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From Research to Action: Advancing Prevention and Response to Violence against Children: Report on the Global Violence against Children Meeting

UNICF (2014)

Growing evidence indicates that large proportions of children around the world experience physical, sexual and emotional violence every year, with enormous implications for human rights, public health and economic and social development.1 Over the last five years, national governments and Together f... more

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Development and Introduction of the Filariasis Test Strip: A New Diagnostic Test for the Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis

Pantelias, A.; King, J.D.; Lammie, P.; Weil, G.J. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2022) CC

Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 106 (Suppl 5), 2022, pp. 56–60. Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a parasitic disease that is a major cause of chronic disability in the developing world. According to the 2021–2030 road map for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) published by the World Health Organization (WHO... more

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Assessing national capacity for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases: report of the 2010 global survey

World Health Organization (2012) C_WHO

This report reviews the current situation in relation to national capacity to address NCDs and the progress made at country level over the past decade. It highlights that, while progress is being made, there is still much work to be done to create the infrastructure, policies, surveillance and healt... more

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Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Mental Health: The Major Questions for Future Research in Global Mental Health

Kleinmann, A. (2011) C2

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Examining Current Intelligence on COVID-19 and Infection Prevention & Control Strategies in Health Settings - a global analysis

Saiful Islam M. , Mizanur Rahman K., Sun Y., et al. University of Cambridge (2020) CC

In the current absence of vaccine for COVID-19, public health response target breaking the chain of infection by focusing on the mode of transmission. This paper summarizes current evidence-base around the transmission dynamics, pathogenic, and clinical features of COVID-19, to critically identify i... more

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Engagement with health in national climate change commitments under the Paris Agreement: a global mixed-methods analysis of the nationally determined contributions

Dasandi, N.; Graham H., Lampard P., et al. (2021) C1

Lancet Planet Health 2021; 5: e93–101

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The burden of chronic respiratory diseases and their heterogeneity across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2016

India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative CRD Collaborators (2018) CC

Lancet Glob Health 2018 Published Online September 12, 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30409-1

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Worldwide trends in the burden of asthma symptoms in school-aged children: Global Asthma Network Phase I cross-sectional study

Asher, I.; Rutter, C.E.; Bissell, K. et al. The Lancet (2021) CC

Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children globally. The Global Asthma Network (GAN) Phase I study aimed to determine if the worldwide burden of asthma symptoms is changing. This updated cross-sectional study used the same methods as the International study of Asthma and Allergies in Chi...ldhood (ISAAC) Phase III. Asthma symptoms were assessed from centres that completed GAN Phase I and ISAAC Phase I (1993–95), ISAAC Phase III (2001–03), or both. We included individuals from two age groups (children aged 6–7 years and adolescents aged 13–14 years) who self-completed written questionnaires at school. We estimated the 10-year rate of change in prevalence of current wheeze, severe asthma symptoms, ever having asthma, exercise wheeze, and night cough (defined by core questions in the questionnaire) for each centre, and we estimated trends across world regions and income levels using mixed-effects linear regression models with region and country income level as confounders. Overall, 119 795 participants from 27 centres in 14 countries were included: 74 361 adolescents (response rate 90%) and 45 434 children (response rate 79%). About one in ten individuals of both age groups had wheeze in the preceding year, of whom almost half had severe symptoms. Most centres showed a change in prevalence of 2 SE or more between ISAAC Phase III to GAN Phase I. Over the 27-year period (1993–2020), adolescents showed a significant decrease in percentage point prevalence per decade in severe asthma symptoms (–0·37, 95% CI –0·69 to –0·04) and an increase in ever having asthma (1·25, 0·67 to 1·83) and night cough (4·25, 3·06 to 5·44), which was also found in children (3·21, 1·80 to 4·62). The prevalence of current wheeze decreased in low-income countries (–1·37, –2·47 to –0·27], in children and –1·67, –2·70 to –0·64, in adolescents) and increased in lower-middle-income countries (1·99, 0·33 to 3·66, in children and 1·69, 0·13 to 3·25, in adolescents), but it was stable in upper-middle-income and high-income countries. Trends in prevalence and severity of asthma symptoms over the past three decades varied by age group, country income, region, and centre. The high worldwide burden of severe asthma symptoms would be mitigated by enabling access to effective therapies for asthma. more

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Indicateurs Clés par Catégorie et leurs critères de Référence proposés par le groupe global de responsabilité sectorielle pour la santé

World Health Organization (2010)

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Leaving no one behind in the Covid-19 Pandemic: a call for urgent global action to include migrants & refugees in the Covid-19 response

Lancet Migration (2020) C2

Accessed: 27.04.2020 Leaving no one behind in the Covid-19 Pandemic: a call for urgent global action to include migrants & refugees in the Covid-19 response People on the move, whether they are economic migrants or forcibly displaced persons such asylum seekers, refugees, and internally displa... more

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Integrating HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis screening and treatment through the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health platform to reach global elimination targets

J. Woodring; H.d Sobel; Y. Takashima; et al. World Health Organization (Western Pacific Region) (2017) C_WHO

WPSAR Vol 8, No 4, 2017 | doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2017.8.3.005 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.v8i4.564

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Technical meeting to support Ebola affected countries on the recovery and resilience plans with a focus on GAVI, the Global Fund and other partners' funding - Report, 9-11 June 2015

World Health Organization (2015)

The objectives of the meeting were to agree on coordinated and aligned support to the 3 countries’ national health recovery plans (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone); to identify cross-cutting areas and opportunities for integration; to identify ways to improve implementation modalities; and to identi... more

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Taking Stock of Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings: 2012-2014 Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises' Global Review

Chen Reis, Ruwan Ratnayake (2015)

Conflict and Health, vol. 9 Supplment 1. Free download of all articles at: http://www.conflictandhealth.com/supplements/9/S1 The IAWG has undertaken an updated review to identify services, quantify progress, document gaps and determine future directions for programs, advocacy and funding prioriti... more

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The changing patterns of cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors in the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2016

India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative CVD Collaborators (2018) CC

Lancet Glob Health 2018 Published Online September 12, 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30407-8

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Update 80: What we know about new COVID-19 Variants of Concern - the latest on the global situation & Omicron BA.4/5

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

While COVID-19 virus continues to circulate and evolve, new variants are constantly emerging. Most of the current COVID-19 cases are driven by the circulation of the BA.5 subvariant of Omicron. The COVID-19 vaccines are being updated with Omicron variants to provide broader immunity against circulat... more

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Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study

GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborator The Lancet (2020) CC

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Access to hepatitis C testing and treatment for people who inject drugs and people in prisons – a global perspective. Policy brief

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

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Regional indicators to measure progress towards zero discrimination — Additional guidance for Latin American and Caribbean countries — Global AIDS Monitoring 2023

UNAIDS (2022) C_WHO

All countries in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region are expected to report on these indicators for the year 2022.

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Burden of diabetes mellitus type 2 and its risk factors in Asia from 1990 to 2019: Updates from the 2019 Global Burden of Disease study

Khazaei, Z.; Momenabadi, V.; Badrizadeh, A.; et al. Research Square (2023) CC

The mounting burden of type 2 diabetes is a major concern in healthcare systems worldwide. The purpose of this study is to investigate the trend of type 2 diabetes from 1990 to 2019 in Asia.

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Nations within a nation: variations in epidemiological transition across the states of India, 1990–2016 in the Global Burden of Disease Study

India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Collaborators (2017) CC

Lancet 2017; 390: 2437–60