Summary Findings and Recommendations
On Zero Discrimination Day and as part of the global movement for equality for women and girls, UNAIDS is highlighting seven areas where discrimination against women and girls persists, raising awareness and calling for change.
Eastern Europe and Eurasia: A Comparative Report
Accessed: 29.09.2019
South Africa has a long history of community health workers (CHWs). It has been a journey that has required balancing constrained resources and competing priorities. CHWs form a bridge between communities and healthcare service provision within health facilities and act as the cornerstone of South A...frica’s Ward-Based Primary Healthcare Outreach Teams. This study aimed to document the CHW policy implementation landscape across six provinces in South Africa and explore the reasons for local adaptation of CHW models and to identify potential barriers and facilitators to implementation of the revised framework to help guide and inform future planning.
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Planetary Health needs frequent monitoring of global environmental changes and global land cover and land use - Power Point presentation
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Background: The impacts of air pollutants on health range from short-term health impairments to hospital admissions
and deaths. Climate change is leading to an increase in air pollution.
Der Artikel beschreibt wie sich die Isolation der Familien auf engstem Raum, die Fremdbestimmung und die massive Unterversorgung psychisch erkrankter Personen auf den Gesundheitszustand von Kindern auswirkt.
Global AIDS Update 2018
Closing Gaps
Breaking Barriers
Righting injustices
New England Journal of Medicine 374:1,pp23-32
Event-based surveillance (EBS) is defined as the organized collection, monitoring, assessment and interpretation of mainly unstructured ad hoc information regarding health events or risks, which may represent an acute risk to health. Both indicator-based and event-based surveillance components serve... the early warning and response (EWAR) function of the public health surveillance system. The Framework for Event-based Surveillance offers guidance to public health practitioners seeking to implement EBS at each administrative level in their countries.
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