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Urban HEART : Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool

World Health Organization WHO (2010) C_WHO

The Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) is a user-friendly guide for policy- and decision-makers at national and local levels to: identify and analyse inequities in health between people living in various parts of cities, or belonging to different socioeconomic groups with ... more

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UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2019) CC

Technical Note on Antimicrobial Resistance This document reflects UNICEF’s response to the growing global threat of AMR to child survival, growth and development. It identifies UNICEF’s AMR-specific and AMR-sensitive actions in reducing infections, promoting access to and optimal use of antimic ... more

Africa CDC Policy Recommendation for African Union Meetings and Travel During COVID-19 Outbreak

African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Safeguarding Africa's Health) African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Safeguarding Africa's Health) (2020) C2

Updated 2020-03-12

Considerations for implementing and adjusting public health and social measures in the context of COVID-19
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

interim guidance, 14 June 2021 This document is intended for national authorities and decision makers in countries that have introduced large scale public health and social measures. It offers guidance for adjusting public health and social measures, while managing the risk of a resurgence of cases ... more

COVID-19 Multi-Sector Response Plan - Papua New Guinea Disaster Management Team

UNCT; PNG; reliefweb (2020) C2

his revision to the Disaster Management Team’s (DMT) multi-sector response plan for COVID-19 is meant to align the multi-sector plan with the Department of Health’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan issued on 24 April 2020. Additionally, at the time of this version, the Department of Education an ... more

Orientation provisoire Alert sur le genre pour la pandémie deCOVID-19

Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC, et al. (2020) C1

Recognizing the extent to which the COVID-19 outbreaks affects women and men differently is hugely important. Some preliminary data suggested that more men than women are dying, potentially due to sex-based immunological differences, higher rates of cardiovascular disease for men and lifestyle choic ... more

Community-based health care, including outreach and campaigns,in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Arabic Version
recommended

World Health Organization WHO, IFRC; UNICEF (2020) C_WHO

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Prise en Charge Diabète – Tuberculose

The Union (2019) C1

Guide des éléments essentiels pour une bonne pratique - Première édition 2019 Ce guide a été conçu afin d’apporter les informations nécessaires à une prise en charge pratique et exhaustive des personnes atteintes de diabète et de tuberculose. Il s’appuie sur les résultats d’étude ... more

Update 48 – the allocation of COVID-19 vaccines

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

8 February 2021

Situation Analysis of Children and Women in Kenya, 2017

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2017) C1

The report provides the much-needed evidence to design interventions for children in Kenya and as such we urge partners to use this report as a document for planning for children.

Integrating Primary Care And Public Health

Bernd Rechel Eurohealth (2020) CC

There are many calls for improved integration between primary care and public health, but also sizeable obstacles to achieving this, such as differences in the ways the two sectors are organised and financed, as well as differences in education, culture and approach. This article, based on a new ... more

ANA’s Principles for Nurse Staffing - Third Edition

American Nurses Association (2020) CC

The 2019 ANA’s Principles for Nurse Staffing, Third Edition, identifies major elements needed to achieve appropriate nurse staffing, which enhances the delivery of safe, quality health care. These principles are grounded in the substantive and growing body of evidence that demonstrates the link be ... more

Principles of Clinical Ethics and Their Application to Practice

Varkey, B. Medical Principles and Practice (2021) CC

Med Princ Pract 2021;30:17–28 An overview of ethics and clinical ethics is presented in this review. The 4 main ethical principles, that is beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice, are defined and explained. Informed consent, truth-telling, and confidentiality spring from the ... more

Communicating with health workers about COVID-19 vaccination

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2021) C_WHO

Enhancing response to Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

21 January 2022 The overall threat posed by Omicron largely depends on four key questions: (i) how transmissible the variant is; (ii) how well vaccines and prior infection protect against infection, transmission, clinical disease and death; (iii) how virulent the variant is compared to other varian ... more

Resource Guide on Climate Change for Religious Communities

Religions for Peace (2016) C1

Immunisation 10 messages for children to learn and share

Children for Health (2022) CC

Large File: 28 MB

Practical guide to inclusive and rights-based responses to Covid-19 in the Americas

OAS (2020) CC

WHY THIS GUIDE? Because, in the face of crises and emergencies, it is vital to include a human rights perspective in responses. Vulnerable groups face major obstacles to accessing and benefiting from prevention, mitigation, and health care policies due to structural barriers of inequality. To offer ... more

Healthy planet, healthy people. Understanding the relationship between human health and natural systems

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) (2022) C2

Human activities are driving fundamental changes to the biosphere and disrupting many of our planet’s natural systems. There is increasing scientific evidence that the unfolding climate crisis, global pollution, unprecedented levels of biodiversity loss, and pervasive changes in land use and cover ... more