Summary: Is good health simply the absence of physical disease, or should emotional well-being also be of concern to global aid organizations? This program profiles the work of Australia's Nossal Institute for Global Health to explain how psychological and social factors impact life expectancy and infant mortality. The video covers basic health needs, food scarcity, distribution of wealth, the UN's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Thanks to modern agricultural systems there is more than enough for everyone to eat - so why does one person in seven still go hungry, with a child dying of starvation every ten seconds? In this TEDTalk, Josette Sheeran addresses malnutrition in the developing world and outlines ways it can be eradicated. The executive director of the UN's World Food Programme, Sheeran discusses food access and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011