An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems
As more frequent droughts and floods threaten the global food supply, humans are increasing their demands on water and land,... The New York Times reports.
Data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report:
• 500 million people are living in areas that are becoming desert.
• Soil is depleted at 10X-100X the rate it’s being formed.
• More than 10% of the global population is undernourished.
Major threats include the risk of “multi-breadbasket failure”—simultaneous food crises on several continents—and migration triggered by food shortages.
Good News/Bad News: Catastrophe can be avoided, but it would require massive changes to agriculture, food systems and behavior.
A Key Action: Eat less meat. Cattle production is driving deforestation, consuming huge amounts of water, generating methane and causing other impacts, notes Nature.
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The community engagement hub is a platform for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, designed to help us put communities at the heart of what we do.
The hub offers a range of learning materials, tools and guidance to support you to mainstream community engagement and accountabili...ty within your work.
It also offers a place to exchange ideas, share advice or connect with others. Together, we can learn best practice from the active community of Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers committed to integrating communication and participation throughout our work
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As of June 2019, the number of Venezuelans leaving their country reached 4 million, with Colombia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Brazil hosting the vast majority of Venezuelans in Latin America. The end of the first half of the year was marked by the announcement of tighter immigration measures in Peru ...and Chile, which triggered a significant peak in flows from Venezuela entering Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. In response to this, UNICEF Country Offices activated contingency measures and capacities for registration and provision of services were rapidly increased, in coordination with relevant authorities, to face the increased demand.
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This report used the results of the Tracker’s first two years to examine the general trends of conflict in North and South Kivu, the main factors contributing to the violence, and the broader challenges for peacekeeping efforts.
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Accessed: 27.08.2019
Esta guía está enfocada en emitir recomendaciones para el diagnóstico y el tratamiento de la enfermedad de Chagas, como infección por Trypanosoma cruzi, agente protozoario de una parasitosis sistémica. Metodología: La presente guía de práctica clínica fue confeccionada siguiendo los método...s de elaboración de guías de la OMS (5). De forma general, se conformó un grupo desarrollador multidisciplinario compuesto por expertos temáticos, epidemiólogos, metodólogos y usuarios. Dado que no se identificaron guías susceptibles de ser adaptadas, la guía se desarrolló de novo.
Updated guideline, June 2019
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Updated: 20 July 2019
Fact sheet also available in Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Russian. For other language versions go to: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/zika/en/
Wie Berliner Einrichtungen für geflüchtete Menschen gezielt handeln können
ПЛАНИРОВАНИЕ И МОНИТОРИНГ ПРОГРЕССА НА ПУТИ К ЭЛИМИНАЦИИ
39 examples of field practices, and learnings from 20 countries, for all phases of humanitarian response. The report shows that deliberate and proactive action is required to ensure that persons with disabilities from all constituencies are systematically included and meaningfully participate in DRR... and humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery. It draws lessons from field practices, but does not provide technical guidance. The newly published IASC Guidelines are the reference document to seek in-depth theoretical and technical information.
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Obesity is a global health problem. Its worldwide prevalence has tripled between 1975 and 2016, reaching a prevalence in Chile of 34.4%, according to the National Health Survey 2016-2017. If this condition corresponds to a risk factor or primary disease is a widely discussed issue. It is recognized ...as a disease by the American Medical Association and World Health Organization,
based on its metabolic and hormonal features, such as dysregulation of appetite, abnormal energy balance and endocrine dysfunction, among others. Its main environmental risk factors are the consumption of ultra-processed foods and sedentariness. Preventive measures at the population level are fundamental, emphasizing promotion and prevention using a transdisciplinary approach. The individual approach in the management of obesity should improve the quality of life, avoid early mortality, reduce cardiovascular risk, and reduce the progression to type 2 diabetes and incidence of cancer. Thus, an adequate management and
control of obesity would have a great impact in our society.
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El presente documento tiene la finalidad de ordenar la atención de las niñas y adolescentes embarazadas menores de 15 años de la provincia de Misiones y de integrar el abordaje de los diversos actores que tienen responsabilidad en esta población específica: salud, educación, desarrollo social ...y justicia.
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Este documento recoge elementos y buenas prácticas para la protección de la Salud Mental desde la perspectiva del Kokoronokea, o “cuidado del corazón”, desarrollada en Japón; además de la evidencia de la literatura científica actualizada, las orientaciones y recomendaciones de los organism...os internacionales y fundamentalmente aprendizajes recogidos a partir de las diferentes emergencias que ha debido enfrentar nuestro país.
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Este Manual pretende ser un documento de referencia para el desarrollo de Seguimiento Farmaco-
terapéutico a usuarios que se atiendan en centros de salud ambulatorios del país. Se entrega a los
Químicos Farmacéuticos locales una metodología estandarizada y probada en Chile como base para
el ...desarrollo de este servicio dirigido a usuarios con patologías crónicas, enfocado en la detección
y resolución de problemas de salud asociados al uso de medicamentos. Al mismo tiempo, entrega
herramientas para la implementación del servicio y su buen funcionamiento, junto con dar énfasis
en la importancia de la relación con el equipo de salud, buscando una mejor calidad de vida y cum-
plimiento de objetivos terapéuticos en los usuarios.
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PROGRAMA NACIONAL DE EPILEPSIA
2019-2020
Indicadores que reflejan la situación de salud de los niños, niñas y adolescentes en la Argentina