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Chemicals of public health concern in the African Region and their management: Regional Assessment Report

World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa (2014)

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The Impact of Tuberculosis among Immigrants: Epidemiology and Strategies of Control in High-Income Countries—Current Data and Literature Review

C. Contini, M. Maritari, M. die Nuzzo, et al. INTECH (2017) CC

World's largest Science, Technology & Medicine Open Access book publisher Chapter 7 from the book People's Movements in the 21st Century - Risks, Challenges and Benefits

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Differentials of Early Teenage Pregnancy in Ethiopia, 2000, and 2005.

Ayele, Wubegzier Mekonnen ICF International (2013) C2

DHS Working Papers No. 90.

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A Mental Health Training Program for Community Health Workers in India: Impact on Knowledge and Attitudes

Armstrong, G.; et al. (2011) CC

International Journal of Mental Health Systems2011,5:17http://www.ijmhs.com/content/5/1/17

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Coordinated public health surveillance between points of entry and national health surveillance systems

World Health Organization (2014)

Advising principles. The purpose of this document is to support competent authorities in charge of IHR implementation to improve national capacities for the prevention, detection and control of events, by strengthening communications and coordination between points of entry and the national health s... more

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Mental illness in the Western Cape Province, South Africa: A review of the burden of disease and healthcare interventions

Jacob, N. (2018) CC

SAMJ Review Vol. 108 No.3

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Singing to the Lions. A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Violence in Our Lives
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Brakarsh, J.; L. Steinitz Catholic Relief Services CRS (2018) CC

Singing to the Lions is a free training package (facilitator’s guide, supplement and video) by CRS, that is designed to help children and youth lessen the impact of violence and abuse in their lives. The main component is a three-day workshop where participants learn skills that can help them tran... more

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Protect the Progress: Rise, Refocus, Recover - 2020 Progress Report on the Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030)

UNICEF, World Health Organisation (2020) C_WHO

Conflict, climate crisis and COVID-19 pose great threats to the health of women and children.

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Averting a lost COVID generation: A six-point plan to respond, recover and reimagine a post-pandemic world for every child

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2020) C_UNICEF

The report finds that, as of 3 November, in 87 countries with age-disaggregated data, children and adolescents under 20 years of age accounted for 1 in 9 of COVID-19 infections, or 11 per cent of the 25.7 million infections reported by these countries. More reliable, age-disaggregated data on infect... more

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Broader health impacts of vertical responses to COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries

Tabitha Hrynick, T.; S. Ripoll and S. Carter Social Science in Humanitarian Action (2021) C1

This paper reviews the effects of vertical responses to COVID-19 on health systems, services, and people’s access to and use of them in LMICs, where historic and ongoing under-investments heighten vulnerability to a multiplicity of health threats. We use the term ‘vertical response’ to describ... more

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Safety surveillance of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnant and breastfeeding women

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

COVID-19 Vaccines: 1 Safety Surveillance 2 Manual While there is no indication that pregnant women have an increased susceptibility to infection with SARS-CoV-2, there is evidence that pregnancy may increase the risk of severe illness and mortality from COVID-19 disease in comparison with non-pregn... more

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Legal Guide for the Protection of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants against Forced Evictions

R4V (2021) CC

The right to adequate housing, despite having been recognized by multiple international instruments, continues to be a human right that is consistently violated. Around 2O% of the world's population do not have adequate housing . In Latin America, informal settlements generally lack the conditions r... more

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WHO Guideline on use of ferritin concentrations to assess iron status in individuals and populations

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

This guideline provides global, evidence-informed recommendations on the use of indicators for assessing a population’s iron status and application of the use of ferritin concentrations for monitoring and evaluating iron interventions.

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The Ignored Pandemic: The Dual Crisis of Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19

Oxfam (2021) CC

24 Nov. 2021 Action against gender-based violence being pushed to the outlying margins of the global COVID-19 response A new Oxfam report shows an undeniable increase in gender-based violence (GBV) during the COVID-19 pandemic around the world to which too many governments and donors are not doi... more

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Holding the line: communities as first responders to COVID-19 and emerging health threats

UNAIDS (2022) C_WHO

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Walking into the Eye of the Storm: How the climate crisis is driving child migration and displacement

Clarey, T.; Jiwanji, A.; Selby, S. (2021) CC

Discussions about climate change often focus on the future, but millions of children are experiencing its devastating impacts now. The scale of the crisis is huge, and growing fast. It is children that will bear the brunt of climate change, yet its impact on them is understudied, their voices are no... more

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The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health: A Systematic Descriptive Review

Cianconi, P.; Betrò, S.; Janiri, L. (2020) CC

BackgroundClimate change is one of the great challenges of our time. The consequences of climate change on exposed biological subjects, as well as on vulnerable societies, are a concern for the entire scientific community. Rising temperatures, heat waves, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, fir... more

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The Big Catch-Up: An Essential Immunization Recovery Plan for 2023 and Beyond

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The backsliding of immunization coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with delayed catch-up efforts has resulted in a large and growing immunity gap. There is an urgent need to close this gap, and enable millions of missed children to be vaccinated. The Essential Immunization Recovery Plan... more

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Individual-level data in 680 102 adults, The state of diabetes treatment coverage in 55 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative

Flood, D.; Seiglie, J.A.; Dunn, M.; et al. The Lancet healthy Longevity (2021) C2

Approximately 80% of the 463 million adults worldwide with diabetes live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). A major obstacle to designing evidence-based policies to improve diabetes outcomes in LMICs is the scarce availability of nationally representative data on the current patterns... more

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Global report on diabetes 1. Diabetes Mellitus – epidemiology. 2. Diabetes Mellitus – prevention and control. 3. Diabetes, Gestational. 4. Chronic Disease

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Diabetes is a serious, chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin (a hormone that regulates blood sugar, or glucose), or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. Diabetes is an important public health problem, one of four priority noncom... more

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