions of S. 1320--a bill to revise federal land management planning : statement of Barry T. Hill, Associate Director, Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, before the Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate. [Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013)]: The Office, 1999.

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Sood, Bulbul, Vineet Kumar Srivastava, and Nochiketa Mohanty. "Addressing the Urgency and Magnitude of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India by Improving Healthcare Workforce Resilience." In Global Perspectives of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health, Education, and Role of Media, 25–44. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1106-6_2.

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AbstractThe sudden surge in COVID-19 cases during the second wave highlighted India’s lack of preparedness for critical care requirements in terms of infrastructure and human resources. It is the need of the hour to make efforts to build resilient and responsive health systems that are well prepared to handle the current COVID-19 pandemic and similar future threats. The challenges in the healthcare system during the second wave of COVID-19 included overstressed human resources in tertiary facilities, lack of trained healthcare workers, inadequate infrastructure at secondary-level facilities, and a shortage of beds, ventilators, medicines, and other requirements for tertiary-level care. Other challenges were lack of resources/capacity for setting up intensive care units (ICUs), unutilized ICU equipment at secondary-level facilities, and lack of operational planning, coordination, and support. Through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) supported Reaching Impact, Saturation, and Epidemic Control (RISE) Program, Jhpiego is providing technical assistance in 20 states across India to respond to the urgency and magnitude of the second wave of COVID-19. It is identifying areas and modalities of implementation and aligning these to the country’s response to the surge. The project’s focus is on health system preparedness for present and future waves of COVID-19 including activities for strengthening critical care services, medical oxygen management, strengthening molecular testing laboratory, strengthening the health system to respond to future waves, and enabling effective planning and management of critical logistics. This is being done in coordination with the Government of India (GoI) and state governments and by involving both public and private sector/faith-based institutions and non-government organizations (NGOs).
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Burrell, Darrell Norman, Stacey Morin, Sharon L. Burton, Kevin Richardson, and Laura Ann Jones. "Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace Are a Significant Public Health Issue and How Employee Assistance Programs Can Be a Solution." In Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development, 184–200. IGI Global, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-1380-0.ch011.

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Employment is a crucial factor in achieving economic security and self-sufficiency, yet individuals with disabilities often face significant barriers to accessing meaningful and gainful employment opportunities. According to the United States Census Bureau, individuals with disabilities are 65 percent less likely to be employed than those without disabilities. This discrepancy is due, in large part, to limited diversity, equity, inclusion interventions, and knowledge in the workplace on invisible disabilities. This chapter looks to explore the nature of this issue through management consulting intervention with a hospital with significant disability discrimination.
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Dumas, J. Ann. "Gender ICT and Millennium Development Goals." In Information Communication Technologies, 504–11. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-949-6.ch035.

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Gender equality and information and communication technology are important in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in policy, planning, and practice. The 2000 Millennium Declaration of the United Nations (UN) formed an international agreement among member states to work toward the reduction of poverty and its effects by 2015 through eight Millennium Development Goals: 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote gender equality and the empowerment of women 4. Reduce child and maternal mortality 5. Improve maternal health care 6. Combat HIV and AIDS, malaria, and other major diseases 7. Ensure environmental sustainability 8. Develop global partnership for development Progress toward gender equality and the empowerment of women is one goal that is important to achieving the others. Poverty, hunger, illiteracy, environmental threats, HIV and AIDS, and other health threats disproportionately affect the lives of women and their dependent children. Gender-sensitive ICT applications to education, health care, and local economies have helped communities progress toward the MDGs. ICT applications facilitate rural health-care workers’ access to medical expertise through phones and the Internet. Teachers expand learning resources through the Internet and satellite services, providing a greater knowledge base for learners. Small entrepreneurs with ICT access and training move their local business into world markets. ICT diffusion into world communication systems has been pervasive. Even some of the poorest economies in Africa show the fastest cell-phone growth, though Internet access and landline numbers are still low (International Telecommunications Union [ITU], 2003b). ICT access or a lack of it impacts participation, voice, and decision making in local, regional, and international communities. ICTs impact the systems that move or inhibit MDG progress. UN secretary general Kofi Annan explained the role of the MDGs in global affairs: Millennium Development Goals are too important to fail. For the international political system, they are the fulcrum on which development policy is based. For the billion-plus people living in extreme poverty, they represent the means to a productive life. For everyone on Earth, they are a linchpin to the quest for a more secure and peaceful world. (UN, 2005, p. 28) Annan also stressed the critical need for partnerships to facilitate technology training to enable information exchange and analysis (UN, 2005). ICT facilitates sharing lessons of success and failure, and progress evaluation of work in all the MDG target areas. Targets and indicators measuring progress were selected for all the MDGs. Gender equality and women’s empowerment are critical to the achievement of each other goal. Inadequate access to the basic human needs of clean water, food, education, health services, and environmental sustainability and the support of global partnership impacts great numbers of women. Therefore, the targets and indicators for Goal 3 address females in education, employment, and political participation. Progress toward the Goal 3 target to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015, will be measured by the following indicators. • Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary, and tertiary education • Ratio of literate females to males who are 15- to 24-year-olds • Share of women in wage employment in the nonagricultural sector • Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments (World Bank, 2003) Education is positively related to improved maternal and infant health, economic empowerment, and political participation (United Nations Development Program [UNDP], 2004; World Bank, 2003). Education systems in developing countries are beginning to offer or seek ways to provide ICT training as a basic skill and knowledge base. Proactive policy for gender equality in ICT access has not always accompanied the unprecedented ICT growth trend. Many civil-society representatives to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) argue for ICT access to be considered a basic human right (Girard & Ó Soichrú, 2004; UN, 1948). ICT capability is considered a basic skill for education curriculum at tertiary, secondary, and even primary levels in developed regions. In developing regions, ICT access and capability are more limited but are still tightly woven into economic communication systems. ICTs minimize time and geography barriers. Two thirds of the world’s poor and illiterate are women (World Bank, 2003). Infant and maternal health are in chronic crisis for poor women. Where poverty is highest, HIV and AIDS are the largest and fastest growing health threat. Ninety-five percent of people living with HIV and AIDS are in developing countries, partly because of poor dissemination of information and medical treatment. Women are more vulnerable to infection than men. Culturally reinforced sexual practices have led to higher rates of HIV infection for women. Gender equality and the empowerment of women, starting with education, can help fight the spread of HIV, AIDS, and other major diseases. ICT can enhance health education through schools (World Bank). Some ICT developers, practitioners, and distributors have identified ways to incorporate gender inclusiveness into their policies and practice for problem-solving ICT applications toward each MDG target area. Yet ICT research, development, education, training, applications, and businesses remain male-dominated fields, with only the lesser skilled and salaried ICT labor force approaching gender equality. Successful integration of gender equality and ICT development policy has contributed to MDG progress through several projects in the developing regions. Notable examples are the South-African-based SchoolNet Africa and Bangladesh-based Grameen Bank Village Pay Phone. Both projects benefit from international public-private partnerships. These and similar models suggest the value and importance of linking gender equality and empowerment with global partnership for development, particularly in ICT. This article reports on developing efforts to coordinate the achievement of the MDGs with policy, plans, and practice for gender equality beyond the universal educational target, and with the expansion of ICT access and participation for women and men. The article examines the background and trends of MDG 3, to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women, with particular consideration of MDG 8, to develop global partnership for development, in ICT access and participation.
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Reports on the topic "United States. Bureau of Health Planning and Resources Development"

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Innovative Solutions to Human-Wildlife Conflicts: National Wildlife Research Center Accomplishments, 2010. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, April 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2011.7291310.aphis.

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As the research arm of Wildlife Services, a program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), NWRC develops methods and information to address human-wildlife conflicts related to agriculture, human health and safety, property damage, invasive species, and threatened and endangered species. The NWRC is the only Federal research facility in the United States devoted entirely to the development of methods for effective wildlife damage management, and it’s research authority comes from the Animal Damage Control Act of 1931. The NWRC’s research priorities are based on nationwide research needs assessments, congressional directives, APHIS Wildlife Services program needs, and stakeholder input. The Center is committed to helping resolve the ever-expanding and changing issues associated with human-wildlife conflict management and remains well positioned to address new issues through proactive efforts and strategic planning activities. NWRC research falls under four principal areas that reflect APHIS’ commitment to “protecting agricultural and natural resources from agricultural animal and plant health threats, zoonotic diseases, invasive species, and wildlife conflicts and diseases”. In addition to the four main research areas, the NWRC maintains support functions related to animal care, administration, information transfer, archives, quality assurance, facility development, and legislative and public affairs.
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