IBGE - Indicadores Sociais 2004

IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e EstatísticaReúne indicadores sobre a realidade social brasileira, abrangendo informações sobre aspectos demográficos, educação, trabalho e rendimento, domicílios, famílias e grupos populacionais específicos - crianças, adolescentes e jovens, mulheres e idosos - entre outros aspectos, acompanhados de breves comentários sobre as características observadas nos diferentes estratos geográficos e populacionais do País relativamente aos temas selecionados.

Os indicadores estão apresentados em tabelas e gráficos, para o Brasil, grandes regiões e unidades da federação e, para alguns aspectos, também para regiões metropolitanas. Estes são elaborados, principalmente, a partir dos resultados da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios realizada em 2004, que, neste ano, ampliou sua cobertura para todo o Território Nacional e agrega, pela primeira vez, as informações das áreas rurais de Rondônia, Acre, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará e Amapá.

A publicação apresenta, ainda, um glossário com os termos e conceitos considerados relevantes para a compreensão dos resultados.

O conjunto dessas informações está disponível no CD-ROM.

A elaboração e sistematização desses indicadores atende às recomendações internacionais e contribui para a compreensão das modificações no perfil demográfico, social e econômico da população, possibilitando, assim, o monitoramento de políticas sociais e a disseminação de informações relevantes para toda sociedade brasileira.

IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estat�stica

IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estat�stica: "Pesquisa Mensal de Emprego do IBGE estimou em 1,6 milhão o número de trabalhadores domésticos nas seis principais regiões metropolitanas do País. Entre eles, a predominância de mulheres (94,3%) e de pretos e pardos (61,8%) é evidente, bem como a de pessoas com menos de oito anos de estudo (64%). Esta participação, no entanto, chegava a 71% em 2002. Em média, os trabalhadores domésticos recebem 35% do rendimento médio da população ocupada nas áreas investigadas e somente 34,4% deles têm carteira de trabalho assinada. Apenas 3,4% daqueles trabalhadores moravam no domicílio em que trabalhavam e 81,9% deles trabalhavam em apenas um domicílio. A seguir, os principais destaques deste estudo especial da PME.
A PME classifica como trabalhador doméstico a pessoa que prestava serviço doméstico remunerado em dinheiro ou benefícios, em uma ou mais unidades domiciliares. Em março de 2002 os trabalhadores domésticos representavam 7,7% da população ocupada passando para 8,1% em março de 2006. (1.620 mil pessoas). A jornada dos trabalhadores domésticos (37,6 horas) é inferior à observada para a média da população (41,9 horas)1. As mulheres nesta categoria (1.528 mil pessoas) correspondiam a 17,5% da população ocupada feminina. ."

The TIME 100 | The People Who Shape Our World

The TIME 100 The People Who Shape Our World:
"Artists & Artists & EntertainersThis diverse galaxy of influential stars has won fans and spawned imitators around the globe
J.J. Abrams
George Clooney
Dixie Chicks
Ellen DeGeneres
Nicolas Ghesquiere
Wayne Gould
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Arianna Huffington
Ang Lee
Renzo Piano
Rain
Rachael Ray
Jeff Skoll
Kiki Smith
Will Smith
Zadie Smith
Howard Stern
Meryl Streep
Reese Witherspoon
Rob Pardo
Daddy Yankee
Tyra Banks
Dane Cook
Matt Drudge
Stephen Colbert
Scientists & ThinkersWhether by harnessing the power of the Internet or probing the mysteries of the mind, they have come up with the big ideas of our time
Mike Brown
Kelly Brownell
Nancy Cox
Richard Davidson
Kerry Emanuel
Jim Hansen
Zahi Hawass
Bill James
John Jones
Ma Jun
Jim Yong Kim
Steven Levitt
Jacques Rossouw
Andrew von Eschenbach
Jimmy Wales
Geoffrey West
Leaders & RevolutionariesDictators, democrats, holy men (and a TV host)—these are the people with the clout and power to change our world
Muqtada al-Sadr
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Hugo Chavez
George W. Bush
John McCain
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Pope Benedict
Condoleezza Rice
Wen Jiabao
Ehud Olmert
Pervez Musharraf
John Roberts
Ismail Haniya
Angela Merkel
Jigme Singye Wangchuk
Archbishop Peter Akinola
Junichiro Koizumi
Oprah Winfrey
Bill & Melinda Gates
Heroes & IconsMeet some global icons—actors, politicians, athletes, entertainers and others—who are using their influence to do the right thing
Bono
Michelle Wie
Wynton Marsalis
Angelina Jolie
Bill Clinton & George H.W. Bush
Steve Nash
Orhan Pamuk
Elie Wiesel
Jan Egeland
Joey Cheek
Chen Guangcheng
Ian Fishback
Wafa Sultan
Pernessa Seele
Ralph Lauren
Mukhtaran Bibi
Paul Simon
Al Gore
Katie Couric
Builders & TitansInnovation, grand plans, style and substance—that's what it takes to be influential in the world of business
Vikram Akula
Tom Anderson & Chris DeWolfe
Franz Beckenbauer
The Flickr Founders
Sean Combs
Jamie Dimon
Brian France
Tom Freston
Huang Guangyu
Omid Kordestani
Eddie Lampert
Patricia Russo
Sheikh Mohammed
Anne Mulcahy
Nandan Nilekani
Jim Sinegal
Steve Wynn
The Skype Guys
Dieter Zetsche
More Stories
Editing Condoleezza Rice and Other TalesThis year's TIME 100 is a hefty issue packed with the people who define our times
Meet The Other 100

Instituto Difusor da L�ngua Portuguesa ::.

.:: R E S E N H A S . C O M - Instituto Difusor da L�ngua Portuguesa ::.: "
O Instituto Difusor da Língua Portuguesa oferece-lhe oportunidade de receber, no endereço eletrônico que for indicado, coletâneas de regras gramaticais elaboradas por renomados mestres da nossa língua, instrumento de apoio fundamental para você reorganizar e esmerar a sua maneira de utilizar o seu idioma, resultando num ganho de conhecimentos diversos que, certamente, proporcionarão um meio mais completo de comunicar.
Não importa quanto o assinante das resenhas tenha lido, quais colégios ou universidades tenha freqüentado, ou mesmo que não os tenha freqüentado, para usufruir os ensinamentos de nossos ilustres mestres.
As lições e estudos de atualização gramatical constituem revelação fascinante dos labirintos da língua. Cada coletânea de lições leva em consideração a necessidade do desenvolvimento do conhecimento. Procura despertar suas faculdades latentes, seu potencial e desenvolver talentos pessoais gradativamente, à medida que a pessoa for se aprofundando nas leituras.
As lições gratuitas diárias, agrupadas em aproximadamente duas folhas tamanho ofício, contribuem para o método de aprendizagem conservar-se flexível, para que as novas descobertas, novas pesquisas e informações relevantes possam chegar de forma rápida às mãos de nossos assinantes.
Os estudos são preparados em estágios acessíveis com vários tópicos e na devida ordem. Gradualmente, uma verdade, a solução de uma dúvida, uma comparação, um conhecimento de importância, um fato útil ou uma informação relacionam-se uns aos outros. Eles visam ajudar o subscritor do nosso serviço a tirar o máximo de sua aplicação.
Na verdade, com a prática, poderá usá-los freqüentemente. À proporção que o conhecimento obtido começar a operar sob seu comando, irá sentir o poder recém-adquirido e saberá que está no caminho certo.
As resenhas são enviadas por e-mail, de segunda a sexta-feira, inteiramente grátis. Por serem abertas e por tratarem de matérias de domínio público, é permitido o seu uso por pessoas estranhas ao cadastro. O trabalho virtual poderá ser interrompido a qualquer tempo, bastando somente uma simples ordem do assinante.
Solicite sua inscrição. É de graça. Clique aqui!
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Forum: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development

Forum: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development: "Welcome to the Forum

The Forum: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development seeks to facilitate information exchange and discussion among the growing and diverse group of individuals, institutions, and networks engaged in the field of science and technology for sustainability. The Forum is a collaborative, virtual effort to draw together emerging ideas, relevant activities, key documents and web sites concerning science and technology for sustainability. This content is organized within a Framework that draws from the United Nations 'WEHAB' Framework, the Millennium Development Goals, and the set of Core Questions facing S&T for sustainability. For an authoritative review of the principles underlying S&T for sustainability please read the Key Overview Documents.

The Forum covers evolving discussions over the Framework and challenges for knowledge and action in science and technology for sustainability, documents that chart the field's aims and progress, events of special interest to the community, and programs and institutions that are playing a special role in the evolution of the field. It also includes relevant commentary on posted documents and core questions, and examples of integrated studies of nature-society systems and opportunities, courses, and educational programs that go beyond the study of environment and development separately and deal with the contributions of S&T to sustainable development. The Forum also hosts a Network of people and projects active in the application of science and technology to sustainability. "

ECONOMICS: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure -- Kean 312 (5773): 531 -- Science

ECONOMICS: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure -- Kean 312 (5773): 531 -- Science: "There are two conclusions, neither of them satisfying, one can draw from Paul Ormerod's thesis that the extinction patterns of biological species and business firms not only look similar, but are under-girded by the same 'law of failure.' On the one hand, Ormerod points out in Why Most Things Fail, perhaps both corporations and species plan their evolution. But this amounts to saying that ringworms can tinker with their DNA as easily as managers adjust their capital projections and budgets. The other, and much more likely, conclusion is that corporate evolution is as random as biological evolution. Things aren't quite so hopeless, Ormerod writes, but 'firms are no more capable of planning and securing favourable outcomes with their changes of strategy than sunflowers are capable of deciding to grow feet better to follow the sun.'"

Print Story: UN child study says first five years are key on Yahoo! News

Print Story: UN child study says first five years are key on Yahoo! News
Children's growth is influenced more by environmental factors than genetics up to the age of five, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
The United Nations agency found that, despite differences among individual children, the average potential size of youngsters worldwide lies in a narrow range.
"Children from India, Norway and Brazil all show similar growth patterns when provided healthy growth conditions in early life," the WHO said in issuing its new child growth standards.
"Differences in children's growth to age five are more influenced by nutrition, feeding practices, environment, and healthcare than genetics or ethnicity," it said.
To compile the global study, researchers tracked more than 8,000 children in Brazil, Ghana, India, Norway, Oman, and the United States from birth to age five./.../

Aspirin May Prevent Ototoxicity of Aminoglycosides - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today

Aspirin May Prevent Ototoxicity of Aminoglycosides - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 26 — Hearing loss associated with aminoglycoside antibiotics might be prevented by prophylactic concomitant aspirin, according to researchers here.
The finding may be particularly helpful in developing countries, where inexpensive aminoglycosides are often used for multidrug resistant tuberculosis and other infections, Su-Hua Sha, M.D., of the University of Michigan and colleagues reported in the April 27 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

DCPP - Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

DCPP - Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors: "This book emerges from two separate, but intersecting, strands of work that began in the late 1980s, when the World Bank initiated a review of priorities for the control of specific diseases. The review generated findings about the comparative cost-effectiveness of interventions for most diseases important in developing countries. The purpose of the cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) was to inform decision making within the health sectors of highly resource-constrained countries. This process resulted in the publication of the first edition of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (DCP1).

Also important for informing policy is a consistent, quantitative assessment of the relative magnitudes of diseases, injuries, and their risk factors. DCP1 included an initial assessment of health status for low- and middle-income countries as measured by deaths from specific causes; importantly, the numbers of cause-specific deaths for each age-sex group were constrained by the total number of deaths as estimated by demographers. This consistency constraint led to downward revision of the estimates of deaths from many diseases.

These two strands of work—CEA and burden of disease—were further developed during preparation of the World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health. This report drew on both the CEA work in DCP1 and on a growing academic literature on CEA. In addition, the Wo"

NEJM -- The New Medical "Missionaries" -- Grooming the Next Generation of Global Health Workers

NEJM -- The New Medical "Missionaries" -- Grooming the Next Generation of Global Health Workers
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Historically, so-called missionary medicine was focused on spreading religion as well as compassionate care. Today, the forces behind global health efforts are more secular. Nonetheless, the movement continues to be motivated by a sense of mission — a word with a Latin root, mittere (to send), that suggests an important question: If there is new fervor for global health on the part of medical professionals and international policymakers, shouldn't the "sending" process be more organized — and the vision bigger and bolder?
In a 2005 report, the Institute of Medicine recommended establishing a federally funded U.S. Global Health Service that would send midcareer professionals overseas to help augment local responses to human immunodeficiency virus infection and AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria; provide fellowships and partial repayment of student loans; foster international health care partnerships; and create a global health employment clearinghouse for paid or volunteer positions.4 The establishment of such a federal program would offer some hope of support for young professionals who are ready to dedicate themselves to global health.

CCSD Stats & Facts Canada

CCSD Stats & Facts Home Page: "Stats & Facts, a new on-line service of the Canadian Council on Social Development, provides accessible and accurate statistical information. This site is intended for anyone with an interest in timely data on social and economic indicators. We anticipate that Stats & Facts will be frequently used by policy analysts, community planners, activists, journalists, and students.

Users will find informative facts sheets organized by topic areas covering demographics, families, and education. Plans are underway to add more fact sheets on the labour market, health, and economic security in the coming months. All of these fact sheets will be regularly updated to reflect the most current data available.

For more details about any of the definitions used in these fact sheets, please see Terms & Definitions from Statistics Canada.

Please note that Stats & Facts replaces our Free Statistics section. All historical poverty and income data, as well as welfare rates, will be archived and available in the economic security section of Stats & Facts."

Obesity a Prime Agent in the Diabetes Epidemic

Obesity a Prime Agent in the Diabetes Epidemic - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today: "Explain to obese or overweight patients that obesity is a major risk factor for developing diabetes.
For these patients, suggest that weight loss and an exercise program may help stave off diabetes, and for frank diabetics such actions may help curb the disease's health risks.
Review
ATLANTA, April 21 - From 1997 to 2003, the incidence of diagnosed diabetes increased 41%, with obesity a major player, CDC researchers here reported.
During this period, the incidence of diagnosed diabetes among U.S. adults, ages 18 to 79, increased annually from 4.9 to 6.9 per 1,000 population (P<0.01 for linear trend), amounting to a 41% increase over seven years, the researchers reported in the May issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. /.../"

Cinema e fotoenografia na cidade dos condenados

Studium 23: "Cinema e fotoetnografia na CIDADE DOS CONDENADOS [1]

Texto: Professores Maria de Nazareth Agra HassenLuiz Eduardo Robinson AchuttiFotoetnografia: Luiz Eduardo Robinson Achutti
Universos e fronteiras deste e de "outros mundos"
Há sessenta anos foi criado próximo da cidade de Porto Alegre o Hospital Colônia de Itapuã com o objetivo de isolar doentes acometidos pela hanseníase, na maioria pessoas oriundas do meio rural, muitas delas descendentes de imigrantes alemães no Rio Grande do Sul.
Universos e fronteiras deste e de 'outros mundos'Há sessenta anos foi criado próximo da cidade de Porto Alegre o Hospital Colônia de Itapuã com o objetivo de isolar doentes acometidos pela hanseníase, na maioria pessoas oriundas do meio rural, muitas delas descendentes de imigrantes alemães no Rio Grande do Sul."/.../

THE BRAIN FROM TOP TO BOTTOM

THE BRAIN FROM TOP TO BOTTOM
Cocaine occludes the molecular pumps that clear dopamine and other neurotransmitters from brain synapses. As a result, the molecular signals jolt neurons again and again, producing euphoria. Students can learn more about how drugs tamper with synapses, how memory works, and other topics at The Brain From Top to Bottom, created by neuroscientist Bruno Dubuc of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The primer's eight chapters, which come in three levels of difficulty, explore not only the molecular and cellular mechanisms behind brain functions but also their psychological and social ramifications. In the pleasure and pain section, for example, you can step back for an overview of philosophers' thinking about these two sensory extremes.
www.thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/index_d.html

Discover Life

Discover Life
Discover Life provides free on-line tools to identify species, share ways to teach and study nature's wonders, report findings, build maps, process images, and contribute to and learn from an encyclopedia of life that now contains 277,715 species. The Polistes Foundation and its scientific partners plan to add high-quality identification guides, maps, images, and webpages for a million species by 2012. Please join us and help provide everyone with the information we need to reduce disease, increase food production, stop destructive species, protect endangered ones, and enjoy rather than struggle with nature. --John Pickering

Global Monitoring Report 2006

Global Monitoring Report 2006: "The third annual Global Monitoring Report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), subtitled Strengthening Mutual Accountability � Aid, Trade and Governance was published on April 20, 2006, by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
It highlights economic growth, better quality aid, and trade reforms, as well as governance as essential elements to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
'Less than 10 years remain until 2015, the target year for the MDGs. We are making progress in many countries, and this shows that development efforts can deliver results. But with just a decade to achieve the goals, it�s urgent for both developing countries and the donor community to improve governance to ensure we get the results we seek. This report proposes a framework that defines governance, and proposes tools for monitoring it.'
� Paul Wolfowitz, President, The World Bank"

Quero Mais Brasil

Quero Mais Brasil: "
(Recomendado por Mário Maranhão)
O Quero Mais Brasil é um movimento que convidará o restante da sociedade brasileira para se dar as mãos e fazer com que o eterno país do futuro se torne o Brasil do presente. É um movimento sem nenhuma ligação partidária. Ele nasce da iniciativa de desejos brasileiros de fazer algo mais do que simplesmente votar de dois em dois anos e já conta com o apoio de uma parcela significativa da sociedade, representada por mais de 170 das mais variadas associações de classe.Querer Mais Brasil é participar deste movimento ao lado de vários brasileiros, empresários, artistas, líderes, trabalhadores, pessoas que vão usar a cidadania para construir uma cidade, um estado e um país melhor. É descruzar os braços. Querer Mais Brasil é querer transparência nos gastos públicos de todos os governos. Não é ser contra nenhum partido ou político. É ser a favor do Brasil, dos Estados e de todos os municípios.Querer Mais Brasil é exigir que todos os governos, das cidades, dos estados e do país, não gastem mais do que arrecadam. Sem dívida crescente, sem juros excessivos, sem gastos mal feitos. É exigir menos gasto na máquina pública e mais serviços sociais e investimentos. Querer Mais Brasil é exigir a mesma eficiência dos orgãos públicos que se exige da iniciativa privada: incompetentes fora, profissionais competentes e premiados e corrupção eliminada. Querer Mais Brasil é não ficar calado. É descruzar os braços e construir juntos. Chega do país do futuro. Quero Mais Brasil agora.
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Linked to Three Genes

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Linked to Three Genes - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today: "ATLANTA, April 20 - Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has been linked to five mutations in three genes that are related to the body's ability to handle stress.
'For the first time ever, we have documented that people with CFS have (variations in) certain genes that are related to those parts of brain activity that mediate the stress response,' said William Reeves, M.D., director of CFS research at the CDC here.
Also, people with the syndrome have differences in genetic activity levels that affect the way they respond to stress accumulated over a lifetime, Dr. Reeves said in a media telebriefing to announce 14 research papers arising from a CDC study in Wichita, Kan. /.../"

We must take tough action against corruption

DFID News We must take tough action against corruption: "By Hilary Benn
Originally published in FT.com April 20 2006
Corruption, like temptation, exists everywhere, but in poor countries it can kill. Money meant for drugs for a sick child, or to build a hospital, can be siphoned off into private bank accounts or to build a luxury house. At the World Bank Spring Meeting on Saturday 22nd April, I will be calling for a new international framework for tough, effective and consistent action to tackle this corruption, not least because as development and finance ministers we have a shared responsibility to ensure that the extra resources from debt cancellation and from increased aid, genuinely go to help the poor./.../"

Heart Failure

Return to: Evidence-Based Medical Therapy and Device Therapy for Heart Failure: Points of Emphasis in the New 2005 AHA/ACC Guidelines

Introduction
Although Medscape Cardiology readers scarcely need to be reminded of the sobering statistics around the global problem of heart failure (HF), a brief review of the latest numbers bears repeating. Following a very brief synopsis of the principal points of the updated American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines for the management of HF, this review will examine recent trial evidence for some of the underutilized, guideline-recommended therapies.

World Bank Strategy Targets Corruption

World Bank Strategy Targets Corruption:
"World Bank Strategy Targets Corruption
Plan Aims to Clean Up Bribe-Taking Countries
By Paul Blustein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 12, 2006; D05

Stepping up a fight against corruption that has become his signature issue, World Bank President Paul D. Wolfowitz yesterday presented a 'long-term strategy' for using the bank's money and expertise to help developing countries clean their governments of bribe-taking and other dishonest practices.
Wolfowitz said he will begin deploying anti-corruption teams in many World Bank country offices, requiring the bank staffers working on each 'high-risk' country to develop anti-corruption plans, and increasing investments in key areas such as judicial reform, among other measures.
His plans were outlined in a speech delivered in Jakarta, Indonesia, where Wolfowitz spent three years as U.S. ambassador in the 1980s. 'One of the biggest threats to development in many countries -- including this one -- is corruption,' he said."/.../

New Parkinson's Disease Treatment Guidelines Issued

AAN: New Parkinson's Disease Treatment Guidelines Issued - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today: "Doctors should explain to patients that new guidelines found no 'neuroprotective' therapies to have any value.
Note that the guidelines leave to the art of medicine decisions such as the order of the selection of drugs for treatment.
Doctors should screen all Parkinson's patients for depression.
Review
SAN DIEGO, April 7 - New guidelines for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, issued by the American Academy of Neurology, are more proscriptive than prescriptive.
'We did not describe in what order useful drugs for the treatment of Parkinson's disease should be used,' said William Weiner, M.D., of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. 'That still remains part of the art of medicine.' "

Mitos y Medicina

criticamedicina:
Dr.Alejandro Wajner [ahwajner@gmail.com]
"Desenmascarar los mitos discursivos de la Medicina hegemónica
Desenmascarar los mitos discursivos Médicos
' El texto crea su contexto'
El discurso médico crea el contexto por fuera de los pacientes y luego se los aplica.
Supone cuerpos vacíos, despojados de significados particulares e históricos, de cultura y lazos sociales, los llena de piezas y variables biológicas sin significado personal ni propias del individuo.
Habla y actúa sobre cuerpos designificados: reconstruidos por un texto matemático y con imágenes que suplantan las emociones, afectos, fantasías y deseos del ser. "

Stem Cells explained and explored

Life Sciences at Michigan: "STEM CELLS - EXPLAINED AND EXPLORED
The technical, ethical and emotional dialogue over stem cell research can be confusing and even contradictory at times. Yet the science is racing forward at the University of Michigan and around the world. Learning more about all kinds of stem cell research will help everyone make better choices."

El Niño

El Niño Theme Page: distributed information on El Niño
El Niño and La Niña periodically disrupt wind patterns and ocean temperatures, bringing deluges to some areas of the world and drought to others. Whether you're after background information on the climate phenomena or the latest data on warm-water volume in the tropical Pacific Ocean, zoom over to the El Niño Theme Page from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
El Niño occurs when warm water that normally pools in the western Pacific sloshes toward South America. By contrast, cool water predominates along the equator during La Niña. The Basics section explains these climatic extremes with primers, animations, and other resources. Visitors will also find the latest forecast--we're currently in a La Niña episode that scientists predict will continue for the next 3 to 6 months. Researchers can trawl numerous data sets from NOAA and other sources, which record variables such as atmospheric water vapor and sea level.
www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home.html

WHO | The world health report 2006 - working together for health

WHO The world health report 2006 - working together for health: "The world health report 2006 - working together for health

The World Health Report 2006 - Working together for health contains an expert assessment of the current crisis in the global health workforce and ambitious proposals to tackle it over the next ten years, starting immediately. The report reveals an estimated shortage of almost 4.3 million doctors, midwives, nurses and support workers worldwide. The shortage is most severe in the poorest countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where health workers are most needed. Focusing on all stages of the health workers' career lifespan from entry to health training, to job recruitment through to retirement, the report lays out a ten-year action plan in which countries can build their health workforces, with the support of global partners."

Anticorruption drive: Bark or bite? - Business - International Herald Tribune

Anticorruption drive: Bark or bite? - Business - International Herald Tribune: "Anticorruption drive: Bark or bite?
By Donald Greenlees International Herald Tribune

THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2006


HONG KONG A decade ago, James Wolfensohn, then the World Bank president, lifted a veil that had long cloaked discussion within the bank on the topic of corruption, describing it as a 'cancer' on the global economy.

Before he spoke in October 1996, arguing that it was time to 'put teeth' into the anticorruption fight, the World Bank had forbidden the very use of the word 'corruption' in official documents.

At the time, many bank insiders felt like uncorking Champagne to celebrate the end of what they had called the 'prohibition era' - a period when the sensitivities of client and member governments made the subject of corruption virtually taboo.

But the reality of fighting corruption in the years since has been a disillusioning experience in most of the developing world, including Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. The energy invested in the anticorruption drive has failed to reduce average levels of graft in government or business in the world's poorest regions, according to World Bank officials and other analysts.

The evidence from around the world, said Daniel Kaufman, the director of global programs at the World Bank Institute in Washington, is sobering.

'There has been no global improvement on average,' Kaufman said. 'The average quality of governance worldwide has remained stagnant.'

Since 1996, the World Bank has been compiling data on six important indicators of quality of governance in 209 countries, including their performance in controlling corruption, strengthening the rule of law and improving accountabilit"

Halt global diabetes epidemic: DM

Halt global diabetes epidemic: "Posted on Thu, Apr. 06, 2006

WORLD HEALTH DAY
Halt global diabetes epidemic

By SONIA SHAH
pmproj@progressive.org

Diabetes is often considered a peculiarly Western disease, but this chronic disease is worth taking note of it tomorrow on World Health Day
Diabetes -- and the fast-food culture that provokes it -- is not just an American problem. It is quickly spreading to the rest of the world, too.
We think of McDonald's as an American restaurant, but of the five new McDonald's that open around the world every day, four are located beyond our borders.
Coca-Cola is the quintessential American drink, but that company has been buying up water licenses in poor countries -- many still bereft of safe drinking water -- where they sell soda for less than the price of a glass of clean water. In Africa, the No. 1 employer is not a mining company or an agricultural firm, but Coca-Cola.
Our health suffers when we rely on fast foods and sugary drinks to sustain ourselves. But in places where malnutrition and poverty are rampant, the ramifications are even more profound.
Fast food everywhere
In Western countries, the transition from hardscrabble malnutrition to today's drive-through, fast-food cornucopia occurred over centuries, with the happy result that our societies were able to control infectious diseases spread by hunger and poverty before facing the maladies of diets rich in calories, including diabetes, obesity and heart disease."

Report: Insects contribute at least $57 billion to U.S. economy

Report: Insects contribute at least $57 billion to U.S. economy
Insects, through their work of pollination, pest control and other services, contribute at the very least $57 billion annually to the U.S. economy, a study has found.

Social Determinants of Health

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Pacto Contra a Corrupção. Retificação a pedido.

De: crwa@transparencia.org.br [mailto:crwa@transparencia.org.br]
Enviada em: domingo, 2 de abril de 2006 09:31
Para: aloyzio.achutti@terra.com.br
Cc: crwa@transparencia.org.br
Assunto: Pacto contra a corrupção

Prezado senhor:

Serve a presente para retificar informação constante no blog "Amicor preserve", relativa à participação da Transparência Brasil na iniciativa do Pacto Empresarial pela Integridade e Contra a Corrupção.

Na verdade, a Transparência Brasil foi convidada a subscrever e apoiar o Pacto, mas após discussão seu Conselho Deliberativo considerou que a iniciativa foge à linha de ação da entidade. A resolução do Conselho está publicada em nosso sítio de Internet (www.transparencia.org.br), na seção "Quem somos", depois "Resumos de atas".

Agradeceria, assim, que a informação fosse retificada no blog em questão.

Atenciosamente,

Claudio Weber Abramo
Diretor executivo