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South African Antimicrobial Resistance National Strategy Framework. A One Health Approach 2018 – 2024

Dept. of Health ; Dept of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries, South Africa (2018) C1

Prioritising Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Ebola Recovery: For health, life and dignity

Oxfam International; Tearfund (2015)

Knowledge, attitudes and practices on tuberculosis in prisons and public health services

S. Ferreira Júnior, H. B. de Oliveira, L. Marin-Léon Scientific Electronic Library Online (2013) C2

Conhecimento, atitudes e práticas sobre tuberculose em prisões e no serviço público de saúde Rev Bras Epidemiol 2013; 16(1): 100-113

The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels
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Romanello, M.; C. Di Napoli; P. Drummond, et al. The Lancet (2022) C1

The Lancet October 25, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01540-9 As climate change’s impacts continue to accrue, countries are persistently making wrong choices that are harming human health. A desperate global thirst for fossil fuel ... more

A Wake-Up Call: Lessons from Ebola for the world’s health systems
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Save the Children (2015)

Almost 30 countries vulnerable to a new Ebola-style Epidemic, jeopardising the future of millions of Children. The report ranks the world’s poorest countries on the state of their public health systems, finding that 28 have weaker defences in plac ... more

Countering the stigmatisation and discrimination of people with mental health problems in Europe

McDaid, D. ealth and Living Conditions Network of the European Observatory (2019) C2

Research Paper, Accessed April 10,2019

Scale-up of severe wasting management within the health system: A stakeholder perspective on current progress

Emergency Nutrition Network ENN (2021) CC

A wide range of potential enablers and barriers were identified for influencing progress for the scale-up of severe wasting services within national health systems. Findings were categorised according to the six pillars of WHO’s ... more

Introducing peer support work in Latin American mental health services

Peter Stastny Cad. Saúde Colet. (2012) C1

In the course of implementing a recently funded network of hubs for building capacities in mental health service development, training, and research (RedeAmericas), the peer support workers are being introduced into the mental ... more

An investigation of barriers to the use of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist in theatres

Verwey and Gopalan South Africa Med. J. (2018) CC

This editorial will consider the often heralded and sometimes belittled Surgical Safety Checklist (SSCL) for its general benefits, potential utility, and range of evidence attesting to its value in quality and safety improvement.

Organizing and delivering services for child and adolescent mental health

C. Servili IACAPAP (2012) C2

Miscellaneous Chapter J.5

Access to and Quality of Menstrual Regulation and Postabortion Care in Bangladesh: Evdence from a Survey of Health Facilities, 2014

Altaf Hossain, Isaac Maddow-Zimet, Meghan Ingerick et al. Guttmacher Institute (2017) C1

Mozambique: Cyclone Idai: Cyclone Idai: 2nd, 3rd and 4th level health facilities, flood extent and population (23 Mar 2019)

MapAction (2019) C2

Map shows the population (based on WorldPop at 100m resolution generating through AI) and the Flood Extents known as of 19/20 March 2019 plus Health facilities

Malaria morbidity and mortality in Ebola-affected countries caused by decreased health-care capacity, and the potential effect of mitigation strategies: a modelling analysis
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Patrick G T Walker, Michael T White, Jamie T Griffin, et al. (2015)

The ongoing Ebola epidemic in parts of West Africa largely overwhelmed health-care systems in 2014, making adequate care for malaria impossible and threatening the gains in malaria control achieved over the past decade. The study suggests that untre ... more

The road to patient-centred care in Peru: The difficulties and opportunities to achieve participatory health care

Alarcón-Yaquetto; D.E.; de Ferrari, A.; Málaga, G. Elsevier (2022) C2

Patient-centred care (PCC) is a pillar of quality health services, where decision-making power is shared between the clinician and the patient. Although, this approach could be adopted with easiness in high income settings or in countries with unifi ... more

The Oxford Statement on Medicine Quality and Public Health

Nuffield Dept. of Medicine Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health (2018) CC

In September, 2018, the first international Medicine Quality and Public Health Conference was held at Oxford University, UK, to discuss opportunities and solutions to ensure that all people have access to affordable and quality-assured medical produ ... more

Factors associated with tuberculosis treatment failure in the Central East Health region of Burkina Faso

Diallo A., D. L. Dahourou, T. T. E. Dah et al. Panafrican Med Jounal (2018) C2

Tuberculosis treatment failure results in increased risk of morbidity, drug resistance, transmission and mortality. There are few data about tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Burkina Faso. The current study investigated the factors associated with tuberculosis treatment failure in the central east ... more

Traditional and alternative medicine treatments in child and adolescent mental health

N. L. Soh; G. Walter IACAPAP (2012) C2

Miscellaneous Chapter J.2

Resurgence of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Venezuela as a Regional Public Health Threat in the Americas

Paniz-Mondolfi, A.E.; A. Tami, M.E. Grillet, et al. (2019) C_CDC