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    The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014

    UN, 2014
    Fourteen years ago, the Millennium Declaration articulated a bold vision and established concrete targets for improving the existence of many and for saving the lives of those threatened by disease and hunger. There has been important progress across all goals, with some targets already having been met well ahead of the 2015 deadline.
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    Toxic mercury/mercury amalgam use in dentistry: review and evaluation of curriculum in dental teaching institutions of Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    Keeping in view the toxicity and hazardousness of mercury and its various products, recently, under the United Nation Environmental Program (UNEP), “Minamata Convention on Mercury” has been in-acted by over 140 countries to reduce/phase out mercury use globally. It has been already signed by 94 countries (including Pakistan) in October 10th, 2013 at Kumamoto, Japan.
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    Including people with disabilities in emergency relief efforts

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    More must be done to ensure the needs and rights of people with disabilities are fully recognised in disaster risk reduction and emergency responses.
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    Poverty and social impact analysis of expanded programme on immunization in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    International statistics on childhood health indicators reveal how Pakistan lags behind its future pursuit of a globally competitive labour. These figures become even more disappointing when one observes that Pakistan is amongst the only three countries in the world which has been unable to combat polio despite over 30 years of the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) operation.
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    Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI)

    Research institute which aims to protect and promote the health of the Ethiopian people by addressing priority public Health and Nutrition problems through problem-solving research, public health emer
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    Working for the many: public services fight inequality

    Oxfam, 2014
    Free public services, such as health and education, are one of the strongest weapons in the fight against inequality. They benefit everyone in society, but the poorest most of all. They mitigate the impact of skewed income distribution, and redistribute revenue by putting ‘virtual income’ into the pockets of the poorest women and men.
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    Even it up: time to end extreme inequality

    Oxfam, 2014
    Using new research and examples, this report shows the scale of the problem of extreme economic inequality, and reveals the multiple dangers it poses to people everywhere. It identifies the two powerful driving forces that have led to the rapid rise in inequality in so many countries: market fundamentalism and the capture of politics by elites.
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    End review of FDC’s project to strengthen the Exp anded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in the Zambézia province, Mozambique

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014
    This report is an end review of Fundação para o Desenvolvimento da Comunidade (FDC)’s project to support the implementation of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in the Zambézia province. The purposes of the project were the following: • to improve the system of distribution and conservation of vaccines in health units
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    Systems thinking for health systems strengthening

    World Health Organization, 2009
    This document provides conceptual thinking on health systems, system-level interventions and health systems strengthening. It introduces and explores systems thinking and what it means for the health system as an overall primer to the issues and relevant literature.
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    Global health in foreign policy - and foreign policy in health? Evidence from the BRICS

    Health Policy and Planning, 2014
    Amidst the growing literature on global health, much has been written recently about the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) countries and their involvement and potential impact in global health, particularly in relation to development assistance.

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