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Coming to Terms with World Health

The League of Nations Health Organisation 1921-1946

By: Iris Borowy

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Coming to Terms with World Health

The League of Nations Health Organisation 1921-1946

By: Iris Borowy

The League of Nations Health Organisation was the first international health organisation with a broad mandate and global responsibilities. It acted as a technical agency of the League of Nations, an institution designed to safeguard a new world order during the tense interwar period. The work of the Health Organisation had distinct political implications, although ostensibly it was concerned «merely» with health. Until 1946, it addressed a broad spectrum of issues, including public health data, various diseases, biological standardization and the reform of national health systems. The economic depression spurred its focus on social medicine, where it sought to identify minimum standards for living conditions, notably nutrition and housing, defined as essential for healthy lives. Attracting a group of innovative thinkers, the organization laid the groundwork for all following international health work, effective until today.

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3631586876

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Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future

A History of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission)

By: Iris Borowy

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Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future

A History of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission)

By: Iris Borowy

The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment. Written by an international group of politicians, civil servants and experts on the environment and development, the Brundtland Report changed sustainable development from a physical notion to one based on social, economic and environmental issues. This book positions the Brundtland Commission as a key event within a longer series of international reactions to pressing problems of global poverty and environmental degradation. It shows that its report, "Our Common Future", published in 1987, covered much more than its definition of sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" for which it became best known. It also addressed a long list of issues which remain unresolved today. The book explores how the work of the Commission juggled contradictory expectations and world views, which existed within the Commission and beyond, and drew on the concept of sustainable development as a way to reconcile profound differences. The result was both an immense success and disappointment. Coining an irresistibly simple definition enabled the Brundtland Commission to place sustainability firmly on the international agenda. This definition gained acceptability for a potentially divisive concept, but it also diverted attention from underlying demands for fundamental political and social changes. Meanwhile, the central message of the Commission – the need to make inconvenient sustainability considerations a part of global politics as much as of everyday life – has been side-lined. The book thus assesses to what extent the Brundtland Commission represented an immense step forward or a missed opportunity.

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Coming to Terms with World Health

The League of Nations Health Organisation 1921-1946

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Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future

A History of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission)

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A History of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission)

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Facing Illness in Troubled Times

Health in Europe in the Interwar Years, 1918-1939

By: Iris Borowy,Wolf D. Gruner

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Facing Illness in Troubled Times

Health in Europe in the Interwar Years, 1918-1939

By: Iris Borowy,Wolf D. Gruner

Health was a central theme in interwar Europe. The trauma of the First World War, political turmoil and economic crisis placed special demands on public health. Governments engaged to an unprecedented degree in social policy, establishing new sanitary institutions and structures. New scientific doctrines helped spread new ideas. In the process, health gained many functions: It spurred nation-building. It served to integrate and exclude people, define borders and forge identities. Health played a crucial role in the evolving political and social order of interwar Europe. But how healthy were the people really? How did their health respond to policies, and how did policies respond to their health? In this study fourteen scholars address key aspects of the issue.

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0820465429

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Coming to Terms with World Health

Coming to Terms with World Health

Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future

Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future

Coming to Terms with World Health

Coming to Terms with World Health

Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future

Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future

Facing Illness in Troubled Times

Facing Illness in Troubled Times

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