2nd millennium

Social sustainability has gained increased recognition for being key aspects of the sustainability debate in recent years. Previously, the concepts of environmental and economic sustainability were dominant in the social sustainability debate and it wasn’t until the 1990s that social issues of society were added into the subject of sustainability (Drexhage and Murphy, 2010). Social sustainability is defined by “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of…

Introduction The financing and organization of health care systems differ in different countries. This is for the reason that culture, politics, environment, health, and historical factors highly influence the development and the distribution of health services. Haiti is highly hampered by some of the worst health indicators in the world with the government and the health system facing several challenges, which has resulted in the lack of government capacity to address its numerous public…

Nigeria, located in Western Africa, stretches approximately 650 miles from north to south and 700 miles from east to west (Onyenali, 2013). Nigeria is bordered by Niger and Chad to the north, Benin to the west, and Cameroon to the east. The Atlantic Ocean borders the southern limits of Nigeria (Obaje, 2009). According to Akinyemi and Isiugo-Abanihe (2014), with a population of over 160 million, Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa. It is estimated that more than 200 different ethnic…

infectious diseases, like Ebola, are zoonotic origin. From the Ebola epidemic, one can conclude: animal health issues and environmental changes do impact human health. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in New York in 2000 to create the Millennium Development Goals which are goals that would be achieved by the year of 2015. These eight goals related to global health and illness issues. Five out of the eight had relation to global eradication of health problems: (1) Reducing…

a “triple burden” of disease. This includes high incidences of all key communicable diseases and an increasing number of non-communicable diseases. Another issue is that medicine prices remain some of the highest among other Asian countries. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), set within 2015, were created with intent to reduce these issues by enforcing the following goals which involve eradicating extreme hunger to improving maternal health. The MDGs were first enacted…

with the problem of undernourishment and gender inequality. While empirical evidences from the World Bank show that those who live under extreme poverty also face with inadequate healthcare and lack of education. The majority of set goals of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from the United Nations (UN) to be achieved by 2015 accordingly focused on eradicating hunger and poverty and its consequences. Thus, the focus on the precise mechanisms of how corruption worsen poverty and the…

Putting an End to the Extreme Extreme poverty can be defined as average daily consumption of $1.25 or less and mean living on the edge of subsistence < www.data.worldbank.org> . Twenty years ago extreme poverty had been at its highest effecting many all over the globe. Extreme poverty was also at its highest with 47 percent of the world living on less than a dollar twenty-five a day. Since then there has been a steady decline in extreme poverty rates whereas now there is only 22 percent of…

One of the UK’s international development programmes for countries like Kenya is to tackle extreme poverty sustainably. High levels of corruption and impunity by our leaders has constrained Kenya’s potential to develop rapidly and bridge the existing economic gap. In 2014, for instance, Transparency International ranked Kenya at number 145 out of 175 on the Corruption Perception Index. The main areas that need urgent reviewing to steer the economy of my country in the right direction are proper…

So what are MDG goals?. The Millennium Development Goals or also known as the MDG goals are 8 different goals with each goal consisting of 1 target or more, with a clear deadline for enhancing the lives of the millions of people who are still living in poverty. In order to achieve these goals and eliminate the factor of poverty, leaders from 189 different countries came together and signed the historic Millennium declaration at UN (united nations) millennium summit in the year of 2000. During…

This essay will consider the viewpoints of childhood studies and child psychology, and evaluate the contributions that both disciplines can make to policy and practice. In the context of children, policy refers to a set of guidelines about aspects of children’s lives, whilst practice is dictated by policy and in turn, influences children’s lives directly. Although it does consider the influence of external factors, child psychology is a field of studying children that is primarily focused on the…