Browse by tag "population"

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Gap Minder

This year, 2007, Hans Rosling’s TED-speech focused on making the seemingly impossible possible.

 

The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop. Asian countries, as colorful bubbles, float across the grid – toward better national health and wealth.

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Type Website
Subject Global health issues   Global economy and health   Population growth   Technology   
Tags TED   Gap Minder   statistics   data   population   health   wealth   trends   analysis   prediction   graphs   
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Refugee health care

Wide range of lecture slide sets entitled: Refugee and disaster definitions; causes of conflict and population displacement; Information and surveillance systems for refugee populations; Hemorrhagic fever outbreak investigation; Health needs of refugees; Assessing health needs; Establishing health services; Control of communicable diseases; The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Mental illness amoung trauma-affected populations, Health and human rights principles for refugee health; and From disasters to development.

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Author John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Type Presentation
Subject Population growth   
Tags refugee   resource poor settings   population   
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The urban social environment

A detailed and illustrated slide set examinging the features and impacts of social connectedness in families, neighbourhoods, NGOs and churches. It also examines urban governance and transneighbourhood and transregional associations.

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Author Brieger, W
Type Presentation
Subject Urbanisation   
Tags population   urbanisation   demography   gender   family   social change   Poverty   
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