Summary of key informant interviews with representatives of organizations providing, funding, or supporting WASH services to refugee populations
The aim of this toolkit is to guide countries on how to best estimate their current burden of dengue by combining existing data from dengue surveillance systems with on-going research efforts to measure the community burden
of dengue.
Healthcare Waste Management Toolkit for Global Fund Practitioners and Policy Makers: Part A
Research Article
PLOS Medicine | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002374 August 8, 2017
EMCDDA Insights - 11
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special education, culture, psychology, education, policy
Assessment of physical disability at the community level is essential for rehabilitation and supply of services. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of physical disability among adults in an urban community in Sri Lanka.
Asthma is the commonest chronic childhood disease and encompasses a spectrum of airway diseases with similar symptoms. Inaccurate diagnosis remains common, especially in younger children, with failure to characterize the different “asthmas.” Children worldwide repeatedly suffer symptoms which se...verely affect their everyday lives. Children die from asthma, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). In many countries, asthma prevalence is rising. Access to effective care and changing environments are hugely variable and may explain the higher morbidity in inner-city children, in LMICs, and in deprived populations in high-income countries. Despite the disease being eminently controllable, morbidity and mortality persist.
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DHS Working Papers No. 119
Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 16, No. 5, May 2010
The report summarizes key global health expenditure patterns and trends, and illustrates the potential of the new database to inform thinking about financing reforms to progress towards UHC, and also raises issues for further research. It analyses the following areas:
An analysis from the perspective of the health sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
Washington, D.C., 2017
We live in a world in which global warming, pollution, social
injustice, inequity and population health fundamentally influence each other. As a result, health and health care can no longer be thought of and practiced in an isolated manner.
PHA 2018; 8(S1): S24–S28
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PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192068 March 9, 2018