This article provides an overview of the current and projected climate change risks and impacts to mental health and provides recommendations for priority actions to address the mental health consequences of climate change.
The report presents successful case studies from around the world, including the implementation of minimum protection standards for refugee children in Germany, cross border child protection systems in West Africa, and finding alternatives to the detention of migrant children in Zambia. Other countr...ies featured in the report include Afghanistan, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, South Sudan, Vietnam, Uganda and the U.S. Each of the initiatives can be replicated in different contexts and inform child-focused actions and policy change at national, regional and global levels to be agreed in the framework of the Compact.
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Copenhagen, Denmark, 7–8 March 2017. Meeting report
United Nations Office of the Resident Coordinator | http://www.unlesotho.org/
Health Evidence Network synthesis report 53
Key populations brief
Accessed 2017
Recommendations, resources and references
A publication of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society
Working Document, September 2017
UNAIDS 2017 / Reference
Generating evidence for policy and action on HIV and social protection
Treating children infected with intestinal worms is one of the simplest and most cost–effective ways to improve their health.
The recommendations are intended for a wide audience, including policy-makers and their expert advisers as well as technical and programme staff at government institution...s and organizations involved in the design, implementation and expansion of programmes to control soil-transmitted helminth infections.
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