About the Cover
Cover. The cover image this month is intended to commemorate both the 60th year anniversary of the World Health Organization and the theme of National Public Health Week to be celebrated April 7-13, 2008, namely "Climate Change: Our Health in the Balance." In this playful depiction in the cover photograph, Ma Xiaogiang and his wife are having fun in the sand dunes of the Flying Camel Desert. Desertification abetted by global climate change is a growing problem in China, as it is for other regions of the world. More than 4,000 villages in China have been overtaken by sand, affecting more than 200 million residents. The Chinese government is hoping to stop the desert from spreading by planting a "green wall" of trees.
Copyright by Orjan F. Ellingvag/Dagens Naringsliv/Corbis. Printed with permission. Cover concept and selection by Aleisha Kropf.
Additional support for this issue was provided by the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, Center for Population Research, National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, Department of Health and Human Services, via project funds from "Love, Marriage, and HIV: A Multi-site Study of Gender and HIV Risk" (R01 HD 041724, Jennifer S. Hirsch, PI).
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