The Lancet Global Health: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30098-5
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The Lancet Global Health, June 11, 2019DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30250-5
Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 7 million people who campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all.
Our vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights
enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. We ...are independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion and are funded mainly by our membership and public donations.
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This is the first global report on epilepsy summarizing the available evidence on the burden of epilepsy and the public health response required at global, regional and national levels.
The reports highlights major gaps in awareness, diagnosis, treatment, and health policies through a series of a...ppalling numbers. With around 50 million people affected worldwide, epilepsy is one of the most common and serious brain disorders. Nearly 80% of people with epilepsy live in low-income and middle-income countries
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This guideline provides global, evidence-informed recommendations on a number of specific issues related to the management of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children, including in the context of HIV.
UNAIDS/WHO Working Group on Global HIV/AIDS and STI Surveillance
Ghana is attracting global attention for efforts to provide health insurance to all citizens through the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). With the program’s strong emphasis on maternal and child health, an expectation of the program is that members will have increased use of relevant servi...ces. The NHIS does appear to enable pregnant women to access services and allow caregivers to seek care early for sick children, but both the quantitative and qualitative assessments also indicated that the poor and least educated were less likely to have insurance than their wealthier and more educated counterparts.
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WHO REPORT ON THE GLOBAL TOBACCO EPIDEMIC, 2017
To complement the Global Strategy progress reporting, this report provides a detailed look at country leadership and action toward the Every Newborn National Milestones by 2020. Countries have taken the initiative to show the way forward and have demonstrated significant progress. As part of monitor...ing this progress, countries have adopted the Every Newborn Tracking Tool. This report presents a compilation of the data collated by the Every Newborn Tracking Tool in 2016, when 51 countries adopted the tool; it also spotlights examples of specific country activity for each National Milestone. Finally, Global Milestones for 2020 were part of the Every Newborn Action Plan to guide global and regional work in support of country efforts and this report highlights relevant progress towards those Global Milestones.
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The achievable imperative for global progress
UNICEF's global work on statistics and monitoring the situation of children & women
HelpAge International is a global network of organisations promoting the right of all older people to lead dignified, healthy and secure lives. Convite is a humanitarian, independent, nonprofit, non-governmental organisation that works to guarantee and promote social, economic and cultural rights ac...ross Venezuela and is a new member of the HelpAge Global Network. Convite provides direct support to older people, as well as assisting the National Committee of the Pensioned and Retired of Venezuela as part of the Latin American Democracy Network. One of the organisation’s main objectives is to the raise the profile of the crisis in the country internationally.
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The Lancet Global health vol.5 e649–e650, July 2017
The Lancet Global Health, Vol.1 (2013) Issue 4 pp e180-181
Contents
305 Dracunculiasis eradication: global surveillance summary, 2017
Country statistics and global health estimates by WHO and UN partners | For more information visit the Global Health Observatory (http://www.who.int/gho/en/)
The handbook Global edition
The integrated Global Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD)
A all for global Action. The Oral Health Atlas. Second edition
Antimicrobial resistance is a global crisis that threatens a century of progress in health and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. There is no time to wait. Unless the world acts urgently, antimicrobial resistance will have disastrous impact within a generation.