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Brian G. Dowling

- World Population Day 2010 - 0 views

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United Nations world population

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  • Reliable data makes a difference, and the key is to collect, analyze and disseminate data in a way that drives good decision making. The numbers that emerge from data collection can illuminate important trends. What striking situation does research reveal in your country? What do the numbers tell you about progress toward meeting the MDGs? Are certain groups getting left behind?
  • Brian G. Dowling on 10 Jul 10
     
    This year World Population Day highlights the importance of data for development. The focus is on the 2010 round of the population and housing census, data analysis for development and UNFPA's lead role in population and development.
Brian G. Dowling

World Population Day // Bloggers Unite - 0 views

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UN UNFPA mdgs bloggersunite

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  • Brian G. Dowling on 03 Jan 10
     
    A United Nations event to focus on the UNFPA. Population impacts are 8 of the Millennium Development Goals. This Bloggers Unite event focuses on the work of the UNFPA
Brian G. Dowling

Fashionable Earth » Blog Archive » International Day for the Eradication of P... - 1 views

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Fairtrade poverty mdgs

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  • Brian G. Dowling on 18 Oct 09
     
    The Fashionable Earth Organization is a nonprofit organization created to provide information, resources and programs that promote sustainable living and eco-friendly design. Our mission is to motivate, inspire and inform the consumer population toward being more green and eco-friendly, through our au courant mantra "reduce, reuse, restyle!"
Brian G. Dowling

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - 0 views

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mdgs poverty UN millennium development goals

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  • Brian G. Dowling on 17 Oct 09
     
    The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. The Conference was organized in response to the food crises of the early 1970s that primarily affected the Sahelian countries of Africa. The conference resolved that "an International Fund for Agricultural Development should be established immediately to finance agricultural development projects primarily for food production in the developing countries". One of the most important insights emerging from the conference was that the causes of food insecurity and famine were not so much failures in food production, but structural problems relating to poverty and to the fact that the majority of the developing world's poor populations were concentrated in rural areas.
Brian G. Dowling

UNFPA - Countdown to 2015: Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival - 0 views

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unfpa mdg5 population millennium development goals

shared by Brian G. Dowling on 11 Jul 10 - Cached
  • This report collects and analyses data from the 68 countries that account for at least 95 per cent of maternal and child deaths. It produces country profiles that present coverage data for a range of key health services, including: Contraceptive use. Antenatal care. Skilled attendance at delivery. Postnatal care. Child health. Financial investments in maternal, newborn and child health. Equity of access, health systems and policy.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 11 Jul 10
     
    The report provides a mix of good and bad news. One good news message is that the under-5 child mortality rate has declined by 28 percent, from an estimated 90 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 65 deaths per 1000 in 2008, accounting for a reduction of nearly 4 million child deaths per year.
Brian G. Dowling

U.S. falls behind other developed countries in infant mortality - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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child health global health healthcare mdg mdgs

shared by Brian G. Dowling on 17 Oct 08 - Cached
  • U.S. falls behind other developed countries in infant mortality The United States ranks 29th. The rate has not improved because of an increase in premature births, health officials say.
  • A rise in twins and triplets, driven by the use of infertility treatments, contributed somewhat to the rise in premature and low-birth-weight births, Petrini said. But even accounting for those trends, premature births are increasing, possibly tied to rising rates of obesity, diabetes and hypertension.
  • "We as a nation place less emphasis on primary care and prevention than a lot of these other industrialized democracies do that have lower rates than we do," said Dr. Ann O'Malley of the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Washington-based research group.
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  • Health advocates acknowledge that many of those countries have more homogeneous populations than the United States. But they also have fewer gaps in healthcare coverage and health systems that emphasize primary care."We're great in this country at taking care of really sick people with high-tech interventions," O'Malley said. "But we're not very good at plugging people into preventive care."
  • Brian G. Dowling on 17 Oct 08
     
    Healthcare, even in our own backyard, is often a matter of a new way of thinking and not necessarily a funding problem.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 17 Oct 08
     
    Our potential motivation to get behind global child healthcare seems dubious if we are 29th in the world. The problem does is not a matter of not enough money but how we live our lives.
Benno Hansen

Extinction Countdown: Bugs off: Habitat loss killing Europe's butterflies, beetles and ... - 0 views

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EU Europe biodiversity endangered species

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  • The Red List update finds that 9 percent of Europe's butterflies, 11 percent of its saproxylic beetles and 14 percent of dragonflies are threatened with extinction, at least within the geographic confines of the European Union
  • Butterflies, for instance, play a hugely pivotal role as pollinators in the ecosystems in which they live.
  • 31 percent of Europe's 435 butterfly species suffer declining populations
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  • The habitat loss afflicting these species comes from many factors, including agriculture, climate change, logging and the depletion of freshwater resources.
Brian G. Dowling

UN Chronicle | A magazine for the United Nations. - 0 views

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mdg1 blogging hunger

shared by Brian G. Dowling on 30 Apr 09 - Cached
  • During the past two decades, population growth, improvement in incomes and diversification of diets have steadily increased the demand for food. Prior to 2000, food prices were in decline, largely through record harvests. At the same time, however, public and private investment in agriculture, especially in the production of staple food, decreased, which led to stagnant or declining crop yields in most developing countries.1 Rapid urbanization has led to the conversion of farmland to non-agricultural uses, and low food prices have encouraged farmers to shift to alternative food and non-food crops. Long-term unstable land use has also caused land degradation, soil erosion, nutrient depletion, water scarcity and disruption of biological cycles.
  • Brian G. Dowling on 30 Apr 09
     
    Losing 25,000 to Hunger Every Day. From the UN Chronicles
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