An overview on the health equity impact of policy and action: Is it making a difference? Why or why not?
Key messages
● Pre-crisis Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices:
The Code has not been adequately implemented and enforced in Ukraine.
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MCIS) data from 2012: Child ever breastfed (95.4%); early initiation of breastfeeding (EIBF) within 1... hr of birth (65.7%); children under 6 months exclusively breastfed (EBF)(19.7%); continued breastfeeding at 1 (37.9%) and 2 years of age (22%); children under 6 months predominantly breastfed (51.6%); children 0-23 months bottle fed (66.6%); introduction of solid, semi-solid or soft foods for children 6-8 months (43.2%).
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FAO’s component of the Global COVID-19 Humanitarian Response Plan
18.5.2020
Novel coronavirus will disproportionately impact world’s 70 million displaced people
Report recommends stopping asylum seeker deportations, prioritising hygiene and refugee camp decongestion, better communication
Displaced people must be included in prevention, mitigation efforts - for s...ake of everyone’s health
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PNAS 2022 Vol. 119 No. 7 e2109217118
Pan African Medical Journal 2017;27:215. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2017.27.215.12994
Become familiar with One Health, a promising concept, and the effective solutions it provides for urgent health problems.
Disaster Recovery Toolkit
Evidence from Low and Middle Income Countries
March – June 2020
This update: 3 April 2020
Mohamed et al. BMC Public Health 2018, 18(Suppl 3):1215
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6053-xpre-