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#Dra. Valderês Antonietta Robinson Achutti (*13/06/1931+15/06/2021)

Ainda em Portugal 1998, numa excursão. Não lembro de mais detalhes, mas o que importa é que pela expressão do olhar, parecia feliz!...

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TIMELY, RELIABLE DATA ON GLOBAL HEALTH FINANCING AND SPENDING

Key findings from FGH 2021

Total global health spending in 2019

$9.2 trillion

This includes spending by governments, individuals, private companies, and development agencies, and represents a 3.1% increase from the year before.

Government health spending 59.8% of total  Spending on health from all levels of government, in public and private facilities.	Prepaid private spending 21.5% of total Spending from insurance companies directly to the health system (does not include premium payments or insurance company profits).
Out-of-pocket spending 18.2% of total Out-of-pocket spending includes payments from individuals directly to the medical system, not paid in advance.	Development assistance for health (DAH) 0.5% of total Support provided through major development agencies to improve and maintain health in low- and middle-income countries.

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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2021-22

Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a Transforming World
We live in a world of worry. The ongoing Covid-19 pan­demic, having driven reversals in human development in almost every country, continues to spin off variants unpre­dictably. War in Ukraine and elsewhere has created more human suffering. Record-breaking temperatures, fires, storms and floods sound the alarm of planetary systems increasingly out of whack. Together, they are fuelling a cost-of-living crisis felt around the world, painting a pic­ture of uncertain times and unsettled lives.
Uncertainty is not new, but its dimensions are taking om­inous new forms today. A new “uncertainty complex” is emerging, never before seen in human history. Constitut­ing it are three volatile and interacting strands: the desta­bilizing planetary pressures and inequalities of the Anthro­pocene, the pursuit of sweeping societal transformations to ease those pressures and the widespread and intensi­fying polarization.

This new uncertainty complex and each new crisis it spawns are impeding human development and unsettling lives the world over. In the wake of the pandemic, and for the first time ever, the global Human Development Index (HDI) value declined—for two years straight. Many coun­tries experienced ongoing declines on the HDI in 2021. Even before the pandemic, feelings of insecurity were on the rise nearly everywhere. Many people feel alienated from their political systems, and in another reversal, dem­ocratic backsliding has worsened.
There is peril in new uncertainties, in the insecurity, polar­ization and demagoguery that grip many countries. But there is promise, too—an opportunity to reimagine our futures, to renew and adapt our institutions and to craft new stories about who we are and what we value. This is the hopeful path forward, the path to follow if we wish to thrive in a world in flux.

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ASTRONOMY   Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars By JONATHAN O’CALLAGHAN Theory has it that “Population III” stars brought light to the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope may have just glimpsed them. Read the article Related:  Standard Model of Cosmology Survives a Telescope’s Surprising Finds By Rebecca Boyle TOPOLOGY   Mathematicians Eliminate Long-Standing Threat to Knot Conjecture By LEILA SLOMAN A new proof shows that a knot some thought would contradict the famed slice-ribbon conjecture doesn’t. Read the blog Related:  Why Mathematicians Study Knots By David S. Richeson (2022) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE   Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics By MAX G. LEVY A wave of research improves reinforcement learning algorithms by pre-training them as if they were human. Read the article Related:  Playing Hide-and-Seek, Machines Invent New Tools By Stephen Ornes (2019) QUANTA SCIENCE PODCAST   High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT; Story by CHARLIE WOOD A new atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity seen in cuprate crystals, confirming a 35-year-old theory. Listen to the podcast Read the story   Around the Web Strong and Elusive A new theoretical model explains the strange observations made in a 2017 particle physics experiment, reports Allison Parshall for Scientific American. The phenomenon can be explained by accounting for small-distance fluctuations in the strong force. Interactions involving the strong force are notoriously difficult to calculate. In 2022, Charlie Wood wrote for Quanta about recent progress in calculating and experimentally probing “nature’s most inscrutable force.” Trying to Even the Odds In 2006, the statistician Richard Gill discovered that flawed statistical methods had resulted in the wrongful conviction of a nurse. After a retrial, the nurse was released. To help prevent such miscarriages of justice in the future, Gill has now written guidelines on how to use statistics in court, writes Cathleen O’Grady for Science. Like Gill, the computer scientist Rediet Abebe pays attention to how mathematics can be a tool of injustice. In 2021, she spoke about how she uses algorithms to fight social inequity to Rachel Crowell for Quanta. You can also hear Rediet Abebe in conversation with Steven Strogatz on an episode of “The Joy of x” podcast from 2021.

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