The objective of this briefis to set outlinkages between food safety and the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs), to identify priority issues,and to suggest how investments in food safety can help attain SDGs.
Germany has become a visible actor in global health in the past 10 years. In this Series paper, we describe how this development complements a broad change in perspective in German foreign policy.
What at first glance appears to be simple causality – climate change leading to more and more migration – has triggered intense academic debate over the past ten years because the circumstances are complex. There is need for a thorough analysis in the ground between denying the problem and asser...ting immediate causality. In international relations, migration induced by climate change and environmental degradation is increasingly recognized as a problem, whether in the framework of international climate policy, international migration policy, development cooperation, or international crisis management. But considering the dimension of these major challenges, only small steps have been taken so far. The scope of the problem continues to be underestimated. Climate change is jeopardizing the livelihoods of more and more people. It is a risk multiplier. Although understanding of the connection between climate change and migration has increased, many questions have yet to be answered. We need more knowledge to better support the people affected.
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This valuable and timely guidebook represents an innovative contribution to enhancing quality education through textbooks. It will change the way textbook authors, publishers and educators, as well as governments of the United Nations Member States, see the poten...tial of educational media at a time of growing violent extremism, changing notions of national identity, increasingly globalized and diverse communities, and environmental destruction. The need for education that promotes peace, social justice and global citizenship has become more urgent in a world of greater uncertainty. This guidebook builds on the momentum of Agenda 2030, providing a toolkit to enable textbook authors to place ESD at the core of their subjects in ways that are at once practical for them and interesting and relevant to the students.
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This toolkit aims to provide you with a brief introduction of what SA and its core principles are, and how you as a student can apply several of the existing tools for your own school to really make a difference.
French, Spanish and Arabic Version available: https://ifmsa.org/social-acc...ountability/
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Below you can find a sampleoutline of a training that you couldadapt to your time frameand audience on Social Accountability in Medical Schools.The completesample trainingwould last around3hours. The suggested number of participants is 20.The accompanying slides are in a separate Powerpoint document....This handout is part of the IFMSA/THEnet Students' Toolkit on Social Accountability in Medical Schools. Find the full toolkit and list of tools, including the slidesat www.ifmsa.org/social-accountability.
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A Review of Existing Policy Frameworks.
Report III Conversations on Planetary Health
Das Handbuch soll die Ausbildung in unterschiedlichen Gesundheitsberufen, beispielsweise in der Physiotherapie, Ergotherapie oder der Pflegeausbildung, um den Faktor interkulturelle Kompetenz bereichern.
Teaching the Sustainable Development Goals” provides information about the SDGs, their background, the global reality and offers assistance and suggestions on how to teach and support learning for sustainable development.
Vor welchen Herausforderungen die Weltgesundheitsorganisation steht und wie Deutschland zu ihrer Stärkung beitragen kann.
"Die folgende Reflexions- und Praxishilfe basiert auf den Seminarerfahrungen von glokal mit Unterstützungsgruppen und aus der Empowerment-Arbeit mit Geflüchteten. Sie ist entstanden in der gemeinsamen Arbeit mit unterschiedlichster Teilnehmer*innen, die wesentliche Aspekte zu der Liste beigetragen... haben. Wir hoffen, dass die Fragen der Liste eine Hilfe sind, um über de eigene Unterstützungsarbeit und die eigene Gruppe nachzudenken. Die Fragen sollen den Blick auf Vorurteile und Diskriminierung schärfen und dabei helfen Rassismus innerhalb der Gruppe zu erkennen und abzubaün." (glokal e.V., Willkommen ohen Paternalismus, 2017)
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Global Health Governance beschreibt die Handlungen staatlicher und nicht-staatlicher Akteure im globalen Mehrebenensystem. Inhaltlich konzentriert sich GHG auf die Bekämpfung armutsbedingter (Infektions-)Krankheiten. Die internationale Gesundheitspolitik wird stark von der Weltbank und der Weltges...undheitsorganisation beeinflusst.
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This report aims to raise awareness about the role that the reform of public health laws can play in advancing the right to health and in creating the conditions for people to live healthy lives. By encouraging a better understanding of how public health law can be used to improve the health of the ...population, the report aims to encourage and assist governments to reform their public health laws in order to advance the right to health.
The report highlights important issues that may arise during the process of public health law reform. It provides guidance about issues and requirements to be addressed during the process of developing public health laws. It also includes case studies and examples of legislation from a variety of countries to illustrate effective law reform practices and some features of effective public health legislation.
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Neben vielen gemeinnützigen Lern- und Austausch-programmen gibt es auch immer mehr kommerzielle Angebote im ‒ offensichtlich lukrativen ‒ Geschäftsfeld Reisen und „Helfen“. Viele Sendeorganisationen und Reiseveranstalter richten ihre Angebote immer stärker an den Wüns...chen der Reisenden aus, die sich nur kurzzeitig in erlebnisorientierten Projekten engagieren möchten. Be-reits in unserer ersten Ausgabe 2015 haben wir 44 Angebo-te auf dem deutschsprachigen Markt näher betrachtet: Entwicklungspolitisches Lernen durch eine intensive Vor- und Nachbereitung, effektiver Kindesschutz und die Zu-sammenarbeit mit lokalen Organisationen auf Augenhö-he sind, so das Ergebnis unserer Recherche, noch lange keine Standards bei den Kurzaufenthalte für Freiwillige.
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The Social Determinants of Health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live and age. They have a large influence on our health. It also determines health inequities, which is the unfair and avoidable health difference between different groups of people In this video we take a look at t...he social determinants of health..what they are, how it impacts health and a useful framework to understand it.
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