A reliable one-stop shop for Zika prevention and preparedness materials. ZCN curates essential, evidence-based tools and resources to help health and development professionals minimize the spread of Zika and related negative pregnancy outcomes
El Sistema Nacional de Información para la Prevención y Atención de Desastres - SINPAD, está soportada por un sistema informático bajo la plataforma Internet, el mismo que está compuesto por una serie de servicios informáticos con miras a que la información de la Prevención y atención de D...esastres en toda su amplitud, sea registrada, mantenida, consultada y utilizada por todas las Intituciones sean éstas Públicas o Privadas, así como por la ciudadanía en general, interactuando activamente con los integrantes del Sistema Nacional de Defensa Civil - SINADECI para la eficiente y eficaz Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres.
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Our World in Data is an online publication that shows how living conditions are changing. The aim is to give a global overview and to show changes over the very long run, so that we can see where we are coming from and where we are today. We cover a wide range of topics across many academic discipli...nes: Trends in health, food provision, the growth and distribution of incomes, violence, rights, wars, culture, energy use, education, and environmental changes are empirically analyzed and visualized in this web publication. For each topic the quality of the data is discussed and, by pointing the visitor to the sources, this website is also a database of databases. Covering all of these aspects in one resource makes it possible to understand how the observed long-run trends are interlinked.
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BMJ is offering a range of free online resources to support researchers, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to understand and respond to the global health emergency caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
The free online resources are aimed at healthcare professionals locate...d in China and across the world, to help keep them updated with the latest developments and guidance
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In order to assist those who are undergoing stress because of Corona Virus crisis, an online Help Desk was launched at Catholic Health Association of India, Directorate, Hyderabad on 26th February.
Billion Lives, a social impact tech company based in Bangalore, India, headed by Mr. John Santhosh,... developed the necessary platform and tech solutions for coronacare.life. People can come to the site for live chats, audio and video calls, apart from communicating through mails. The site www.coronacare.life is active and accessible. There are about 30 professionals from social work and psychology background ready to take calls and deal with fears and anxieties about corona virus crisis. Doctors are ready to answer medical queries.
Multilingual Support: When it comes to language you don't have to worry about being on the wrong page we have multilingual support.
A panel of social workers, psychologists & counselors who are waiting to speak to you.
24X7 Availability
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Cochrane provides high-quality, relevant, and up-to-date synthesized research evidence to inform health decisions. This page highlights content relating to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the various related activities that Cochrane is undertaking in response.
They will be continually add...ing updates and additions to this page. Sections include information and resources for:
Public, patients, and carers
Healthcare workers
Researchers
Policy and guideline developers
The Cochrane Community
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This portal holds a vast collection of guidelines, tools, papers and lessons learnt from across and beyond the ALNAP Membership which are relevant to responding to the current COVID-19 pandemic. The portal is updated on a regular basis and aims to include all resources published on our Member organi...sations’ webpages relevant to the planning, adaptation and delivery of humanitarian activities in response to COVID-19.
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COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Sameeksha (Hindi; review) compiles recent key IPC resources on COVID from scientific journals, WHO guidelines, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare /Government of India guidelines, and trainings and IPC resources. The intended target audience for this inclu...des clinical and public health professionals in both public and private sector in India.
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With the Syria Crisis now in its eighth year, civilians continue to bear the brunt of a conflict marked by unparalleled suffering, destruction and disregard for human life. 13.1 million people require humanitarian assistance, including over 2 million people in hard-to-reach areas, where they are exp...osed to grave protection threats.
Over half of the population has been forced from their homes, and many people have been displaced multiple times. Children and youth comprise more than half of the displaced, as well as half of those in need of humanitarian assistance. Parties to the conflict act with impunity, committing violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.
On this resource page you can download situation reports, maps, infographics and documents
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Resource Page for People At Risk For or With HIV and for Clinicians
The interactive report calls for ramped-up investment in health infrastructure worldwide to address yawning resource gaps in vaccine research, development, and manufacturing capacity.
Key findings:
• The pandemic pushed an additional 31 million people into “dire poverty” and backpedaled pro...gress toward eliminating poverty by 4 years
• Global rates for routine childhood vaccinations, such as malaria, fell last year by 7%, to levels not seen since 2005.
You can find a lot of excellent information and graphics
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Rumors emerge when people feel left out of the discussion, when their questions cannot be answered by authorities or their doubts are dismissed by official sources. But also, rumors present an opportunity – to understand the questions, concerns and anxieties communities may have about this pandemi...c.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Internews has followed its rumour-tracking methodology, including social media listening, to identify those rumors that are posing additional risks to the communities, ensuring content is collected from diverse demographic groups.
Internews produces and distributes rumor bulletins through its Rooted in Trust and its H2H (humanitarian-to-humanitarian network) projects. Rooted in Trust has collected close to 6,000 rumors from seven countries in 12 languages, and collects data across seven major social media platforms and a wide range of feedback collection channels. H2H is a collaboration to support responders at every level by analyzing information gaps and addressing them with evidence-based content in relevant languages, formats, and channels.
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the one-stop shop online resource for cancer planners. Here you can find a library of resouces for develop a national cancre control plan, statistics, stay updated, technical assistance and you can discover on an interactive map cancer and NCD plans, as well as country profiles
On this page we provide a list of charts, data and resources that you may find useful to understand the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Climate Box is a comprehensive learning toolkit that educates school children about climate change and inspires them to take action.
Designed to make learning fun and interesting, the Climate Box provides up-to-date information on climate change with a range of creative tasks, games, quizzes and ...experiments, as well as resources for teachers/educators.
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Grand Challenges - Planetary Health- This guide highlights a range of resources to explore solutions to the challenges of rising global temperature, and increased industrial effluences damaging the environment and impacting human health.
Each toolkit includes science explainers and curated resources to help understand extreme events—from their links to our warming climate to their local impacts.
The platform mapping climate risks and finding solutions
WHO is responding as Pakistan is affected by massive monsoon rainfall and unprecedented levels of flooding and landslides. Damage to health infrastructure, shortages of health workers, and limited health supplies are disrupting health services. Significant public health threats include the spread of... water- and vector-borne diseases, with outbreaks of diarrheal diseases, skin infections, respiratory tract infections, malaria, dengue, injuries, and more. With health services reduced, the management of non-communicable diseases are also affected. In addition, the loss of crops and livestock will have a significant impact on the nutrition and health of many communities who depend on these resources.
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Chagas disease (CD), caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, affects ~6–7 million people worldwide. Significant limitations still exist in our understanding of CD. Harnessing individual participant data (IPD) from studies could support more in-depth analyses to address
the many outstanding rese...arch questions. This systematic review aims to describe the characteristics and treatment practices of clinical studies in CD and assess the breadth and
availability of research data for the potential establishment of a data-sharing platform.
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