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Global Development: Committing to Universal Progress in Health and Welfare
Pages 122-125

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From page 122...
... As international networks continue to expand and intensify, global development will become a pressing issue for people everywhere. 1985 Bophuthatswana postage A mother and daughter participate in an stamp promoting infant immunization HIV-prevention training in Mozambique against polio (iStock®)
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From page 123...
... to have transformative effects. The United Nations created the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1983 to devise a plan for economic and global development Freely accessible online database for the Model List of The International Conference on Primary Health Care in Alma-Ata, while protecting the planet's environment.
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From page 124...
... a 15-year blueprint to expand hope and opportunity for people around the world. The eight goals, ranging from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS to providing universal primary education to ensuring environmental sustainability, spurred unprecedented global efforts to meet the needs of the world's poorest people.
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From page 125...
... Development Goals What Matters Most for a Healthy Future contains In 2015, the member states of the United Nations 96 brief essays authored by prominent leaders 2015 adopted the Sustainable Development Goals in science, politics, academia, medicine, and (SDGs) as a call to action to end poverty, protect advocacy regarding the world's most pressing The Burden of Surgical Disease the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace global health issues.
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