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39 “Wild Poliovirus 2000–2009”, in WHO Global Polio Eradication Initiative, “Wild Poliovirus Weekly Update”, – см.: www.polioeradication.org, последнее обновление 3 июня 2009 года; Donald G. McNeil, Jr., “Mecca Pilgrims May Be Spreading Polio, Experts Say”, New York Times, 11 February 2005; Nigeria from WHO, Global Polio Eradication Initiative: Annual Report 2006 (Geneva: 2007), p. 6.

40 “Wild Poliovirus 2000–2009”, op. cit. note 39; “Pakistan Polio Drive is Suspended”, BBC News, 8 августа 2007 года; Isambard Wilkinson, “Taliban Blocks UN Polio Treatment in Pakistan”, Tele graph (London), 27 March 2009.

41 Declan Butler, “$630-Million for Push to Eradicate Polio”, Nature News, 21 January 2009; Barack H. Obama, “Remarks by the President on a New Beginning”, речь в Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, 4 June 2009.

42 Michele Barry, “The Tail of Guinea Worm – Global Eradication Without a Drug or Vaccine”, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 356, no. 25 (21 June 2007), pp. 2561–2564.

43 “Grants Push Guinea Worm to All-Time Low”, news release (Atlanta, GA: The Carter Center, 20 January 2009); The Carter Center, “Distribution by Country of 4,647 Cases of Indigenous Cases of Dracunculiasis Reported During 2008”, – см.: www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/ index.html, просмотрено автором 13 мая 2009 г.

44 Смерть от употребления табака по информации Всемирной организации здравоохранения: WHO, “Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)”, fact sheet (Geneva: November 2006); “The Tobacco Epidemic: A Crisis of Startling Dimensions”, in Message from the Director-General of the World Health Organization for World No-Tobacco Day 1998 , – см.: www.who.int; загрязнение воздуха по данным Всемирной организации здравоохранения: WHO, “Air Pollution”, информационный листок 187 (Geneva: rev. September 2000).

45 Alison Langley, “Anti-Smoking Treaty Is Adopted by 192 Nations”, New York Times, 22 May 2003; информацию об Инициативе избавления от табака, начатой Всемирной организацией здравоохранения, см.: www.who.int/tobacco/index.cfm; данные о целях заключения договора и роли Блумберга взяты из статьи: Alexi A. Wright and Ingrid T. Katz, “Tobacco Tightrope – Balancing Disease Prevention and Economic Development in China”, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 356, no. 15 (12 April 2007), pp. 1493–1496.

46 Потребление сигарет по информации USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, op. cit. note 9, и из Tom Capehart, Tobacco Outlook (Washington, DC: USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS), 24 April 2007); оценки на душу населения сделаны с учетом численности населения по информации U.N. Population Division, op. cit. note 2; Daniel Yee, “Smoking Declines in U.S. – Barely”, CBS News, 10 November 2004.

47 Betsy McKay, “Cigarette Tax Clouds Boosts Among States”, Wall Street Journal, 8 February 2009.

48 Потребление сигарет по информации USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, op. cit. note 9, и из Capehart, op. cit. note 46; оценки на душу населения сделаны с учетом численности населения по информации U.N. Population Division, op. cit. note 2.

49 “Smoking Bans Around the World”, Reuters, 10 January 2005; “New Zealand Stubs Out Smoking in Bars, Restaurants”, Reuters, 13 December 2004.

50 “Bangladesh Bans Smoking in Many Public Places”, Reuters, 15 March 2005; Информация по Италии взята из: “Europeans Back Public Smoking Ban”, BBC News, 31 May 2006; “England Smoking Ban Takes Effect”, BBC News, 1 May 2007 года; информация по Франции из: Howard K. Koh et al., “Making Smoking History Worldwide”, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 356, no. 15 (12 April 2007), pp. 1496– 1498; “French Cafes Set to Ban Smoking”, BBC News, 28 December 2007; “Bulgaria Votes for Smoking Ban in Public Places”, Reuters, 15 May 2009; Ivana Sekularac, “Smoking Ban Angers Cafes, Smokers in Croatia”, Reuters, 6 May 2009.

51 “Connections between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease Explored”, Science Daily , 11 May 2009.

52 “Cancer Most Lethal Illness in China Last Year”, China Daily , 8 May 2007; Barbara Demick, “China Blames Pollution for Surge in Birth Defects”, Los Angeles Times , 2 February 2009.

53 Sachs and Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, op. cit. note 27.

54 Информация о странах с населением более 1 миллиона человек и естественным приростом населения 0,4% или менее взята из U.N. Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision, Extended Dataset, CD-ROM (New York: 9 April 2009).

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