It is not easy to say what is really empowering in community development work. Any
attempted operational definition will (always) carry a certain bias depending on the …

• Objective.—To examine whether a protein-sparing modified fast diet and a hypocaloric
balanced diet are safe and effective for children in an outpatient weight reduction program …

Although the recently approved Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) explicitly mention
access to water, health and education as universally guaranteed human rights, access to …

The Globalization Knowledge Network (GKN) was formed in 2005 with the purpose of
examining how contemporary globalization was influencing social determinants of health. It …

The peculiar current form of Capitalism rechristened as' free market economics' goes by the
motto of" trade, not aid", no matter how uneven the former may be, and despite the fact that …

Richard Horton and colleagues' manifesto (March 8, p 847) 1 requires nothing less than a
global treaty. The call for a collective manifesto to transform global public health, while …

The purpose of this paper is to critically examine what has come to be known as the Child
Survival Revolution, a programme launched by UNICEF to promote growth monitoring, oral …

Since poverty is an important underlying cause of malnutrition, attacking poverty's
determinants will be the only way to overcome malnutrition as a social problem. Expressing …

Today, development challenges in the Third World remain much the same as they were in
the early 1980s. More people are poor and hungry today and our planet is in greater …

The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Initiative emerged from a World Bank initiative in 2009, and
calls itself a global “movement” that unites governments, civil society, businesses and …