The participants stressed the central role of water in ensuring sustainable development, public health, poverty alleviation and combating the effects of climate change.
Achieving that could take many years, for it will require technological advances in drugs and pesticides, as well as a development of public-health infrastructure in poor countries.
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"The most important elements right now are both a development of a concerted public health plan, which involves setting up significant detection, and setting up the hospitals' ability to diagnose, treat and push vaccines, " said Jeremy Levin , also in March.
As I said, anything -- could go for something as repaying for the defraying of cost to move diagnostic and screening equipment or public health infrastructure, the purchase of and development of more antiviral medication, or as we get into the development of a seed stock for a vaccine.
We must increase official development assistance (ODA) in public health, including for building basic infrastructure.
Mr. Hu advocated a more inclusive form of development, with expansion of public pension and health-care coverage.
"Public Health Wales has undertaken a needs assessment to inform the development of services and to identify any gaps in the current skill mix of staff, " added the spokesman.
In addition to helping local governments tap into federal expertise, the work of the SC2 teams in pilot cities has identified best practices that will improve how the federal government partners with many other communities to support job training, economic development, safer neighborhoods, and improved public health outcomes.
The more I report on global public health, the more I see the need for creative approaches to drug development and distribution.
They build on actions such as the Open Government Directive, the Digital Government Strategy, and, most recently, the Open Data Initiatives project, which is bringing the benefits of open data to a wide range of domains including health, energy, education, public safety, finance, and global development.
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Last week, it produced a report recommending that a regional assembly should take charge of most regional public spending and make decisions about economic planning and development, transport, training, health and the arts.
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Development officials had always tended to emphasise the role of the public sector in improving public health.
Malthus did not anticipate the development of powerful new vaccines for diseases like small-pox and equally powerful advances in public health infrastructure like modern sewage systems and so forth.
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