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TB Disease: You Need Treatment to Make You Well – Arabic

Virginia Department of Health (2002)

Fact-sheet: If I have Diabetes, what do I need to know about COVID-19? Q and A on Covid-19 and NCDS

Pan American Health Organization PAHO; World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

ARE PEOPLE WITH DIABETES MORE LIKELY TO GET COVID-19? People with diabetes are more likely to become seriously ill from COVID-19, than those who do not have diabetes. Unfortunately, persons with diabetes who get COVID-19 are more likely to die than those without diabetes.

Fact-sheet: If I have Asthma, what do I need to know about COVID-19? 21 May 2020

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2020) CC

Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese

Fact-sheet: If I have Diabetes, what do I need to know about COVID-19?

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2020) CC

Available in Englisch, Spanish and Portuguese

Use of COVID-19 evidence in humanitarian settings: the need for dynamic guidance adapted to changing humanitarian crisis contexts

Odlum, A.; R. James; A. Mahieu; et al. Conflict and Health (2021) CC

For humanitarian organisations to respond effectively to complex crises, they require access to up-to-date evidence-based guidance. The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the importance of updating global guidance to context-specific and evolving needs in humanitarian settings. Our study aimed to under ... more

Travel to and from Ebola Infected Countries is Low Risk. Here is what you need to know

World Health Organization (2014)

Autism: More need to be done

Republic of Bangladesh, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2015) C1

Training Works! What You Need to Know About Managing, Designing, Delivering, and Evaluating Group-Based Training

Jhpiego, Population Leadership Program, IntraHealth International, TRG, Family Health International (2003)

Document on key points needed to design, manage, deliver and evaluate training You can also find a spanish and french version here: http://reprolineplus.org/resources/training-works-what-you-need-know-about-managing-designing-delivering-and-evalu ... more

The Current State of CHW Training Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Need to Do

C. Redick; H. S. Faich Dini; L.-A. Long One Million Community Worker Campaign; mPowering Frontline Health Workers (2014) C2

July 2014 This report was made possible through support provided by the One Million Community Health Workers Campaign, mPowering Frontline Health Workers, Intel, and USAID. This report was author ... more

Donor funding health policy and systems research in low- and middle-income countries: how much, from where and to whom

Grépin, K.; Pinkstaff C.B.; Z. C. Shroff et al. Health Research Policy and Systems (2017) C1

Background: The need for sufficient and reliable funding to support health policy and systems research (HPSR) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been widely recognised. Currently, most ... more

The constitutional determinants of planetary health - The Lancet

C Ip, E.; and S. Fung Lee The Lancet (2021) C1

We need to understand the constitutional determinants of planetary health. A constitution denotes one, or in a minority of countries, several, legal documents that contain basic rules and principles ... more

Mental health and climate change: policy brief

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

We need to be concerned about mental health in the context of climate change

Rehabilitation in health systems (brochure)

World Health Organization (WHO) (2017) C_WHO

Rehabilitation in health systems provides recommendations for Member States and other relevant stakeholders to strengthen and expand the availability of quality rehabilitation services. Currently, there is a significant unmet ... more

Levels and Trends in Unmet Need for Family Planning Among Adolescents and Young Women in Ethiopia

Gebreselassie, Tesfayi, and Pav Govindasamy ICF International (2013) C2

Further Analysis of the 2000, 2005, and 2011 Demographic Health Surveys. DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 72

Trends and Determinants of Unmet Need for Family Planning and Programme Options, Ethiopia.

Ayele, Wondimu, Habtamu Tesfaye, Roman Gebreyes, and Tesfayi Gebreselassie ICF International (2013) C2

Further Analysis of the 2000, 2005, and 2011 Demographic and Health Surveys. DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 81

The urgent need to identify and evaluate patient safety interventions in fragile, conflict- affected and vulnerable settings

Shaw, A.; N. O'Brien, K. Flott, et al. (2021) CC

J Glob Health 2021;11:03082.

Building an effective health workforce through in-service training delivered by regional training hubs: lessons from kenya

Milo P., Karutu C., Abwao P., Mbaabu S., Munene I. IntraHealth International (2017) C1

For IST to be effective there is need for utilization of multiple techniques that will lead to transfer of competences (Bluestone et al. 2013). Learning settings should be selected to support relevant and realistic practice so as to increase the eff ... more

Risk negotiation: a framework for One Health risk analysis

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

The world faces global health risks that need to be effectively addressed in integrated, participatory effort

The Lancet Global Health Commission on financing primary health care: putting people at the centre

Hanson C.; Brikci N.; Erlangga D. et al. The Lancet (2022) CC

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the need for well-functioning primary health care (PHC) into sharp focus. PHC is the best platform for providing basic h ... more