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Health Professionals Guide to the ATT - Promoting Signature, Ratification, and Implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) (2013)

This guide highlights actions health professionals can take to make the Arms Trade Treaty effective.

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Psychosocial Support in Emergencies: Critical for Syrian Children

Save the Children (2013) C2

This report aims to provide Syrian children with a platform to make their voices heard. Their stories highlight the urgent need to address the psychosocial well-being of children affected by the Syrian civil war, and in all emergencies

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8 Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer

Siteman Cancer Center Locations (2021) C1

Breast cancer. Just reading those words can make many women worry. And that’s natural. Nearly everyone knows someone touched by the disease. But there is a lot of good news about breast cancer these days. Treatments keep getting better, and we know more than ever about ways to prevent the disease... more

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Principles for sharing COVID-19 doses with COVAX

Gavi, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and WHO (2021) C_WHO

the Principles for Dose-Sharing provide a framework for higher-income economies to make additional volumes secured via bilateral deals available through the Facility primarily to AMC participants, on an equitable basis. These principles outline that such doses must be safe and effective, available a... more

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The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it

Roser, M. Our World in Data (2020) CC

We are working on Our World in Data to provide ‘Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems’.

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Ethical considerations for vaccination programmes in acute humanitarian emergencies

Keymanthri Moodley, Kate Hardie, Michael J Selgelid, et al. World Health Organization (2013)

Humanitarian emergencies result in a breakdown of critical health-care services and often make vulnerable communities dependent on external agencies for care. In resource-constrained settings, this may occur against a backdrop of extreme poverty, malnutrition, insecurity, low literacy and poor infra... more

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Hinweise des BfArM zur Verwendung von Mund–Nasen-Bedeckungen

BfArM (2020) CC

Im Zusammenhang mit der aktuellen Situation zu SARS-CoV-2 / Covid-19 werden in unterschiedlichen Zusammenhängen verschiedene Typen von Masken zur Bedeckung von Mund und Nase genutzt. Da sich diese Masken grundsätzlich in ihrem Zweck - und damit auch in ihren Schutz- und sonstigen Leistungsmerkmale... more

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Delirium, Dementia, and Depression in Older Adults: Assessment and Care

Registered Nurses Association (RNAO) (2016) CC

Best practice guidelines are systematically developed statements designed to assist nurses working in partnership with persons and their families to make decisions about health care and services (Field & Lohr, 1990). This nursing Best Practice Guideline (BPG) is intended to replace the RNAO BPGs Scr... more

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Return Counselling Toolkit

International Organization for Migration (2022) CC3

An essential component of the return process is counselling, which aims to support counselling beneficiaries to make an informed decision on their future migration pathways. Counselling provides the space for migrants to exert their agency, supports them to prepare for return and positively contr... more

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Clinical utlity of peptide microarrys in the serodiagnosis of neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a diagnostic test accuracy sytematic review

Vengesai A., Naicker T., Kasambala M., et al. BMJ Open (2021) C2

Neglected tropical diseases tend to cluster in the same poor populations, and to make progress with their control, they will have to be dealt with in an integrated manner. Peptide microarrays may be a solution to tese problems, where diagnosis for co-infection can be detected simultaneously using th... more

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Scarbies: Diagnosis and Treatment

American Academy of Dermatology Association (2022) CC

A dermatologist can often diagnose scabies by visually examining a patient’s skin from head to toe. To make sure that a patient has scabies, a dermatologist may remove some skin. This is painless. Your dermatologist will put the skin on a glass slide and look at the slide under a microscope. If y... more

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Integrating health in urban and territorial planning: a sourcebook

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

This sourcebook aims to detail why health needs to be part of urban and territorial planning and how to make this happen. It brings together two vital elements we need to build habitable cities on a habitable planet: 1) Processes to guide the development of human settlements – in this document ref... more

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UNDP Climate Box

United Nations Development Programme UNDP (2022) CC

Climate Box is a comprehensive learning toolkit that educates school children about climate change and inspires them to take action. Designed to make learning fun and interesting, the Climate Box provides up-to-date information on climate change with a range of creative tasks, games, quizzes and ... more

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Farm to Fork strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system

European Commission (2021) CC

The Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of the European Green DealSearch for available translations of the preceding linkEN••• aiming to make food systems fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly.

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Lymphatic filariasis: managing morbidity and preventing disability: an aide-mémoire for national programme managers

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

2nd. edition The new edition has been developed to make widely available to programme managers, health care workers in endemic settings, academic researchers, and other key partners, a concise source of information on strategies for MMDP for LF. It is a product of efforts to elaborate and concepts ... more

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Cloth masks recommendations

Ministry of Health, Republic of South Africa (2020) C2

“Wearing masks is important. We want to recommend widespread use of masks. We are recommending that people can use cloth masks, just make sure there’s a three layer kind of thing.”Dr Zweli Mkhize, Minister of Health available in: Xitsonga, Tshivenda, Siswati, Setswana, Sesotho, Sepedi, isiZul... more

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Tips for Using Social Media: Risk communication and community engagement for coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2020) C2

There is an overabundance of information circulating about the new coronavirusdisease(COVID-19), which can make it hard for people to identify which information is reliable and trustworthy. Rumours and misinformation travel fast–especially through social media.This cannot only stop people from ado... more

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Masks for Curbing the Spread of SARS-CoV-2Coronavirus

Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India (2020) C1

A manual on homemade masks This guide is designed to provide a simple outline of best practices to make, use and reuse masks to enable NGOs and individuals to self-create such masks and accelerate widespread adoption of masks across India. The key criteria for proposed designs are: Ease of Ac... more

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Coronavirus (COVID-19): How to Talk to Your Child

Jennifer Shroff Pendley Nemours (2020) C1

Your kids are hearing about coronavirus (COVID-19). You want to make sure they get reliable information — and you want them to hear it from you. Here's how to talk about it.