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Atlas of Health and Climate

World Health Organization WHO Word Health Organization (2012) C_WHO

The Atlas of health and climate is a product of this unique collaboration between the meteorological and public health communities. It provides sound scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and major health challenges. These range from diseases of poverty to emergencies... more

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Tuberculosis patient cost surveys: a handbook

Inés Garcia Baena, Andrew Siroka, Amy Collins et al. World Health Organisation (WHO) (2017) C_WHO

This handbook builds on lessons learned from surveys implemented 2015-2017 and advice provided by the Global task force on TB patient cost surveys. It provides a standardized methodology for conducting health facility-based cross-sectional surveys to assess the direct and indirect costs incurred by ... more

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Family Case Management: Family-centered care training for care-providers of children and families living with and affected by HIV

FHI360 (2009) CC

This six-day training is intended for case managers/community health volunteers/field supervisors who help households affected by HIV in India.

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World: 2016-2017 ENSO Overview (As of 5 July 2016)

World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Food Security Cluster (2016) C1

Globally, millions of vulnerable people are experiencing increased hunger and poverty due to droughts, floods, storms and extreme temperature fluctuations as a result of a climatic occurrence: El Niño. This phenomenon is not an individual weather event but a climate pattern which occurs every two t... more

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Determinants of anemia among women and children in Nepal and Pakistan: An analysis of recent national survey data

Harding, Kassandra L.; Aguayo, Victor M. et al. (2017) CC

Maternal Child Nutrition. 2017;e12478
This paper analyzes individual level and household level determinants of anemia among children and women in Nepal and Pakistan. Applying multivariate modified Poisson models to recent national survey data, we find that the prevalence of anemia was significa... more

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Evaluation of Oxfam’s South Sudan Humanitarian Response Using Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Indicator Tool

Featherstone, A. Oxfam (2012) CC

As part of a wider organisational undertaking to better capture and communicate the effectiveness of its work, Oxfam developed an evaluative method to assess the quality of targeted humanitarian responses. This method uses a global humanitarian indicator tool which is intended to enable Oxfam GB to ... more

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Monsoon Emergency Response Update - Rohingya Refugee Crisis, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh (8- 14 August 2018)

Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) (2018) C1

During the reporting period no significant rainfall was recorded in Cox’s Bazar: this past week brought 29 mm of rain in comparison to 115.25 mm for the previous week. As expected, far fewer weather hazard incidents were recorded in the Rohingya camps: 69 individuals (16 HH) were affected by lands... more

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Rwanda 2010: A Dramatic Change in Reproductive Behavior

Westoff, C.F., F. Ngabo, C. Munyanshongore, M.A. Umubyeyi, and E. Kagame Calverton, Maryland, USA: ICF International. (2013) C2

DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 90 - In Rwanda, between 2005 and 2010, there have been radical declines in the desired number of children, actual fertility, and child mortality along with a large increase in contraceptive prevalence. This study reviews trends in some of these measures. Multivariate... more

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Monsoon Emergency Preparedness Response - Cox’s Bazar Rohingya Refugee Crisis (22 - 27 June 2018)

Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) (2018) C1

Update - 27 June 2018
During the reporting week, the monsoon rains brought 252 mm of rainfall compared to 95 mm during the previous week. The downpour caused 65% of the week’s weather-related incidents (i.e. landslides, wind-storms and floods). Three rain gauges were installed in Chakmarkul (... more

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The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census: Thematic Report on Maternal Mortality

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2016) C1

Census Report Volume 4-C
The 2014 Myanmar Census provided the opportunity to measure maternal mortality. The questions on deaths in households during the twelve months prior to the Census were included in the questionnaire, as well as questions necessary to estimate maternal mortality indicator... more

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How COVID-19 is changing the world. Vol.II

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2020) C_UNICEF

The pandemic presents tough choices for governments, local communities, health and school systems, as well as families and businesses: How to re-open safely? How to safeguard people’s lives and protect their livelihoods? Where to allocate scarce resources? How to protect those unable to protect th... more

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The Inequality Virus: Bringing together a world torn apart by coronavirus through a fair, just and sustainable economy

Oxfam (2021) C1

Oxfam’s report found that Covid-19 has the potential to increase economic inequality in almost every country at once, the first time this has happened since records began over a century ago. It sets out how a rigged economy is enabling a super-rich elite to amass wealth in the middle of the worst ... more

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A Case for Increasing Public Investments in Health Raising Public Commitments to Kenya’s Health Sector

David N. and Wanjala P. SPARC (2020) C1

In Kenya, 12.7 percent of sick Kenyans do not seek health care when they are ill with high cost of services being one of the major barriers that accounted for upto 21 percent of those who did not seek care in 2013. Further, 2.6 million Kenyans (6.2 percent) of households were at risk of impoverishme... more

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A People’s Vaccine for Refugees: Ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccines for refugees and other displaced people

Oxfam (2021) C1

For most people in displacement contexts, there are simply not enough vaccines available in the places where they are hosted: 85% of refugees are hosted in lower- and middle-income countries, while in the first six months of this year 85% of vaccines went to wealthy countries; lower- and middle inco... more

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The neglected zoonoses—the case for integrated control and advocacy

Welburn S. C., Beange I. et al (2015) C2

Clinical Microbiology and Infection Volume 21, Issue 5, May 2015, Pages 433-443; The neglected zoonotic diseases (NZDs) have been all but eradicated in wealthier countries, but remain major causes of ill-health and mortality across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This neglect is, in part, a conse... more

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Protecting human health from climate change

World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia (2011) C_WHO

Climate change is a verified, global phenomenon, but its consequences will not be evenly distributed. Developing countries and small island nations will be the most affected. Countries will experience more frequent extreme weather events and resulting changes in water quality and availability, incre... more

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Pollution and health: a progress update
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Fuller, R.; et al. (2022) CC

The Lancet Planetary Health Published:May 17, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00090-0 Every year pollution causes 9 million deaths—1 in every 6 deaths worldwide, according to a Lancet Commission on pollution and health. While the number of deaths caused by household air pollution a... more

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Nigeria: Demographic Health Survey 2018

The DHS Program ICF USAID (2019) C2

The 2018 NDHS is a national sample survey that provides up-to-date information on demographic and health indicators. The sample was selected using a stratified, two-stage cluster design, with enumeration areas (EAs) as the sampling units for the first stage. The second stage was a complete listing o... more

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Sierra Leone – Demographic and Health Survey 2019

The DHS Program ICF (2020) C2

The 2019 SLDHS is a national sample survey that provides up-to-date information on demographic and health indicators. The sample was selected using a stratified, two-stage cluster design, with enumeration areas (EAs) as the sampling units for the first stage. The second stage was a complete listing ... more

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Understanding and controlling asthma in Latin America: A review of recent research informed by the SCAALA programme

Cooper, P. J.; Figueiredo, C. A.; Rodriguez, A.; et al. (2023) CC2

Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease (CRD) worldwide and is estimated to affect 262 million causing significant mortality and morbidity, and has emerged as an important public health problem in many Latin American (LA) countries over the last 30 or so years. LA is a highly diverse r... more

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