Public social developments

UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development). 2005. Gender Equality Striving for Justice in an Unequal World. Geneva UNRISD/UN Publications. 

OECD. The OECD is a 29-member international group that discusses and develops economic and social policy in such areas as trade, public management, development assistance, and financial markets. 

Disaster recovery is a social process that encompasses [a) planning for future events, (b) public policy development, and (c) social learning. This mandates the establishment of organizational relationships and intergovernmental linkages—and the processes for collaboration and coordination that enhance recovery efforts. 

In accordance with the National Health Development of the National Economic and Social Development plans, the Thai FDA strives to offer good quality services, effective consumer health protection and human resources development for the sake of the public health and overall development of the country. 

Around the same time, UNICEF intensified its efforts to advocate USI as the most appropriate long-term strategy for the control of IDD in developing countries. In 1990, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution to eliminate iodine deficiency as a public health problem. In that same year, seventy heads of state gathered at the World Summit for Children and pledged to make the elimination of IDD one of the health and social development goals to be achieved by the year 2000. 

Dam break is considered as the typical public safety event. Once occurred, it may cause catastrophic destroy and impact on downstream life, property, infrastructure, eco-environment and economic and social development. At present, there are altogether 98,002 reservoirs in China, ranking the first place all over the world. From the year of 1954 to 2010, 3515 dams were broken completely, some of which caused heavy casualties. But also some dam-break events had done less damage or even no damage at all. The important reason that causes such difference is to strengthen the analysis of dam-break results and forecast of dam-break... 

The objective must be a society which is not only happy, healthy and well fed (not overfed) but also sufficiently well informed about food so that each individual can adopt a healthy eating habit taking into account his own individual needs (both pleasure needs and nutrient needs) and his own individual socio-economic and physiological circumstances— which will, of course, be continually changing throughout life. It is the task of nutritionists to find out the facts by appropriate research, to pass on to the public meaningful information about food, nutrition and health, and to seek social developments where these are necessary. 

The evolution of school mental health services has occurred over a long time span and reflects social developments outside of education, changes in dominant philosophies and approaches to public education, and developments in those professional fields that relate to school mental health. 

After discharge, all infants were followed by a team composed of a pediatrician with subspecialty training in Child Development, a public health nurse, and a social worker. In order to maintain contact with the foster families and relatives who had responsibility for the care of the infant, team members made regular home visits and had frequent telephone contact with the infants caretakers. During the first 3 months of placement, infants were seen (an average of twice per month) for follow-up visits at home or in the UCLA Child Development Clinic. Phone conferences with caretakers were held on a biweekly basis. During the foil owing 3 months, clinic and home visits were tapered to once per month and phone contacts were made biweekly. 

Social impact assessment can be defined as the process of assessing or estimating the social consequences that are likely to follow from specific policy actions or project development, particularly in the context of appropriate national, state, or provincial environmental policy legislation (Vanclay 2003 Burdge 2004). It includes all social and cultural consequences to human populations of any public or private actions that alter the ways in which people live, work, play, relate to one another, organize to meet their needs, and generally cope as members of society... 

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