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  1. Understanding the health of young children around the world offers an opportunity to explore important global health issues and make a difference in children's lives. Learn more about the...

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      Follow the global effort to eradicate polio in India and...

  2. Nov 5, 2005 · From AIDS to malaria, the global health community is looking for new ways to fight the world's major infectious diseases. The unprecedented effort has laid bare the fundamental problems of...

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    • Web Site
    • Rx For Child Survival
    • Media Partner Initiatives
    • Education Initiatives

    The centerpiece of Rx for Survival is a six-hour, primetime television series produced by the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions. Filmed in more than 20 nations around the world, and combining historical vignettes with contemporary documentary stories, Rx for Survivaltells the moving tales of extraordinary public health pioneers, past an...

    This Web site gives users the chance to learn more about global health and to get involved in giving children around the world a fighting chance at life. The Rx for Survivaltelevision series include: 1. The Television Broadcasts— Learn more about the broadcast programs, their creators, and the content of each episode. 2. Watch Program Video — Watch...

    Rx for Child Survivalfocuses attention on one area within global health to shine a spotlight on some of the ways we can each get involved. Public television stations around the country joined with organizations from UNICEF to Rotary International to Girl Scouts of the USA to create Community Coalitions that held series screenings, facilitated town ...

    During the week of November 1, 2005, when Rx for Survivalpremiered nationwide on PBS: 1. TIME Magazine published a special issue and hosted an international summit of health experts and policymakers; TIME's international edition and TIME for Kids also had global health focused issues. 2. NPR included stories about global health on many of its natio...

    Stories, outreach materials and teacher resources are available on this site.
    Johns Hopkins University is developing an undergraduate curriculum about global health, that will be available for the fall semester of 2006.
  3. This is a very good documentary series about the prevailing environmental and societal issues that need to be addressed for us to have a healthy planet. Brad Pitt narrates a comprehensive look at the various public health issues plaguing many countries that are compromising our ability to live a full life.

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    • 2005-10-20
    • Documentary
    • Brad Pitt, Trevor White, Martin McDougall
  4. Follow the global effort to eradicate polio in India and Nigeria. Part I: The Polio Campaign in India (5:03) Part II: The Polio Campaign in India (Public Resistance to Vaccines)

  5. Oct 20, 2005 · Rx for Survival: Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge [Hilts, Philip] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.

    • Philip Hilts
  6. RX for Survival: A Global Health Challenge” - PMC. Journal List. J Natl Med Assoc. v.98 (10); 2006 Oct. PMC2569745. As a library, NLM provides access to scientific literature. Inclusion in an NLM database does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, the contents by NLM or the National Institutes of Health.