Global Aspects of Public Health International Organizations

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Information and statistics relating to the field of public health from international organizations. Nov 11

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Statistics in Africa - Africa Development Indicators (ADI) 2010

310.1 million Sub-Saharan Africa's urban population in 2009 56 Percentage of seats held by women in Rwanda's national parliament 1,049 Number of mobile phones per 1000 people in Seychelles 24 Percentage of rural population in Sub-Saharan African with access to improved sanitation 154.7 million Nigeria's population http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/EXTPUBREP/EXTSTATINAFR/0,,contentMDK:22499827~pagePK:64168445~piPK:64168309~theSitePK:824043,00.html
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ESDS International Guideto data resources

This guide is intended to be used as a resource discovery tool for additional internationally available data and information resources. http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/resources/guide.asp
MDGs in Action Quick facts and success stories http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/stats.shtml

UN Millennium Development Goals

stats | Millennium Indicators

The biennial Gender Chart depicts the situation of women and girls in developing regions as reflected in a number of indicators, some of which are also used to monitor the MDGs. It shows that although there has been some progress in a number of the gender dimensions, more needs to be done, in every country and at every level, to achieve the pivotal third MDG and to reduce persisting levels of inequality based on sex, wealth, location, ethnicity and other markers of disadvantage. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Default.aspx

UNICEF

Mother-to-Child Transmission, Paediatric Treatment, Prevention, Children Affected by AIDS http://www.unicef.org/whatwedo/index.html

Health - Statistics

http://www.unicef.org/health/index_statistics.html Economic and social statistics on the countries and territories of the world, with particular reference to children’s well-being, are published annually in the organization’s flagship publication, The State of the World’s Children . The latest statistics related to Health can be found in " Table 3: Health (PDF) ". These same statistics can be found, organized by country, in the ‘ Information by country ' section of this website.
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/index.html Renewed global partnership critical for post-2015 development agenda, says UN panel 28 March 2013, New York A United Nations panel of eminent persons yesterday called for a renewed global partnership that enables a people-centred development agenda beyond 2015, the target date for achieving the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals. FULL ARTICLE UN forum urges young innovators to use science and technology to change the world 27 March 2013, New York

DESA | UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs