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The European Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020
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World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Europe (2015) C_WHO

Mental disorders are one of the top public health challenges in the WHO European Region, affecting about 25% of the population every year. In all countries, mental health problems are much more prevalent among the people who are most deprived. The WHO European Region therefore faces diverse challeng... more

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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health | Sustainable Development Goals - Resource Centre

Whitmee S., Haines A. et al. (2015) C2

By almost any measure, human health is better now than at any time in history. Life expectancy has soared from 47 years in 1950–1955, to 69 years in 2005–2010, and death rates in children younger than 5 years of age have decreased substantially, from 214 per thousand live births in 1950–1955, ... more

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Improving the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents: guidance on scheduled child and adolescent well-care visits

UN Children's Fund UNICEF; World Health Organization WHO (2024) CC

To survive and thrive, children and adolescents need good health, adequate nutrition, security, safety and a supportive clean environment, opportunities for early learning and education, responsive relationships and connectedness, and opportunities for personal autonomy and self-realization. To prom... more

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Learning from practice: case studies of health in strategic environmental assessment and environmental impact assessment across the WHO European Region

World Health Organization WHO World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Health is routinely considered in strategic environmental assessment (‎SEA)‎ and environmental impact assessment (‎EIA)‎, following requirements of European Union directives and the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Trans... more

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Risk Communication and Community Engagement Considerations: Ebola Response in Democratic Republic of the Congo

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

Overview: Risk communication and community engagement are essential for any disease outbreak response. This is particularly critical during outbreaks of Ebola which may create fear in the public and frontline responders alike due to severe presentation of symptoms, misunderstanding of the causes of ... more

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A Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World

Pope Paul VI St. Bartholomew Bulletion (2012) C2

The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ. As a community composed of men, united in Christ, they are led by the Holy Spirit toward the Kingdom of their Father. They have welcome... more

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Burden sharing or burden shifting? - HIV and TB

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) (2019) C1

MSF provides treatment for HIV and tuberculosis (TB) in more than 20 countries around the world. The report Burden sharing or burden shifting? How the HIV/TB response is being derailed examines the situation in nine countries where MSF runs programmes: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic ... more

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Workplace Pandemic Preparedness. Training Manual
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Ministry of Health Ghana; NADMO Ghana GiZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (2013) C1

A training manual for identifying, assessing, preventing and controlling the risks of pandemics in the workplace. This training manual has been developed for both medical and non-medical personnel who may be called upon to lead emergency response, (eg epidemic outbreak, etc), ensure effective conta... more

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Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems

World Health Organization WHO (2005) C_WHO

1. Provide treatment for mental disorders in primary care 2. Ensure wider accessibility to essential psychotropic drugs 3. Provide care in the community 4. Educate the public 5. Involve communities, families and consumers 6. Establish national policies, programmes and legislation on mental heal... more

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Countering Stigmatization in the Humanitarian Response to COVID-19

InterAction (2024) CC

In most contexts, the social stigma surrounding mental health issues exists because of cultural norms and a lack of understanding of mental health’s complexities and realities, resulting in isolation, increased vulnerability, and lack of support for people with mental health problems. This stig... more

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Quality of stroke guidelines in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Yaria, J.; Gil, A.; Makanjuola, A. et al. Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2021) C_WHO

Objective: To identify gaps in national stroke guidelines that could be bridged to enhance the quality of stroke care services in low- and middle-income countries. Methods: We systematically searched medical databases and websites of medical societies and contacted international organizations. Co... more

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Guidance for country validation of viral hepatitis elimination and path to elimination

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

Building on the 2021 Interim guidance, this second version and update, incorporates the lessons and feedback from the hepatitis pilots that successfully demonstrated the feasibility of measuring hepatitis B and C impact targets to demonstrate elimination, whilst highlighting challenges caused by hig... more

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In Control: A Practical Handbook for Professionals Working in Health Emergencies Internationally RKI

Robert Koch Institut RKI (2023) CC

The greatest risk to persons engaging in international medical emergency response is poor preparation. The In Control handbook hopes to provide a remedy. At the time of writing, we are living through the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a health emergency that disregards physical borders, brin...gs into focus social inequalities and affects people on every continent. This shared challenge requires unprecedented measures and the collaboration of the brightest minds to support global health protection through this crisis and beyond. Healthcare infrastructures have to be strengthened, public health capacities and processes upgraded, medical countermeasures and vaccinations found and psychosocial side-effects treated. Solidarity is the normative order of the day and the human species has to collaborate to face this invisible threat. Hiding and living in fear is not an option in this interconnected world. We have both a responsibility and an opportunity to make substantial contributions to a safer, healthier and more sustainable future for us all. The existence of this handbook is an impressive example of solidarity. Over 50 authors from more than 15 institutes and organisations have come together voluntarily within a very short time to make their expertise available and enable cross-sectoral thinking. Knowledge is bundled, resources are combined, information gaps are filled. The In Control handbook is not a theoretical treatise of possible dangers, but a collection of subject-matter expertise, written by experts and practitioners who have shaped health topics over the past 20 years in the most diverse corners of the world. The Centre for International Health Protection at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is collaborating with its partners and investing heavily in the build-up of operational know-how and capacity to support health crisis response abroad. This is done by preparing and enabling professionals to deploy safely across the world to assist those in need. In Control addresses the multi-faceted challenges of an international deployment. Readers will find not only technical medical information, but also insights into, for example, the fragility of our environment, the cultural differences that influence risk communication or the dilemmas arising from social distancing. Legal principles are highlighted, along with ethical guidance to ensure that our actions and decisions correspond to the highest moral standards. more

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Fiscal Space for Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2020) CC

In sum, the goal is to understand the need to increase fiscal space for health as a prerequisite, but within the framework of efforts to transform the health system. These changes should foster equitable and efficient expenditures and create or strengthen comprehensive integrated health systems with... more

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Persistent Global Acute Malnutrition

Young, H., Marshak, A. Feinstein International Center (2017) C3

A discussion paper on the scope of the problem, its drivers, and strategies for moving forward for policy, practice, and research In many protracted emergencies, the prevalence rates of global acute malnutrition (GAM) regularly exceed the emergency threshold of > 15% of children with acute malnutri... more

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Attraction and Retention of Rural Primary Health-care Workers in the Asia Pacific Region

Liu Xiaoyun; Zhu, Anna; Tang, Shenglan World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia (2018) C_WHO

The Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies is a collaborative partnership which supports and promotes evidence-based health policy making in the Asia Pacific Region. Based in WHO’s Regional Office for South-East Asia, it brings together governments, international agencies, foundat... more

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Parenting programs

D. Haslam; A. Mejia; M. R. Sanders; P. J. de Vries IACAPAP (2016) C2

The importance of growing up in a nurturing and supportive family environment cannot be underestimated. Raising children in a warm, loving environment sets them on a positive developmental trajectory for later life success (Biglan et al, 2012). Conversely, children raised in homes with inconsistent ... more

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Training manual for surveillance of suicide and self-harm in communities via key informants

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

More than 700 000 people lose their life to suicide every year. A core foundation of suicide prevention is the timely registration and regular monitoring of suicide and self-harm. Surveillance data can be used to show important progress towards reaching global targets, such as reducing the suicide r... more

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Global report on neglected tropical diseases 2023

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the global community of countries, partners, donors, technical experts, scientists and field implementation teams continue to work towards the ultimate goal of a world free of the burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). This work is described in the NTD ... more

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WHO Bangladesh Country Cooperation Strategy: 2020–2024

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia (2022) C_WHO

Notable progress has also been made on other key health indicators such as reducing maternal, infant and child deaths and malnutrition, increasing immunization coverage, eliminating infectious diseases such as polio and reducing the incidence of malaria, tuberculosis and diarrhoeal diseases. But ... more

The European Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020 recommended

Workplace Pandemic Preparedness. Training Manual recommended

The European Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020
recommended

Workplace Pandemic Preparedness. Training Manual
recommended