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Intercountry high-level meeting on health systems strengthening for enhanced tuberculosis prevention and care

World Health Organization Europe (2016) C_WHO

Regional Eastern European and Central Asian project (TB-REP) Copenhagen, Denmark, 26–28 April 2016

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Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Nutrition in Bangladesh: Can Building Toilets Affect Children's Growth?

Iffat Mahmud and Nkosinathi Mbuya The World Bank (2016) C1

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Toolkit for developting a national TB research plan

N. Gebreselassie , C. Lienhardt, L. Anderson et al. World Health Organization (2016) C_WHO

The End TB Strategie

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Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives. That is, the range of food in supermarkets, small retail outlets, wet markets, street food stalls, coffee shops, tea houses, s...chool canteens, restaurants, and all the other venues where people buy and eat food. These environments differ enormously depending on the context. They can be extensive and diverse, with a seemingly endless array of options and price ranges, or they can be sparse, with very few options on offer. Because they determine what food consumers can access at a given moment in time, at what price, and with what degree of convenience, food environments both constrain and prompt the consumer’s choice.Food environments are influenced by the food systems which supply them, and vice versa. Food systems encompass the entire range of activities, people and institutions involved in the production, processing, marketing, consumption and disposal of food (FAO, 2013). They include but are not limited to food supply chains. Making food systems nutrition-sensitive can contribute to addressing all forms of malnutrition, as food systems determine whether the food needed for good nutrition are available, affordable, acceptable and of adequate quantity and quality. How closely food systems and food environments are interrelated and interdependent, and the degree to which external factors affect nutrition outcomes, varies from setting to setting.Many of today’s food systems and food environments are challenged in supporting consumer choices that are consistent with healthy diets and good nutrition. Consumers are not making choices based on nutrition and health, and poor diet is now the number one risk factor for death and disability worldwide (GBD, 2015). Food systems that do not enable healthy diets are increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of malnutrition (GLOPAN, 2016), and malnutrition, irrespective of form, has a huge cost. Economic costs associated with undernutrition are estimated at $1-2 trillion per year, about 2-3% of global GDP (FAO, 2013); the global economic cost of obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases is estimated at $2 trillion per year, about 2.8% of global GDP (McKinsey, 2014). Influencing food environments for promoting healthy diets is an emerging strategy to address today’s nutrition challenges. more

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Zika Strategic Response Plan Quarterly update, October 2016

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

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Global report on early warning indicators of HIV drug resistance

M. R. Jordan; N.Dean; D. Maradiaga World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Technical Report

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INDEX-TB Guidelines: Guidelines on extrapulmonary Tuberculosis for India

Government of India, Central Tuberculosis Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; WHO (2016) C_WHO

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Namibia: National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme (2015-2016)

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) (2016) C1

Annual Report: 2015-2016

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How to safely collect pus samples from buboes of patients suspected to be infected with bubonic plague

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Interim Guidance

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How to safely collect sputum samples from patients suspected to be infected with pneumonic plague

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Interim Guidance

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Myanmar National Health Plan 2017-2021

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Health and Sports (2016) C1

The National Health Plan (NHP) aims to strengthen the country’s health system and pave the way towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC),choosing a path that is explicitly pro-poor. The main goal of NHP 2017-2021 is to extend access to a Basic Essential Package of Health Services (EPHS) to the entir... more

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Vector surveillance and control at ports, airports, and ground crossings
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World Health Organization (WHO) (2016) C_WHO

The purpose of this handbook is to provide guidance to Member States on the practical aspects of maintaining sanitary standards at international borders at ports, airports, and ground crossings (points of entry) as set out in the International Health Regulations (2005). It provides technical advice ... more

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WHO guideline: the use of safety-engineered syringes for intramuscular, intradermal and subcutaneous injections in health care settings

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Injection practices worldwide and especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) include multiple, avoidable unsafe practices that ultimately lead to the large-scale transmission of bloodborne viruses among patients, health care providers and the community at large.

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Hospital-based birth defects surveillance: a guide to establish and operate

World Health Organization ( WHO), Regional Oﬃce for South-East-Asia (2016) C_WHO

Birth defect has been an emerging major cause of child mortality in the region. Scarcity of the birth defects information hampers policy decisions and control measures at national level. In order to create evidence for action for birth defects prevention in the region, WHO-SEARO in collaboration wit... more

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Clinical management of patients with viral haemorrhagic fever. A pocket guide for the front-line health worker
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World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa; (2016) C_WHO

The purpose of this pocketbook is to provide clear guidance on current best management practices for VHF across health-care facilities

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Scaling up cash transfer programmes: Good practices and lessons learned from Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia

Ana Beatriz Monteiro Costa, Mario Gyoeri and Fábio Veras Soares (2016) CC

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Coaching for the First Embrace. Facilitator's Guide

World Health Organization WHO; Western Pacific Region (2016) C_WHO

Early Essential Newborn Care (EENC) Module 2.

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Joint External Evaluation of Sierra Leone: Mission Report November 2016

World Health Organization (WHO) (2016) C_WHO

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Diabetes in the South-East Asia Region

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia (2016) C_WHO

Special issue: WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health -Vol. 5, Issue 1, April 2016.This special This issue contains a rich collection of articles, demonstrating the encouraging scientific momentum to address the growing burden of diabetes in the region

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Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control Situation in a Primary Health Care Setting of Bangladesh: Design and Baseline Findings of an Intervention

Zaman MM; Ullah AKMJ ; Bhuiyan MR , et al. (2016) CC

Chronic Dis Int - Volume 3 Issue 1 - 2016 ISSN 2379-7983

Vector surveillance and control at ports, airports, and ground crossings recommended

Clinical management of patients with viral haemorrhagic fever. A pocket guide for the front-line health worker recommended

Vector surveillance and control at ports, airports, and ground crossings
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Clinical management of patients with viral haemorrhagic fever. A pocket guide for the front-line health worker
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