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Mental Health: Resources for Community Health Workers
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OpenLearn Create (2019) CC

The guide is especially appropriate for settings where the provision of medical, diagnostic and support services is sparse or lacking. It covers adult and child mental health problems, as well as childhood developmental disorders. It includes information and guidance on dealing with mental health cr... more

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Tuberculosis Results Profile Ethiopia 2019

The Global Fund (2019) CC

Tuberculosis cases, TB deaths

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Botswana Country Operational Plan 2017 Strategic Direction Summary

PEPFAR (2017) 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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Transforming Health Systems for Universal Health Care

Ministry of Health, Kenya (2016) C1

Vulnerable and Marginalized Groups Planning Framework

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Countdown Equity Analyses by country: Liberia 2015

Countdown to 2030 Commission (2016) C1

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UNAIDS and Sierra Leone Country update
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UNAIDS (2016) C1

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The health and social effects of nonmedical cannabis use

World Health Organization (2016) C_WHO

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Guidelines on the local government planning process health sector supplement

Ministry of Health Uganda (2016) C1

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ENGAGE-TB: integrating community-based tuberculosis activities into the work of nogovernmental and other civil society organizations: training of community health workers and community volunteers

Thomas Joseph, Nathalie Likhite, Lana Syed et al. World Health Organization (2015) C_WHO

Facilitator's Guide. This guide is designed to assist facilitators in training community health workers (CHWs) and community volunteers (CVs) in integrating community-based TB services into their work. The training will help community workers who already provide numerous services to understand TB an... more

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Kenya: Countdown Equity Analyses by country

Countdown to 2015 (2015) C1

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Revised WHO classification and treatment of childhood pneumonia at health facilities

World Health Organization (2014)

The revised guidelines present two major changes to existing guidelines: (A) there are now just 2 categories of pneumonia instead of 3 (“pneumonia” which is treated at home with oral amoxicillin and “severe pneumonia” which requires injectable antibiotics) and (B) oral amoxicillin replaces o... more

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Guidance on couples HIV testing and counselling including antiretroviral therapy for treatment and prevention in serodiscordant couples: recommendations for a public health approach

World Health Organization WHO (2012) C_WHO

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Best practice guidelines for mental health promotion programs: Refugees

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH); Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Toronto Public Health (2012) C1

This resource is the third in a series of online guides for promoting positive mental health across the lifespan. This resource provides health and social service providers (“practitioners”) with current evidence-based approaches in the application of mental health promotion concepts and princip... more