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Don’t pollute my future! The impact of the environment on children’s health

World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

In 2015, 5.9 million children under age five died (1). The major causes of child deaths globally are pneumonia, prematurity, intrapartum-related complications, neonatal sepsis, congenital anomalies, diarrhoea, injuries and malaria (2). Most of these diseases and conditions are at least partially cau... more

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Making agriculture in Africa climate-smart

Knaepen, H.; C. Torres and F. Rampa (2015) CC

Briefing Note no. 80 November 2015

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Clinical management of COVID-19: living guideline, 13 January 2023

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

As of 12 December 2022, over 645 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, with over 6.6 million deaths (4). The Omicron variant, which emerged in late November 2021, and its subvariants, are now the dominant circulating viruses, contributing to the ongoing surge in several countr... more

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Protection of Refugees with Disabilities: Uganda Fieldwork Report, August-September 2013

Laura Smith-Khan, Professor Mary Crock, Professor Ben Saul, Professor Emeritus Ron McCallum AO, University of Sydney (2013) C1

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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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Effective communication strategies and practices for dengue and other arboviral diseases: Systematic review

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Health communication has proven to play a crucial role in addressing diseases such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya, for which there are no definitive or easily accessible vaccines. In this context, this discipline becomes a fundamental tool to promote the change behavior and promote preventive pract... more

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Communicable Diseases Control in Emergencies
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Connolly, M.A. World Health Organization WHO (2005) C_WHO

A field manual

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Policy Brief: COVID-19 & Poverty and Hunger

World Vision (2020) CC

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Glaube in Aktion. Wie religiöse Organisationen den demografischen Wandel in Westafrika voranbringen

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (2022) CC

In Westafrika wird die Bevölkerung in den nächsten Jahrzehnten noch stark wachsen. Bis 2050 dürfte sich die Einwohnerzahl der 16 Staaten von heute 402 auf rund 797 Millionen Menschen nahezu verdoppeln. Der Grund dafür sind vor allem hohe Geburtenraten: Frauen bekommen zwischen Mauretanien und... more

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Community Case Management of Malaria in Urban Settings

Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo WHO, TDR (2011)

A feasibility study in five African sites

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Community-based rehabilitation: CBR guidelines - Social component

Kamala Achu, Kathy Al Jubah, Svein Brodtkorb, et al. WHO (2010) C_WHO

Available in: English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Thai, Korean, Tajik, Vietnamese, Uzbek http://www.who.int/disabilities/cbr/guidelines/en/

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Nepal: Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS), 2014

Ministry of Agricultural Development (2014) C1

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Ukraine: Emergency Response Plan for the Covid-19 Pandemic

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2020) C2

The following Emergency Response Plan for the COVID-19 pandemic seeks to set out activities that will be undertaken by humanitarian actors in Ukraine over the course of 2020 to respond to the public health impact of the epidemic – as well as the indirect, socio-economic impact on people’s well-b... more

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Clinical management of COVID-19: Living guideline, 18 August 2023

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The WHO COVID-19 Clinical management: living guidance contains the 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 important.

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Standard Operating Procedures for the National eHealth Coordination Hub

Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone (2017) C1

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India's Healthcare System - Overview and Quality Improvements

Growth Analysis Studentplan (2013) CC

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Iron Status of Burkinabé Adolescent Girls Predicts Malaria Risk in the Following Rainy Season

Brabin, L.; S. Gies; S. A. Roberts et al. MDPI (2020) CC

High levels of storage iron may increase malaria susceptibility. This risk has not been investigated in semi-immune adolescents. We investigated whether baseline iron status of nonpregnant adolescent girls living in a high malaria transmission area in Burkina Faso affected malaria risk during the fo... more

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Global Status Report on Road Safety

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2018) C_WHO

Road safety is an issue that does not receive anywhere near the attention it deserves – and it really is one of our great opportunities to save lives around the world

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Epidemiology of Alzheimer's Disease: Comparison between Africa and South America

F. A. E. Sosso, O. Nakamura; M. Nakamura Journal of Neurology and Neuroscience (2017) C2

Received Date: Jun 15, 2017; Accepted Date: Jun 28, 2017; Published Date: Jun 30, 2017 Citation: Etindele Sosso FA, Nakamura O, Nakamura M (2017) Epidemiology of Alzheimer’s Disease: Comparison between Africa and South America. J Neurol Neurosci Vol.8 No.4:204. DOI: 10.21767/2171-6625.1000204

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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 health workforce in three Latin American countries for the very first tim... more

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