Millennium

The country of Germany is located in Western and Central Europe, neighboring Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, France and Switzerland. Germany has an estimated population of 82,727,000 people; where 13% is under the age of 15 and 27% is over the age of 60. In this large population the life expectancy at birth is 81 years and a health life expectancy at birth is 71 years old (“World Health Organization”, 2015). Within this country there is an estimated 701.6 thousand live births and an estimated…

CSR is commonly known as “corporate social responsibility”. CSR is a form of corporate self-regulation crammed into a business model. CSR basically functions as a self-regulatory mechanism in which a business monitors and ensures its active compliance within certain regulations of code and laws. CSR is important in aiding a companies’ mission as well as a guide for to what the company stands for in face of consumers. All in all, CSR strives to provide a positive impact in all sectors of their…

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…

Achieving universal primary education is the most important millennium development goal. In 2001 when the world powers created the millennium development goals there was an estimated 115 million children who were deprived of the right to education with the majority of them being women. This is a catastrophe, a lack of universal primary education contributes to a lot of the world problems. There are many nations that have worked toward the millennium development goal of achieving universal…

Worldwide Sanitation In this 21st century, access to fundamental sanitation stays as a test to pioneers notwithstanding headway in current science and innovation. It can 't be denied that numerous individuals living in specific locales of the world still practice open defecation. Around 2.5 billion individuals on the planet are still without access to enhanced sanitation and 75% of these individuals are living in provincial range. Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) Report 2012 focuses out that the…

IV. Description of differences in the countries in terms of the solutions to their unique problems Haiti relies heavily on aid from foreign governmental agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Haiti also counts on assistance from non-governmental organizations such as UNICEF. In 2002, the CDC opened an office in Haiti with plans to address the issues concerning HIV/AIDS. Treatment and care for those already…

different issues that cannot be pinpointed to one location. Gender inequalities, lack of education, corruption and lack of political framework all play important roles in maintaining the conditions that breed poverty. External forces such as the Millennium Development Goals will fail unless they attempt to combat all the problems at the same time rather than one after another. Poverty is a complex problem and will probably be solved not by globalization but an even more complex…

I can still remember those words, ‘When you are a clinician, you are saving a life, but when you are a public health personnel, you are saving thousands of life at a time’, delivered by my professor at the orientation class of undergraduate community medicine course. That introductory speech was so motivating that I thought for a while, should I be in the ‘thousands life saver’ group? But that speech alone was not sufficient to grow my interest in public health. Day by day I was feeling the…

sharing resources. The cartoonist’s opinion about the MDGs is that the UN is willing to do anything in order to try to achieve their 8 goals. The man with the shirt that says UN is pointing towards the soccer net on top of the planet that says the Millennium Development Goals. The cartoonist is saying even though the goals may be hard to achieve, hence the distance of the net and African player trying to score, they are willing to try which the number of soccer balls represent. In other words…

Introduction: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. Why should education be a vital consideration in India’s development today? In 2003 the former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela stated, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. Mandela used this as a means of liberating his country to move forward from the previously dysfunctional education system and be able to initiate a new system, which could provide…