Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Author : ORC Macro
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Birth control
ISBN :
Democracies
Author : Barbara Wejnert
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1780522398
Book Description
Part of the "Research in Political Sociology" series, this title deals with health problems, challenges and accomplishments in democratic societies. It includes papers addressing health systems, health policies, obstacles to societal healthy behaviors, and/or health conditions that are experienced in democratic societies in the world.
Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
Author : Mary Zirin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2898 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317451961
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.
Global Trends 2040
Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2021-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781646794973
Book Description
"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Transitions in World Population
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Developing countries
ISBN :
Book Description
Chronicles changes in world population in the last century, with a particular focus on the last 50 years. Examines the social and economic factors that affect population change. Also discusses the heightened international concern since the 1950s about rapid population growth, widespread fertility declines, and the new world consensus reached in the 1990s about how best to respond to population trends.
The Struggle for International Consensus on Population and Development
Author : J. Kantner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137096993
Book Description
Tracing the population assistance movement from its tentative beginnings to today, this book employs history to examine the new paradigm created from the Cairo Conference - the 'road map' for the population policy future. The authors take stock of the current state and progress of the paradigm and explore policies and strategies for the future.
The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Author : Katalin Fábián
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2021-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429792298
Book Description
This Handbook is the key reference for contemporary historical and political approaches to gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Leading scholars examine the region’s highly diverse politics, histories, cultures, ethnicities, and religions, and how these structures intersect with gender alongside class, sexuality, coloniality, and racism. Comprising 51 chapters, the Handbook is divided into six thematic parts: Part I Conceptual debates and methodological differences Part II Feminist and women’s movements cooperating and colliding Part III Constructions of gender in different ideologies Part IV Lived experiences of individuals in different regimes Part V The ambiguous postcommunist transitions Part VI Postcommunist policy issues With a focus on defining debates, the collection considers how the shared experiences, especially communism, affect political forces’ organization of gender through a broad variety of topics including feminisms, ideology, violence, independence, regime transition, and public policy. It is a foundational collection that will become invaluable to scholars and students across a range of disciplines including Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Central-Eastern European and Eurasian Studies.
Women & Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia: Southeastern and East Central Europe
Author : Mary Fleming Zirin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
A multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)". This two-volume set deals with the topics ranging from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles.
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 2005
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Publisher :
Page : 1488 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Book Description
HIV/AIDS in Europe
Author : World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9289022841
Book Description
Tells the story of HIV/AIDS in Europe from a broad variety of perspectives: bio-medical, social, cultural, economic and political. The authors are leading experts from across the region and include both the infected and the affected, be they doctors or former drug users, United Nations employees or gay men, public health researchers or community activits. They describe how, from the first documented cases in 1981 to the present era of antiretroviral management, controlling the human inmmunodeficiency virus in Europe has provided elusive.
