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The Vitamin A Story

Lifting the Shadow of Death

By: Richard D. Semba

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The Vitamin A Story

Lifting the Shadow of Death

By: Richard D. Semba

Intriguing reading for specialists and the interested public alike This book shows how vitamin A deficiency -- before the vitamin was known to scientists -- affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today's international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. Although exhaustively researched and documented, this book is written for intellectually curious lay readers as well as for specialists. Public health professionals, nutritionists, and historians of science and medicine have much to learn from this book about the cultural and scientific origins of their disciplines. Likewise, readers interested in military and cultural history will learn about the interaction of health, society, science, and politics. The author's presentation of vitamin A deficiency is likely to become a classic case study of health disparities in the past as well as the present.

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Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers

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3318021881

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Towards a Better Global Economy

Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the Twenty-first Century

By: Franklin Allen,Jere Richard Behrman,Nancy Birdsall,Shahrokh Fardoust,Dani Rodrik,Andrew D. Steer,Arvind Subramanian

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Towards a Better Global Economy

Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the Twenty-first Century

By: Franklin Allen,Jere Richard Behrman,Nancy Birdsall,Shahrokh Fardoust,Dani Rodrik,Andrew D. Steer,Arvind Subramanian

Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades. But the slowdown in global economic growth and significant increases in income inequality in many developed and developing countries raise serious concerns about the continuation of this trend into the 21st century. The time has come to seriously think about how improvements in official global governance, coupled with and reinforced by rising activism of 'global citizens' can lead to welfare-enhancing and more equitable results for global citizens through better national and international policies. This book examines the factors that are most likely to facilitate the process of beneficial economic growth in low-, middle-, and high-income countries. It examines past, present, and future economic growth; demographic changes; the hyperglobalization of trade; the effect of finance on growth; climate change and resource depletion; and the sense of global citizenship and the need for global governance in order to draw longer-term implications, identify policy options for improving the lives of average citizens around the world, and make the case for the need to confront new challenges with truly global policy responses. The book documents how demographic changes, convergence, and competition are likely to bring about massive shifts in the sectoral and geographical composition of global output and employment, as the center of gravity of the global economy moves toward Asia and emerging economies elsewhere. It shows that the legacies of the 2008-09 crisis-high unemployment levels, massive excess capacities, and high debt levels-are likely to reduce the standard of living of millions of people in many countries over a long period of adjustment and that fluctuations in international trade, financial markets, and commodity prices, as well as the tendency of institutions at both the national and international level to favor the interests of the better-off and more powerful pose substantial risks for citizens of all countries. The chapters and their policy implications are intended to stimulate public interest and facilitate the exchange of ideas and policy dialogue.

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0198723458

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9780198723455

Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology

By: Richard David Semba

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Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology

By: Richard David Semba

The Handbook of Nutrition in Ophthalmology is the first general text on nutrition and eye health created for physicians, nutritionists, and researchers. The author provides important links between the epidemic of obesity and implications it has for eye disease and blindness. The volume also includes chapters addressing nutritional aspects of preventing eye disease in diabetes mellitus and other optical neuropathies, making this a unique book.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1592599796

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The Vitamin A Story

The Vitamin A Story

Towards a Better Global Economy

Towards a Better Global Economy

Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology

Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology

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