Future challenges of forest policy analysis.

Longevity and the Future: Challenges of Health Policy

Global change and food and forest production: future scientific challenges

Production of food and forest products will need to increase to meet the world’s projected demand. This challenge can be met by either extensification or intensification but, with little new land available for agriculture in many regions of rapid population growth, intensification will be pre-eminent. Global, average cereal yields will need to rise from the current 2.9 to 4.2 Mg ha−1 by 2025. T...

Menstrual Regulation Past, Present, and Future Challenges - Policy Dialogue #9

ne of the outstanding questions of the program is how many MRs are actually performed each year. Reported numbers have remained almost constant since 1986-87 when just over 80,000 was reported. According to the government service statistics 85,000 MRs were performed in 1998. Although during the past fifteen years the number of trained providers and clinics where MRs can be performed has increas...

Health Inequalities Policy in Korea: Current Status and Future Challenges

In recent years, health inequalities have become an important public health concern and the subject of both research and policy attention in Korea. Government reports, as well as many epidemiological studies, have provided evidence that a wide range of health outcomes and health-related behaviors are socioeconomically patterned, and that the magnitude of health inequalities is even increasing. ...

Future humanitarian crises: challenges for practice, policy, and public health.

After more than three decades of preoccupation with wars and internal political conflicts, the humanitarian community has the opportunity to reevaluate what humanitarian crises will dominate both policy and practice in the future. In reality, these crises are already active and some are over the tipping point of recovery. These crises share the common thread of being major public health emergen...