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2022 Global Hunger Index: Food systems transformation and local governance -Synopsis

Concern Worldwide; Welthungerhilfe e.V. (2022) C2

This is the seventeenth annual publication of the Global Hunger Index (GHI), a report jointly published by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe. The 2022 Global Hunger Index (GHI) brings us face to face with a grim reality. The toxic cocktail of conflict, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemi ... more

Humanitarian responses by local actors: Lessons learned from managing the transit of migrants and refugees through Croatia

Larsen, M., Demir, E. and Horvat, M. (2016) C3

How do local authorities and humanitarian agencies collaborate when refugees are in transit? An IIED-supported research project is looking at the transit refugee response in Croatia.

Guidance on mainstreaming biodiversity for nutrition and health

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

This report aims to support countries in the necessary transition toward healthier, more sustainable diets by integrating biodiversity in food-based interventions to support nutrition and health. It is intended to help guide decision-makers in the health, nutrition and other sectors, to: Consider ... the important role of biodiversity in food systems for the development of integrated interventions to support healthy, diverse and sustainable diets; To focus investments and country support for more comprehensive, coordinated and cross-cutting public health and nutrition projects and policies; and To strengthen the resilience of food systems, health systems, and societies, each of which are each increasingly compromised by widespread ecological degradation, biodiversity loss and climate change. Biodiversity at every level (genetic, species and ecosystem level) is a foundational pillar for food security, nutrition, and dietary quality. It is the basic source of variety in essential foods, nutrients, vitamins and minerals, and medicines, and underpins life-sustaining ecosystem services. It is a core environmental determinant of health, often a vital ingredient of healthy nutritional outcomes and livelihoods, gender equality, social equity, and other health determinants. Biodiversity can play a more prominent role in planning for nutritional outcomes in various ways, e.g. by facilitating the production of nutritious fruits and plant products, sustaining livelihoods through more efficient production and increasing the diversity of products available in markets. This Guidance presents and expands on six core building blocks for mainstreaming biodiversity for nutrition and health: Cross-sectoral knowledge development and knowledge co-production; Enabling environments; Integration; Conservation and the wider use of biodiversity; Education and awareness-raising; Monitoring and evaluation; This WHO report builds on an unprecedented opportunity to mainstream biodiversity in order to support healthy and sustainable diets, and offers the necessary technical guidance to catalyze and support a transformation of the global food system and transition to healthier, more sustainable diets. more

The Global State of Harm Reduction 2016

K. Stone; G. Sander Harm Reduction International (2016) C2

WHO country cooperation strategy 2014-2018, Myanmar

World Health Organization (WHO), Country Office for Myanmar (2014) C_WHO

The strategic priorities of the CCS 2014–2018 are:
(1) Strengthening the health system.
(2) Enhancing the achievement of communicable disease control targets.
(3) Controlling the growth of the noncommunicable disease burden.
(4) Promoting health throughout the life course.
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BEST PRACTICES IN INCLUSIVE EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES

Lynn Losert USAIDE&E (2010) C2

Application for Program Design in the Europe and Eurasia Region

Guidelines for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Leprosy
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World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

The Guidelines for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Leprosy provide state-of-the-art knowledge and evidence on leprosy diagnosis, treatment and prevention based on a public health approach in endemic countries. The target audience of this document includes policy-makers in leprosy or infec ... more

Global mortality of snakebite envenoming between 1990 and 2019

Nature Communications (2022) CC

Snakebite envenoming affects millions of people worldwide annually and is a significant source of mortality. Preventing and treating the problem is complex and requires collaboration among the fields of public health, medicine, ecology, and laboratory science. After being removed from the category A ... more

Beyond Pandemics: A Whole-of-Society Approach to Disaster Preparedness

Steve Aldrich, et al. Towards a Safer World; USAID; Prevent Project; WHO; et al. (2011)

Changing food systems and infectious disease risks in low-income and middle-income countries

Waage, J.; D. Grace; E.M. Févre; et al. The Lancet Planetary Health (2022) CC

Lancet Planet Health 2022;6: e760–68 The emergence of COVID-19 has drawn the attention of health researchers sharply back to the role that food systems can play in generating human disease burden. But emerging pandemic threats are just one dimension of the complex relationship between agriculture ... more

Marriage and Fertility Dynamics: The Influence of Marriage Age on the Timing of First Birth and Birth Spacing

Kerry L.D. MacQuarrie ICF International (2016) C1

DHS ANALYTICAL STUDIES 56 Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines

Indonesia Health Profile 2015 (Part 2/2)

Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia (2016) C1

Health, rights and drugs - Harm reduction, decriminalization, and zero discrimination for people who use drugs

UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS) (2019) C2

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Worldwide: A Concise Systematic Review of Vaccine Acceptance Rates

Sallam, M. (2021) CC

The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security: 2021

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2021) C2

The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security: 2021 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Survey of the Quality of Selected Antimalarial Medicines Circulating in Six Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa
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World Health Organization WHO (2011) C_WHO

The survey aimed at evaluating the quality of selected antimalarials in six countries of sub-Saharan Africa (Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and the United Republic of Tanzania). These countries have been supported by WHO to strengthen their regulatory controls o ... more