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To Save Humanity

What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

By: Julio Frenk,Steven Hoffman

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To Save Humanity

What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

By: Julio Frenk,Steven Hoffman

The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell." --Dag Hammarskjöld, United Nations Secretary-General 1953-1961 The turn of the 21st century was an objective low point in the history of human health: AIDS was scourging Africa, millions of women died each year in child birth, and billions suffered under malnourishment and poverty. In response, the United Nations launched its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), an ambitious charter that since 2000 has measurably reduced the worldwide burdens of poverty, hunger, and disease. With the MDGs set to expire in 2015, continued progress on these fronts is anything but certain. In addition to the persisting threats of the 20th century, globalization has sped the development of new threats--pandemics, climate change, chronic disease--that now threaten rich and poor countries equally. "To Save Humanity" is a collection of short, honest essays on what single issue matters most for the future of global health. Authored by the world's leading voices from science, politics, and social advocacy, this collection is both a primer on the major issues of our time and a potential blueprint for post-2015 health and development. This unparalleled collection will provide illuminating and thought-provoking reading for anyone invested in our collective future and well-being.

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Oxford University Press

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0190221550

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Acceso a Los Servicios de Salud en El Marco Del TLC

By: Julio Arboleda-Flórez,Pan American Health Organization

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Acceso a Los Servicios de Salud en El Marco Del TLC

By: Julio Arboleda-Flórez,Pan American Health Organization

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) may not imply changes in the immigration laws of its signatories, but it will make it easier for people to move freely among Canada, Mexico, and the United States. One of the concerns arising from NAFTA involves meeting the health care needs of people who move from one member country to another. The publication analyzes the legal implications of the access to health care by individuals from NAFTA countries who are temporarily working or residing in another member country. The book compares the health systems of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, focusing on their principles and objectives, legal framework, institutional structure, operational modalities, and outcomes. Detailing the similarities and differences among the systems of these three countries, this publication attempts to anticipate the treaty's potential benefit or detriment to access to health care services and examines the expectations and concerns that free trade generates in this respect.

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Pan American Health Org

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9275073767

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9789275073766

Yankee Don't Go Home!

Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950

By: Julio Moreno

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Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950

By: Julio Moreno

In the aftermath of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Mexican and U.S. political leaders, business executives, and ordinary citizens shaped modern Mexico by making industrial capitalism the key to upward mobility into the middle class, material prosperity, and a new form of democracy--consumer democracy. Julio Moreno describes how Mexico's industrial capitalism between 1920 and 1950 shaped the country's national identity, contributed to Mexico's emergence as a modern nation-state, and transformed U.S.-Mexican relations. According to Moreno, government programs and incentives were central to legitimizing the postrevolutionary government as well as encouraging commercial growth. Moreover, Mexican nationalism and revolutionary rhetoric gave Mexicans the leverage to set the terms for U.S. businesses and diplomats anxious to court Mexico in the midst of the dual crises of the Great Depression and World War II. Diplomats like Nelson Rockefeller and corporations like Sears Roebuck achieved success by embracing Mexican culture in their marketing and diplomatic pitches, while those who disregarded Mexican traditions were slow to earn profits. Moreno also reveals how the rapid growth of industrial capitalism, urban economic displacement, and unease caused by World War II and its aftermath unleashed feelings of spiritual and moral decay among Mexicans that led to an antimodernist backlash by the end of the 1940s.

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UNC Press Books

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0807862088

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9780807862087

To Save Humanity

What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

By: Julio Frenk,Steven Hoffman

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What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

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The Why of Things

By: Julio Donoso,Dana Holahan

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The Why of Things

By: Julio Donoso,Dana Holahan

The outstanding feature of Julio Donoso's long life is its dazzling variety. From five-star hotels and high society venues, meeting the likes of Ava Gardner and Marlene Dietrich, he moves to left-wing dives in the poorer parts of Santiago, Chile's capital city, to pursue his 'quest'. From luxurious seaside residences, he funds Allende's election campaign and talks poetry to Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda. Next he's on a plane to Cuba to learn about Communism in action - from the bearded man himself, Fidel Castro and his compadres Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos. Come Chile's military coup in 1973, which booted Augusto Pinochet into power, the author's leftist credentials make him public enemy number one, and his frantic efforts to evade capture form the exciting core of his wide-ranging autobiography. Exile follows, with a change of lives and a change of wives... but nothing deters Donoso! In Switzerland, he rediscovers his businessman's hat and does mega-deals with the Eastern Bloc countries, makes a fortune, and marries an Englishwoman. Full circle? Yes, but wealth has not spoiled him. As he revisits past happiness and earth-shaking events, he carries with him the pain of his country's poor: he has been there too. Herein lies his humanity, and here is the superbly written record of a man who investigates 'the why of things' - in his own special way.

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Athena PressPub Company

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1844018083

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To Save Humanity

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Acceso a Los Servicios de Salud en El Marco Del TLC

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Yankee Don't Go Home!

Yankee Don't Go Home!

To Save Humanity

To Save Humanity

The Why of Things

The Why of Things

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