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Clinical management of COVID-19: Living guideline, 15 September 2022
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World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The WHO COVID-19 Clinical management: living guidance contains the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for the clinical management of people with COVID-19. Providing guidance that is comprehensive and holistic for the optimal care of COVID-19 patients throughout their entire illness is ... more

What Clinicians Need to Know About Gambling Disorders

National Center for Responsible Gaming (NCR) (2012) CC

Increasing the Odds: A Series to Understanding Gambling Disorders. Vol.7 All editions of Increasing the Odd sare available as a free download at https://www.icrg.org/resources/monographs

Hospital-based mental health services: promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

The WHO Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches document is part of the WHO Guidance and technical packages on community mental health services set of publications. It provides a detailed description of person-centred and human rights-based ... more

Statement of guidance and recommendations to African Union Member States on the epidemic modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic

African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2021) C1

Many African countries were amongst the most rapid to respond to the emerging threat of COVID-19, implementing large-scale interventions at very early stages of their epidemic. As demonstrated in this document using very simple models, this rapid mobilization and timeliness of implementing control m ... more

Digital documentation of COVID-19 certificates: vaccination status: technical specifications and implementation guidance, 27 August 2021

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

This is a guidance document for countries and implementing partners on the technical requirements for developing digital information systems for issuing standards-based interoperable digital certificates for COVID-19 vaccination status, and considerations for implementation of such systems, for the ... more

Resilience in a Riskier World: Managing Systemic Risks from Biological and Other Natural Hazards - Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2021

UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (2021) C1

Since the start of the pandemic, the region has been hit by multiple natural and biological disasters. At the same time, climate change has continued to warm the world, exacerbating the impacts of many of these disasters. The *Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2021, *also launched today, shows that the p ... more

Task sharing policy guidelines 2017-2030

Ministry of Health, Kenya (2017) C1

Expanding access to quality health services through task sharing

Climate Change & Heat and Impact on Health
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Liebau, L.; and S. Mauder (2022) CC

MEDBOX Issue Brief no.23. The intent of this Issue Brief is to raise awareness about heat waves as a result of climate change and its impact on health. More information on the topic of climate change and planetary health you can find in our PLANETARY HEALTH TOOLBOX www.planetaryhealthbox.org

Bridging the gap between ethics and decision-making in pandemics - Report of the WHO Pandemic Ethics and Policy Summit

World Health Organization WHO OCHA Services reliefweb (2022) C_WHO

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised profound ethical challenges on an unprecedented global scale. These challenges include how to allocate scarce resources (especially vaccines and therapeutics), both within and between countries, whether and when to mandate vaccines and/or masks, whether and how to co ... more

Impact Evaluation Notes No.4 - Use of Impact Evaluation Results

David Bonbright, Keystone Accountability InterAction, The Rockefeller Foundation (2012) C3

This is the fourth guidance note in a four-part series of notes related to impact evaluation developed by InterAction with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation.This fourth guidance note, Use of Impact Evaluation Results, highlights three themes crucial for effective utilization of evalu ... more

Act now for children: How a global pandemic is changing the lives of children in Middle East and Eastern Europe region

World Vision (2020) CC

New research explores the stress children in World Vision programmes in the Middle East and Eastern Europe region are under due to COVID-19. In addition to their fear that they themselves or their loved ones will catch the disease, children worry about economic hardships, the loss of their education ... more

It’s time to listen to young people and cut carbon, clear the air and improve health

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2021) C2

Preliminary fndings from a global survey of urban young people on the air they breathe and a child health co-benefts analysis of radical decarbonisation of 16 global cities.

Making local health services accountable.

GIZ BMZ (2015) C1

Social auditing in Nepal’s health sector

How socio-ecological transformation can succeed.

German's Bishop Conference Commission on International Church Affairs (2022) C2

An interdisciplinary study within the framework of the dialogue project on the contribution of the Catholic Church to a socio-ecological transformation. The study examines the obstacles to the implementation of the socio-ecological transformation and develops recommendations for action.

Guidelines for Cunducting Clinical Trials of Medicines, Food Supplements, Vaccines, and Medical Devices in Sierra Leone

Pharmacy Board Sierra Leone (2014) C1

HIV Testing and Counselling (HTC) Plan, Malawi

Government of Malawi, Ministry of Health (2015) C1

The 5 years plan to scale up HIV Testing and Counselling Services in Malawi 2006-2010

Guidance on Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in the Health Sector, Myanmar - Rural Setting

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement (MSWRR), Ministry of Health (2011) C1

The guidance aspires
• To emphasize the 'need' to mainstream disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the health sector initiatives.
• To identify key approaches for mainstreaming DRR in the health sector in Myanmar, particularly in rural areas, based on the good practices, innovative approach ... more

Children and Young People with Disabilities Fact Sheet

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2013)

Dementia - A public health priority

World Health Organization; Alzheimer's Disease International (2012) C_WHO

The report “Dementia: a public health priority” has been jointly developed by WHO and Alzheimer's Disease International. The purpose of this report is to raise awareness of dementia as a public health priority, to articulate a public health approach and to advocate for action at international a ... more