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HIV Prevention and Treatment Behavior Change and the Situated Information Motivation Behavioral Skills (sIMB) Model: A Qualitative Evaluation of a Community Health Worker Intervention in Rakai, Uganda

Pollard R., C. Kennedy, H. Hutton, et al. (2022) C2

AIDS Behav. 2022 Feb;26(2):375-384.doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03391. A community health worker (CHW) model can promote HIV prevention and treatment behaviors, especially in highly mobile populations. In a fishing community in Rakai, Uganda, the Rakai Health Sciences Program implemented a communit... more

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Κατευθυντήριες oδηγίες του Παγκόσμιου Οργανισμού Υγείας για τη φαρμακευτική αντιμετώπιση του επίμονου πόνου σε παιδιά με διάφορες παθήσεις

World Health Organization (2013)

WHO guidelines on the pharmacological treatment of persisting pain in children with medical illnesses

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Policy statement and recommended actions to lower national salt intakes and lower death rates from high blood pressure and strokes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2014) C_WHO

The document outlines strategies for reducing salt intake to combat high blood pressure, strokes, and heart disease in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. It highlights the need for progressive reductions in salt consumption, particularly in staple foods like bread, while promoting public awareness, e... more

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AMR Fact Sheet Health Professionals

ReAct, Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network (2019) C2

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when organisms that cause disease are no longer susceptible/responsive to antimicrobial agents that previously were effective in combating them. AMR is a global problem with particularly dire consequences for Africa which is already grappling with high levels ... more

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Sustainability and the common good: Catholic Social Teaching and ‘Integral Ecology’ as contributions to a framework of social values for sustainability transitions

Christie, I.; Gunton R. M., Hejnowicz A.P. IR3S (2019) C1

Sustainability Science (2019) 14:1343–1354

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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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Female Genital Schistosomiasis: a guide to inform equitable schistosomiasis control efforts in Ghana

Countdown (2020) CC

Learning pack. This pack presents a summary of exploratory qualitative research methods and findings from frontline health implementers and communities conducted by the research team in Ghana.

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Managing Sexual Violence against Aid Workers: prevention, preparedness, response and aftercare. Summary Brief

European Interagency Security Forum (2019) C1

Managing Sexual Violence against Aid Workers aims to support aid agencies in preventing, being prepared for and responding to incidents of sexual violence against their staff. It is intended as a good practice guide to help strengthen existing processes and support organisations as they set up their... more

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AMR Fact Sheet for Health Professionals

Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network (2015) C1

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Measuring instrument: knowledge, attitudes and practices of people with pulmonary tuberculosis

Muñoz-Sánchez, A.I.; Rubiano-Mesa Y. L. , Saavedra-Cantor C. J. (2019) CC

Rev. Latino-Am. Enfermagem 2019;27:e3086 DOI: 10.1590/1518-8345.2608.3086

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Learning Route in Senegal

Palma, G. Learning Route (LR), SUN (Scaling Up Nutrition) (2020) C2

Strengthening the capacities of SUN Countries by sharing and disseminating good practices in the fight against malnutrition. This report is a summary of the results of the preparation and implementation of the Learning Route (LR) organized jointly by the SUN (Scaling Up Nutrition) Movement’s S... more

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Competencies for nurses working in primary health care

World Health Organization WHO (2015) C_WHO

Primary care represents the first level of personal health care services in the community, which ensures accessible, continual, whole-person care for health needs throughout an individual’s lifespan. Primary care professionals work with patients and their families to address their immediate and ... more

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The bumpy road to better health: how embedded research strengthened health services in Ghana

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

This is the story of how an experiment in the north of Ghana changed the health of a nation. How health staff in remote and rural areas are working tirelessly to prevent the deaths of mothers and children. How a radical approach to health research, known as embedded research, has revolutionized how ... more

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Spirituality as an essential domain of palliative care: Caring for the whole person

Puchalski, C.M. (2013) CC

Progress in Palliative Care, 20:2, 63-65, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/0969926012Z.00000000028

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Effective Implementation of Public Health and Social Measures in Uganda: Situational Analysis

WHO; Africa CDC; World Economic Forum et al. PERC (2020) C_WHO

PERC produces regional and member state situation analyses, updated regularly.

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Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Zimbabwe

Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC) (2021) CC

This report describes findings from a telephone survey with 1,284 people conducted in February 2021. The survey examined how people respond to public health and social measures (PHSMs) to prevent COVID-19. The sample is representative of households with access to a landline or cell phone, but does n... more

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Fair allocation mechanism for COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

9 September 2020 In a snapshot, fair allocation of vaccines will occur in the following way: An initial proportional allocation of doses to countries until all countries reach enough quantities to cover 20% of their population This document is also available in Arabic | Chinese | French | R... more

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“We Have to Be Worried”. The Impact of Lead Contamination on Children’s Rights in Kabwe, Zambia

Human Rights Watch (2019) C1

Children in Kabwe are especially at risk because they are more likely to ingest lead dust when playing in the soil, their brains and bodies are still developing, and they absorb four to five times as much lead as adults. The consequences for children who are exposed to high levels of lead and are no... more