Millennium Development Goals
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Millennium Development Goal 7
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hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability and develop a global partnership for development.
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Migrant Definition A person who has left his or her native country, to live in a different place, for a variety of reasons. There is some overlapping between the categories of refugee and migrant: in some cases, social inequalities might stimulate migration, but in general, migrants do not share the fear of persecution or the experience of past mistreatment that refugees experience.
Millennium Development Goals Definition The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that 189 United Nations member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. The Millennium Development Goals derive from earlier ‘‘international development goals’’, and were officially established at the Millennium Summit in 2000, where 189 world leaders adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, from which the eight-goal action-plan, the ‘‘Millennium Development Goals,’’ was particularly promoted. Goals are: eradicate extreme poverty and
Definition Ensure environmental sustainability.
Millennium Development Goal 7 Target 11 Definition By 2020 to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers. Indicators include ‘‘proportion of people with access to improved sanitation’’ and ‘‘proportion of people with access to secure tenure’’ (urban/rural disaggregation of several of the above indicators may be relevant for monitoring improvement in the lives of slum dwellers). ▶ Quality of Life of Urban Slum Residents
Mind-Body Medicine Definition Mind-Body Medicine uses a variety of techniques designed to enhance the mind’s capacity to affect bodily function and symptoms. Some techniques that were considered CAM in the past have become mainstream (for example, patient support groups and cognitivebehavioral therapy). Other mind-body techniques are still considered CAM, including meditation, a conscious mental process using certain techniques – such as focusing attention
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