Better diagnostics will be needed to improve case management, the more so as the introduction of conjugate vaccines worldwide changes the aetiology and epidemiology of pneumonia [14], [15].
In recognizing and accepting this worldwide change, we must move on and consider the types of adaptations that could occur as a consequence.
The accompanying worldwide change in demographics of human populations is linked to unanticipated and unprecedented economic, cultural, medical, social, public health and public policy challenges, whose full implications on a societal level are only just beginning to be fully appreciated.
With worldwide changes affecting the living world around us at an ever-increasing rate and magnitude, the Encyclopedia of Life enterprise cannot come too soon.
Though it lasted only from 1919 to 1933, and was forced to move from historic Weimar to industrial Dessau and then Berlin, always facing opposition, it produced worldwide changes in the arts and crafts it addressed.
These problems grew more severe as a result of worldwide changes in the methods of processing raw materials and in industrial production that developed from the beginning of the 1970s.
The dramatic increase in incidence and prevalence of obesity over the past 50 years, associated in part with major worldwide changes in caloric intake and dietary composition, has focused attention on lifestyle intervention to reverse or ameliorate caloric imbalance.
Worldwide changes in sea level, called eustatic sea-level changes, have occurred throughout geologic history.
Further, Haffner claims that other than Alexander the Great, Hitler had a more significant impact than any other comparable historical figure, in that he too caused a wide range of worldwide changes in a relatively short time span.
Under the motto 'You are the summit', UNICEF in partnership with the Morgan Stanley International Foundation is calling upon adolescents to deal with the fight against poverty and HIV/AIDS, the worldwide climate change and other topics which will feature during the G8 summit of industrialized nations to be held in Heiligendamm, Germany in June.
