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Global report on diabetes World Health Organization 2016

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Diabetes is a serious, chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin (a hormone that regulates blood sugar, or glucose), or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. Diabetes is an important public health problem, one of four priority noncom ... more

The Public Health Dimension of the World Drug problem

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

How WHO works to prevent drug use, reduce harm and improve safe access to medicines

Brazil‘s Social Policy Response to Covid-19: Healthcare and Poverty Alleviation

Massard da Fonseca, E.; Arantes Beatriz, L. B.; Portella, C. Global Dynamics of Social Policy; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2022) CC

During the pandemic, Brazil has provided its citizens with support in the areas of long-term care and disability, the labor market, social assistance, education, and pensions. This report focuses on two so ... more

Young People and Mental Health in a Changing World. Hindi Version

World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) (2018) CC

World report on child injury prevention

World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Peden, Margie et al. (2008) C_WHO

Every year, around 830 000 children die from unintentional or "accidental" injuries. The vast majority of these injuries occur in low-income and middle-income countries. However, dozens of prevention strategies and programmes exist. If they were integrated into other child survival programmes and im ... more

Fair Trade and Catholic Social Teaching

CRS Fair Trade (2014) C1

The state of food security and nutrition in the world 2023

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

This report is the annual global monitoring report documenting progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 targets 2.1 and 2.2. This year’s report explores the links between urbanization and changing food systems and how these changes are impacting the availability, affordability and des ... more

Real-time learning report on World Vision's response to the ebola virus in Sierra Leone

Cascioli Sharp, R. World Vision (2015)

This real-time learning process was carried out in order to identify the gaps and needs within World Vision’s current Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) response in Sierra Leone and to inform World Vision ... more

World Disasters Report 2020: Come Heat or High Water - Tackling the Humanitarian Impacts of the Climate Crisis Together. Excecutive Summay

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2020) C1

The failure to protect the people most vulnerable to climate change is especially alarming given the steady increase in the number of climate and weather-related disasters. According to the World Disasters Report, the average number of climate and w ... more

Unequal, unprepared, under threat -World AIDS Day Report, 1 Dec 2021

UNAIDS (2021) C_WHO

Why bold action against inequalities is needed to en AIDS, stop COVID-19 and prepare for future pandemics

World Report on Health Policy and Systems Research

World Health Organization (WHO), Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (2017) C_WHO

Inheriting a sustainable world: Atlas on children’s health and the environment

Marie-Noel Bruné Drisse and Fiona Goldizen World Health Organisation (WHO) (2017) C_WHO

This new publication presents the continuing and emerging challenges to children’s environmental health.

Public health dimension of the world drug problem

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Report by the Director-General. 75th World health assembly 25 April 2022

World Humanitarian Data and Trends 2018

OCHA Health Affairs (2018) C2

World Humanitarian Data and Trends presents global- and country-level data-and-trend analysis about humanitarian crises and assistance. Its purpose is to consolidate this information and present it in an accessible way, providing policymakers, rese ... more

Disability-inclusive social protection research in Vietnam

Banks, Lena M., Walsham, Matthew and others International Centre for Evidence in Disability (2018) C1

A national overview with a case study from Cam Le district
The overall aims of this study are (1) to assess the extent to which social protection systems in Vietnam address the needs of people with disabilities; and (2) to identify and document ... more

Liberia: Ministry of Health and Social Welfare 2014 Annual Report

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Liberia (2015) C1

Atlas: country resources for neurological disorders 2004: results of a collaborative study of the World Health Organization and the World Federation of Neurology
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World Health Organization; World Federation of Neurology (2004) C_WHO

NEUROLOGY ATLAS presents for the first time, the most comprehensive collection and compilation of information on neurological resources across 109 countries. The results confirm that the available resources including services for neurological disorders are markedly insufficient; in addition, the ... more

Effect of Perceived Social Support, Depression Symptoms, and Stigma on Adherence and Treatment Outcome of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy at Zewditu Memorial Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Alemu Tilahun, H. (2012) C1

Dissertation

Shock-Responsive Social Protection Systems research: Case study—Lesotho

Kardan, A., O’Brien, C. and Masasa, M. Oxford Policy Management (2017) C2