The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases 2010 projects that noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) will be responsible for over 44 million deaths during the next decade, representing an increase of about 15% since 2010. Most of these deaths will occur in the WHO ...regions of Africa, South-East Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean. In the African Region alone, NCDs will cause around 3.9 million deaths by 2020.
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Background paper prepared for theEducation for All Global Monitoring Report 2012 Youth and skills: Putting education to work
2012/ED/EFA/MRT/PI/15
The INEE Minimum Standards Handbook is the only global tool that articulates the minimum level of educational quality and access in emergencies through to recovery. The Minimum Standards express a commitment that all individuals—children, youth and adults—have a right to education.
There are... different languages available: Arabic, Azerbajan, Bahsa Indonesia, Bengali, Bosnian, Coratian, Serbian, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Krygyz, Nepali, Pashto, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Urdu, Turkish, Vietnamese
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Healthcare Waste Management Toolkit for Global Fund Practitioners and Policy Makers: Part A
Paper commissioned for the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010, Reaching the marginalized
Joining efforts to control two trelated global epidemics.
The World Population Dashboard showcases global population data, including fertility rate, gender parity in school enrolment, information on sexual and reproductive health, and much more. Together, these data shine a light on the health and rights of people around the world, especially women and yo...ung people. The numbers here come from UNFPA and fellow UN agencies, and are updated annually.
Accessed 26 February 2019
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Guidelines
UNAIDS/WHO working group on global HIV/AIDS and STI surveillance
August 2015
HIV strategic information for impact
Arbeitsblätter zum Globalen Klimawandel. Mit den vorliegenden Materialien können die SchülerInnen die Verknüpfung der Themenkomplexe Ernährungssicherheit und globaler Klimawandel erarbeiten. Diese in einer sich zunehmend globalisierenden und ständig wandelnden Welt verstärke...nden Zusammenhänge werden regional differenziert und vertiefend betrachtet
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Mental health problems represent the greatest global burden of disease among children and adolescents. There is, however, lack of policy development and implementation for child and adolescent mental health (CAMH), particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where children and adolescen...ts represent up to 50% of populations. South Africa, an upper-middle income country is often regarded as advanced in health and social policy-making and implementation in comparison to other LMICs. It is, however, not clear whether this is the case for CAMH.
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Healthcare Waste Management Toolkit for Global Fund Practitioners and Policy Makers. Part B
TECHNICAL NOTE III
WHO REPORT ON THE GLOBAL TOBACCO EPIDEMIC, 2017
This online training is based on the Global Laboratory Initiative’s “Guide for providing technical support to TB laboratories in low- and middle-income countries”. This guide is intended to familiarize those who are providing technical assistance to TB laboratories in low- and middle-income co...untries with WHO recommendations and international best practices.
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HelpAge International es una red global de organizaciones que promueve el derecho de todas las personas mayores a llevar vidas dignas, saludables y seguras. Convite es una organización humanitaria, independiente, sin ánimo de lucro y no gubernamental que trabaja para garantizar y promover los dere...chos sociales, económicos y culturales en toda Venezuela y es un nuevo miembro de la Red Global HelpAge. Convite brinda apoyo directo a las personas mayores, además de ayudar al Comité Nacional de Jubilados y Pensionistas de Venezuela como parte de la Red Latinoamericana de Democracia. Uno de los principales objetivos de la organización es elevar el perfil de la crisis internacional en el país.
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Internally displaced children are twice invisible in global and national data. First, because internally displaced people (IDPs) of all ages are often unaccounted for. Second, because age-disaggregation of any kind of data is limited, and even more so for IDPs.
Planning adequate responses to meet... the needs of internally displaced children, however, requires having at least a sense of how many there are and where they are. This report presents the first estimates of the number of children living in internal displacement triggered by conflict and violence at the global, regional and national levels.
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Background Paper prepared for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
The aim of this paper is to help bring voluntary standards into the toolbox of disaster risk reduction, including both by encouraging their use by business and by enhancing their role in legislation and ...regulatory practice.
- Authorities can build awareness for standards in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), by facilitating access to relevant standards, encouraging education on DRR-related standards and involving the standardization community.
- Standards need to be sustained by a powerful infrastructure that allows for reliable inspections, audits and precise measurements to be conducted by skilled professionals.
- Risk management best practice needs to embed, as emdodies in standards, more fully in regulatory frameworks in sectors that are relevant.
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India contributes to 16% of the global maternal deaths and around 27% of global newborn deaths. Reducing the burden of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity in urban poor settings today requires an expansion of effective Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) care services and lowering the barrier...s to the use of such services, especially availability and accessibility.
For designing sensitive, responsive and relevant urban health policy and action, it is important for planners and programme managers to understand the context with regard to current systems and mechanisms, potential organisations and best practices.
In order to adres this need, Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives programme commissioned a study that reviewed the literature and looked at available secondary data on MNH in urban poor settings.
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Anaemia is a serious global public health problem that particularly affects young children, menstruating adolescent girls and women, and pregnant and postpartum women. It is a condition in which the number of red blood cells or the haemoglobin concentration within them is lower than normal, affectin...g the blood’s ability to carry oxygen to the body’s tissues.
To reliably monitor the prevalence of anaemia at a population level, it is vital to measure the haemoglobin concentration in an accurate and precise way. In large-scale surveys, however, haemoglobin is most commonly measured using single-drop capillary blood specimens in point-of-care devices. Emerging evidence suggests that the use of single-drop capillary blood can introduce random and/or systematic errors, which may lead to inaccurate estimates, complicating effective anaemia programming.
This technical brief describes the current best practices for haemoglobin measurement, providing guidance to help plan or implement field surveys to assess anaemia at a population level. Continuing work to review emerging evidence is led by members of the WHO-UNICEF Technical Expert Advisory group on nutrition Monitoring (TEAM).
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At the global, national, and regional levels, there are several guidelines and guides regarding the preparedness, prevention, surveillance, and control of diseases caused by respiratory viruses; most initiatives focus on specific virus events or cases. During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ...pandemic, it has been found that even when there are strategies designed and planned for pandemics, it is necessary to strengthen and improve them. Planning for imminent threats, including those posed by respiratory viruses, contributes to strengthening the core capacities of the International Health Regulations (IHR [2005])
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The world faces global health risks that need to be effectively addressed in integrated, participatory effort