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The world is in a state of flux occasioned by profound natural forces, social, economic, and political changes and rapid scientific and technological advancement. The nations of the world, of which Nigeria is a part, are also becoming more interconnected and interdependent. To avoid possible "future shock" nations must respond quickly, preferably and proactively to these rapid changes. Regular ...

BackgroundWhile the importance of promoting equity to achieve health is now recognised, the health gap continues to increase globally between and within countries. The description that follows looks at how the Cape Town Equity Gauge initiative, part of the Global Equity ...

Despite good intentions and decades of discussion addressing the need for transformative changes globally to reduce poverty and improve health equity, little progress has been made. A fundamental shift in framing the current conversation is critical to achieve "health for all," moving away from the traditional approaches that use the ...

The 20^th anniversary of the groundbreaking report of the Commission on Health Research for Development inspired a Symposium to assess progress made in strengthening essential national health research capacity in developing countries and in global research partnerships. Significant aspects of the health gains achieved in the ...

The Equity in the Classroom Project (EIC) was designed to increase the participation, academic achievement, and retention of girls and other marginalized children in primary school. EIC is comprised of three main components that include technical assistan...

Physics constitutes a scientific endeavour that has benefited particularly from the globalization of our planet and the international character of its practitioners. The Medal Award was created by friends of Dwight Nicholson to highlight achievements in humanitarian service, special mentorship of students and junior colleagues while motivating interest in ...

The lack of a mechanism that aligns financial flows for global health research towards public health priorities limits the impact of health research on health and health equity. Collaborative groups of health research funders appear to be particularly well situated to ameliorate this situation and to initiate discussion on aid alignment for ...

... With passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights ... gender issues with a policy of integration and equity ... the same propensity for academic achievement, as if ...

... values of equities, commodities, and such tangible assets as real estate. ... assets and increased the perception of risk of financial instruments and ...

This handbook of collected papers is intended to aid in the achievement of sex equity in education, and in society through education. It is divided into six parts, each with a separate editor (or editors) and contains the following chapters: (1) Examining the Achievement of Sex Equity in and through Education (S. ...

Presidential Lecture at Northwestern University by Alice Agogino. Alice Agogino addresses the following, and other questions, in the context of three recent U.S. National Academy of Engineering reports, focusing on strategies for education and skills needed to meet the demands of our "flattening world." What are the major technical and sociotechnical challenges we will face in the "flat," or ...

Reform in the Mexican education system accords with global patterns of liberalisation, decentralisation, compensatory programs and accountability. The present study analyses reform in that country during the past 15 years. It reveals that despite expectations of change attending the installation of the new government which replaced the ruling party dominant for 70 years, there ...

Slides used for Presidential Lecture at Northwestern University by Alice Agogino. Alice Agogino addresses the following, and other questions, in the context of three recent U.S. National Academy of Engineering reports, focusing on strategies for education and skills needed to meet the demands of our "flattening world." What are the major technical and sociotechnical challenges we will face in the ...

Early 20th-century cardiovascular voluntary organizations in the United States drew strength from the well-established antituberculosis movement. By midcentury, heart disease among the young and tuberculosis had declined in this country. The international fight against tuberculosis has gathered force since the 1990s. Meanwhile, support for international cardiovascular interventions has lagged ...

First published in 1985, the Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity Through Education quickly established itself as the essential reference work concerning gender equity in education. This new, expanded edition provides a 20-year retrospective of the field, one that has the great advantage of documenting U.S. national data on the gains ...

Japan's premier health accomplishment in the past 50 years has been the achievement of good population health at low cost and increased equity between different population groups. The development of Japan's policies for universal coverage are similar to the policy debates that many countries are having in their own contexts. The financial sustainability of ...

If the 2010 CPHA conference is a bellwether of mainstream Canadian public and global health practice, its dearth of human rights papers suggests that, outside a small scholarly cohort, human rights remain marginal therein. This potential 'rights gap' conflicts with growing recognition of the relationship between health and human rights and ergo, the importance of human rights ...

Urban living is the new reality for the majority of the world's population. Urban change is taking place in a context of other global challenges-economic globalization, climate change, financial crises, energy and food insecurity, old and emerging armed conflicts, as well as the changing patterns of communicable and noncommunicable diseases. These health ...

In the wake of dynamic economic and political transitions worldwide, the Institute of Medicine recently released its report advocating investments in global health from the United States (US). The expert panel reinforces the �transnational and interdisciplinary� nature of global health research and practice as an endeavor �to improve health and ...

People have entered an era of education reform with an extensive focus on how well students are being prepared to succeed in postsecondary education and careers in a rapidly changing global economy, as well as to become thriving, contributing members in the democracy. Although these aims have recast national conversation in some important ways, they have not altered ...

Over the last several decades a number of strategies have emerged and evolved to promote gender equity in development efforts. Yet debates regarding the relative efficacy of these strategies remain. On Thursday, April 26, 2007, the Woodrow Wilson Center convened a group of experts on gender and development to address the issue of gender inequality from a variety of ...

Over the past three decades, Malaysia has achieved growth, equity and structural transformation in an ethnically diverse society. In evaluating government actions, the right emphasis is not on a simple state versus market approach but on the closeness of ...

The 113-page draft program of action of the 1994 UN International Conference on Population and Development is the culmination of years of efforts by governments, international organizations, and nongovernmental groups to formulate a new global agreement on population and development. Its many proposed actions are considered crucial to achieving ...

in the immediate, visible circumstances of peoples lives � their access to health care, schools, and education balancing the needs of social and economic development of the whole global population, health equity health and disease. Certainly, maldistribution of health care � not delivering care to those who most

This is a watershed era in education as the states and the nation move from the old equity and adequacy of minimums and basic skills to the new equity and adequacy of excellence in education and proficiency outcomes for all children and at all schools. This is being driven by the requirements of the knowledge society, global economy, ...

The DOTS programme in India has been recognized as the fastest growing programme in the world. It currently covers more than 1 billion people (90% of the population). In spite of this rapid expansion, the programme has consistently achieved the global target of 85% cure rates. However, improvement in case detection rates has been slow, and the ...

health issues through research and action. The Center for Global Health builds on this tradition that aims to promote global health equity. VISION The Center aims to embrace multi discussion on the evidence base for improving global health 2. To promote innovative and interdisciplinary

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) in Maryland has made progress on the dual dimensions of excellence and equity for its 140,000 students, about half of whom are black or Hispanic. Beginning in 1999, with the leadership of Supt. Jerry Weast, MCPS managed to boost the achievement of its top quartile of students while the lower quartiles improved even ...

Breast cancer in the developing world: meeting the unforeseen challenge to women, health and equity. Breast cancer (BC) is one example. It is an important, unforeseen challenge to women and to health to face the challenge of breast cancer in the developing world, the disease must be recognized as a major

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Funding for Planning Research in Support of the Global Health Initiative and Other Critical Health Interventions focused on Women and Girls Health and/or Gender Equity...

A number of U.S.-based firms began investing outside the U.S. � Why? Less competition, American hubris

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... Mechanisms in terms of their implications for equity, environmental integrity, and economic efficiency, and discusses coordination of domestic policies with the Kyoto Mechanisms."...

United Nations Millenium Development Goals: End poverty and hunger, universal education, gender equity, child health, maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, environmental sustainability and global partnerships. "In the 2009 Millennium Development Goals Report released earlier this year, the Secretary-General noted: "We have made important progress in this ...

This article describes how Bechtel`s PowerLine concept brings economies of scale and the fundamentals of mass production to plant design and construction. Privatization, globalization and commoditization will shape the power industry for decades to come. Diverse as these forces are, they are bound together by a common business imperative: the need for low-cost, high-quality ...

Gender equity and equality in health and human development are key national and international goals. To achieve these goals, the androcentric definition of work needs to be addressed. The current definition is driven by the globalized capitalistic model, which equates "work" with generating income or the production of goods. Indeed, ...

Hoping to achieve the current Japanese administration's goals of decentralisation and privatisation, the Japanese government has granted substantial latitude to local governments and individual schools as part of its recent reform of foreign language education. In introducing English at elementary schools (EES), micro-language policies have been actively enacted at the local ...

almond p. & lathlean j. (2011)?Inequity in provision of and access to health visiting postnatal depression services. Journal of Advanced Nursing 00(0), 000-000. ABSTRACT: Aim.? This paper is a report of a study of equity in the provision of a public health nursing postnatal depression service. Background.? Postnatal depression is a global public health ...

This article examines the impact of U.S. firms issuing equity in multiple markets. We compare the stock price reactions of announcements of global equity offers to a control group of issues offered exclusively in the domestic U.S. market. All else equal, the negative price reaction that typically accompanies equity ...

Where the Girls Are: The Facts About Gender Equity in Education presents a comprehensive look at girls' educational achievement during the past 35 years, paying special attention to the relationship between girls' and boys' progress. Analyses of results from national standardized tests, such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the ...

Where the Girls Are PowerPoint presentation with annotations on each slide. Where the Girls Are: The Facts About Gender Equity in Education presents a comprehensive look at girls' educational achievement during the past 35 years, paying special attention to the relationship between girls' and boys' progress. Analyses of results from national standardized ...

The education of Taiwan Aborigines and U.S. American Indians is compared using eight criteria of educational policy analysis. The criteria of equity is addressed in Taiwan through policies that promote the educational quality of Aboriginal elementary and junior high schools, expand higher educational opportunities for Taiwan Aborigines, universalize Aboriginal preschool ...

This training manual, one in a series of eight, has been developed to help state and local supervisors and teacher educators in technical education to conduct a workshop on sex equity, as it relates to their future programs, for vocational education teachers and administrators in the technical education service area. The workshop's intent is to help these professionals to ...

Solutions to Health Disparities" A P R I L 3 0, 2 0 0 9 Sponsored by the University of Mississippi Schools and Achieving Equity: Developing Solutions to Health Disparities" - 2 - #12;T H E WA L L A C E C O N E R LY H E and Achieving Equity: Addressing Disparities in Health Care" Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H. ...

The US Indian health system utilizes a diverse range of health information technology and innovative tools to enhance health service delivery for American Indians and Alaska Natives. This article provides an overview of efforts and experience using such tools to achieve health equity for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Specific attention is ...

This report provides a review of the California Community Colleges Board of Governors' policy and system progress in achieving student equity. It explores the regulatory basis for student equity; advances a definition of student equity; considers the Board's historical commitment to student success; identifies ...

contributing to this report operate in a continually changing environment and new risks emerge continually of globalization to enhance efficiency, ensure equity and manage a global risk environment which is both more and infectious diseases. Building a culture of supply chain risk management across public and private sectors may

In a "Multicultural Teaching and Learning" course, racial equity is one of the many issues explored. When discussing racial equity in our schools, teacher education students in the course focus their attention on such issues as the achievement gap, referrals to special education of African American and Latino males, the racism of low ...

Promoting education and equity for women and girls. Gender Equity Mission: AAUW promotes equity for all women and girls, lifelong education, and positive societal change. Since 1881 the American Association of University Women has been the nation's leading voice promoting education and equity for women and girls. ...

This study provides cross-national empirical evidence that substantiates the dialectic relationship between global and local contexts with regard to educational gender equity both as a national principle and as a priority for state action. Cross-national data on educational gender equity policies across 160 countries were gathered from ...

Doctoral programs play a significant role in preparing future leaders. Science Education doctoral programs play an even more significant role preparing leaders in a field that is critical to maintaining national viability in the face of global competition. The current science education reforms have the goal of achieving science literacy for all students ...

One important factor frustrating optimal management of Department of Energy (DOE)-complex wastes is the inability to use licensed and permitted facilities systematically. Achieving the goal of optimal use of DOE`s waste management facilities is politically problematic for two reasons. First, no locale wants to bear a disproportionate burden from DOE wastes. Second, the burden ...

One important factor frustrating optimal management of DOE-complex wastes is inability to use licensed and permitted facilities systematically. Achieving the goal of optimal use of DOE`s waste management facilities is politically problematic for two reasons. First, no locale wants to bear a disproportionate burden from DOE wastes. Second, the burden imposed by additional ...

Over the last decades, awareness has increased about the phenomenon of medical pluralism and the importance to integrate biomedicine and other forms of health care. The broad variety of healing cultures existing alongside biomedicine is called complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) in industrialized countries and traditional medicine (TM) in developing countries. Considerable debate has ...

Treating education as a socially transformative and morally conscious enterprise calls for educators to expose and improve social conditions related to oppression. These beliefs herald a different kind of practice for teachers and administrators in public schools, a practice that deals directly with dilemmas of equity and pluralism. Limited understanding of what happens in the ...

Growth in global health interest in the past 20 years has been overwhelming and many universities throughout the world have created departments or institutes of global health. The essence of global health has to be promoting health equity globally. The global health agenda ...

BackgroundEconomic changes and policy reforms, consistent with economic globalization, in New Zealand in the mid-1980s, combined with the recent global demand for dairy products, particularly from countries undergoing a 'nutrition transition', have created an environment where a proportion of the New Zealand population is now experiencing financial ...

The goal of global equity in health care requires that the training of health-care professionals be better tuned to meet the needs of the communities they serve. In fact medical education is being driven into isolated communities by factors including workforce undersupply, education pedagogy, medical practice and research needs. Rural and remote medical ...

In India, despite improvements in access to health care, inequalities are related to socioeconomic status, geography, and gender, and are compounded by high out-of-pocket expenditures, with more than three-quarters of the increasing financial burden of health care being met by households. Health-care expenditures exacerbate poverty, with about 39 million additional people falling into poverty ...

Mortality rates of children less than 5 years old range from <10 per 1000 live births in industrialized countries to >100 in the world's poorest countries. The fact that in New York City infant mortality fell from approximately 140 deaths per 1000 live births in 1900 to <60 per 1000 by 1930 indicates what can be achieved through improvements in public health, such as ...

This paper considers the experiences of two sets of students who attended schools that taught mathematics in completely different ways. One of the schools used a traditional, textbook approach, and the other used an open, project-based approach. The latter approach produced equity between girls and boys whereas the textbook approach prompted many of the girls to under ...

Principals are required by policy, regulation, legislation and democratic discourse to promote equity of outcomes. This integrated review investigates research on equity issues facing five student groups: special needs students; religious, cultural and racial minorities; groups disadvantaged by socioeconomic status; gender groups; and students ...

The UCI Advance Program carries out the campus commitment to gender equity and diversity in the professoriate. Originally funded by a NSF institutional Transformation award in 2001, UCI has seen dramatic gains in the presence of women in STEM fields. Based on the success of the Equity Advisor model, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Michael R. ...

This article examines equity in national systems of education in terms of differences in student outcomes, as measured by mathematics achievement scores on Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003. The author uses four measures for assessing equity in student outcomes: (1) the strength of the relationship between ...

Trend data show that girls and women have made substantial gains in the last three decades in terms of educational equity (NCES, 2000). They are doing as well or better than their male peers on many indicators of educational achievement and attainment. However, they still lag behind their male peers in

The historical development of the Mandatory Oil Import Quota Program is reviewed, and the manner in which it functions is described. Several analyses made during and shortly after the Cabinet Task Force Report are reviewed, and these are updated to reflect changing market conditions. Finally, the equity and efficiency aspects of the program are analyzed in the ...

,DVC(A),DVC(R), PVC(A,E&L),PVC(B), PVC(S&T),PVC(H)PVC(INS), PVC(A),PVC(Int) Responsible for achieving equity and diversity planning and implementation proceeds by the same basic methodologies of quality assurance

between men's and women's sports. The 1996 Gender Equity Plan was based on our assessment of what might in the Department, so that women's sports never has to play catch-up with men's sports again. The Department offers: that women are entitled to the same benefits of coaching and instruction as men are, in sports

In spite of improvements in global health over the 20th century, health inequities are increasing. Mounting evidence suggests that reducing health inequities requires taking action on the social determinants of health (SDOH), which include income, education, employment, political empowerment and other factors. This paper introduces an alternative health education curriculum, ...

The charge of this Section is ethics and global responsibilities in oral health and disease. Oral health is determined by the same factors as those for general health. To a limited extent, the level of oral health care and dental education. The philosophy and organization of the health care system and dental education, therefore, are key determinants of oral health. Dental ...

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The "problem of the 21st century" is rapidly expanding diversity alongside stubbornly persistent status and power inequities by race, ethnicity, gender, class, language, citizenship and region. Extensive technological, economic, political and social changes, along with immigration, combine to produce a global community of great diversity and interpenetration. Unfortunately, ...

The ADVANCE program seeks to actively advance the research and scientific reputation of the University of Arizona by promoting faculty diversity and the equitable treatment of faculty. This mission will benefit scientists, students and citizens of the state of Arizona by promoting discovery and innovation and ensuring all scientists regardless of gender have the opportunity to excel and to be ...

The health inequalities in South Africa are rapidly worsening. Since 1994, the new democratic government has initiated a number of large-scale policies and programs with explicit pro-equity objectives that have improved access to health care and other social resources. However, these policies and programs have been constrained by macroeconomic policies that dictate fiscal ...

Equity in education relies on equal access to learning experiences and fair play during those experiences. Too often policy makers, voters and even some educators define equity only in terms of equal access. Equity is less about the same treatment for all and more about holding everyone to the same high standards and high expectations. ...

This article provides the background and context to the important issue of assessment and equity in relation to Indigenous students in Australia. Questions about the validity and fairness of assessment are raised and ways forward are suggested by attending to assessment questions in relation to equity and culture-fair assessment. Patterns of ...

Health equity is one of the main avowed objectives of public health policy across the world. Yet economic evaluations in public health (like those in health care more generally) continue to focus on maximizing health gain. Health equity considerations are rarely mentioned. Health economists rely on the quasi-egalitarian value judgment that 'a QALY is a ...

This digest provides background information about gender equity in sports and physical activity as well as specific strategies for achieving equity at the middle and secondary school levels. The paper begins by describing gender equitable sports programs as ones in which either boys or girls would be pleased to accept as its own the ...

Each January since 1997, "Education Week," the K-12 industry's newspaper of record, has issued its "Quality Counts" report, ranking states by, among other things, the "equity" of their school finances. On the other hand, every fall since 2001, the "Education Trust," a national organization devoted to closing the achievement gap in public schools, has ...

A central commitment of current reforms in science education is that all students, regardless of culture, gender, race, and/ or socioeconomic status, are capable of understanding and doing science. The study Bridging the Gap: Equity in Systemic Reform assessed equity in systemic reform using a nested research design that drew on both qualitative and ...

With increased interest in integrating environmental justice into the process for developing environmental regulations in the United States, analysts and decision makers are confronted with the question of what methods and data can be used to assess disproportionate environmental health impacts. However, as a first step to identifying data and methods, it is important that analysts understand what ...

The case for a Variable Import Fee (VIF) can be made on the basis of economic efficiency, equity, and national security. The VIF represents an appropriate intervention by government to counteract predatory pricing and achieve some measure of price stability. It advances conservation and reduces dependence on imports.

Discusses principles for allocation of endowment funds by governing boards, including intergenerational equity, the inherent conflict between an institution's operating budget and its endowment, the importance of achieving financial integrity, and spending policies in volatile markets. Guidelines for board-reviewing policies are offered. (DB)

Although a development strategy stressing industrialization based on import substitution and participation in the Central American Common Market (CACM) has helped Costa Rica achieve growth with equity since 1960, the country is now in a severe economic cr...

The document represents a synthesis of a much larger research report produced by the National Advisory Committee on Black Higher Education and Black Colleges and Universities. The larger paper lays out the detailed rationale and basis of the necessary sys...

This report assumes that the Black colleges and Black higher education are a part of a dynamic system, including several essential supportive structures which will ultimately result in upgrading the level of the economic, social and political life of Blac...

A sense of urgency pervades public education these days as students struggle to meet the high standards set by their state and the nation. Teachers are pressed as never before to improve education quality and equity. Achievement gaps persist, and parents ...

This report describes the organization, planning, and procedures for two seminars which examined alternative approaches to the achievement of two goals: increasing equity and improving educational practices. The seminars had as their major purposes the st...

Unequivocal urgency shapes our national discussion of public education. Students strive to meet new academic standards while their teachers work to improve the quality and equity of education opportunities. Yet achievement gaps persist, particularly in ur...

is essential to ensuring quality graduate education and equity across all programs. Faculty achieve establishing and maintaining a high quality graduate education and research experience for students, such as publications, performances, exhibitions, patents, inventions and research grants. Affiliate Graduate

This study examined differences in computer aptitude in a middle school classroom in Georgia. Analysis of the data showed that there were gender differences found in computer technology acheivement. Keywords: gender equity, women and information technology

"These pages are part of an on-going project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College, in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. There are biographical essays or comments on most of the women mathematicians and some photos. Indexed alphabetically and chronologically." keywords:gender ...

interests and needs of African American students and to create academic and intellectual engagement numbers of African American, Latino, and other minority students. This paucity of academic professionals Latinos, African Americans and other underrepresented student groups. In order to comply with this request

A project provided technical assistance and support to the Wisconsin Vocational Equity Leadership Cadre to enable them to assist local districts in meeting the equity assurances in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990. Approximately 80 members of the cadre, educators responsible for providing regional training for ...

A number of perspectives on adult education are evident in the international literature, with publications from the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education held in Hamburg, Germany, in July 1997, a particularly rich source of information. A clear trend in the conference and the documents it produced was the critical importance of adult education and adult learning "for fostering ...

Worldwide increases in energy prices, as well as the increased potential for project financing derived from emissions credits, have renewed focus on coal bed methane (CBM) and coal mine methane (CMM) projects in coal-producing countries around the world. Globally, CBM utilization projects (in the operational, development, or planning stages) capture and utilize methane from ...

Nationally and internationally equity in education has become a key goal. In Norway, a White Paper has been tabled to address how equity can be improved through education. In this paper the pedagogic and knowledge orientation of the initiatives are analyzed and discussed in relation to two models of equity: "equity ...

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how equity audits can be used as a tool to expose disparate achievement in schools that, on the surface and to the public, appear quite similar. To that end, the researcher probed beyond surface-level performance composite scores into deeper, more hidden data associated with state-recognized "Honor Schools of ...

BackgroundEfficiency and equity are both important policy objectives in resource allocation. The discipline of health economics has traditionally focused on maximising efficiency, however addressing inequities in health also requires consideration. Methods to incorporate equity within economic evaluation techniques range from qualitative judgements to ...

Current policy discourses on "equity" in VET tend to gloss over the nature of the socioeconomic disadvantage that underlies questions of the participation and achievement of the so-called "target equity groups." While indexes of socioeconomic disadvantage are widely applied in education, their application to VET participation is as ...

Public values failure occurs when the market and the public sector fail to provide goods and services required to achieve the core values of society such as equity (Bozeman 2007). That public policy for emerging health technologies should address intrinsic societal values such as equity is not a novel concept. However, the ways that ...

Escalating world complexity, resulting primarily from advancing technological synergy and an unprecedented rise in globalization, dictates that the United States provide visionary and committed leadership to address worldwide equity and equality issues in...