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Findings and Recommendations from the Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries (NCDI) Commission of Ethiopia

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia -Ministry of Health (2018) 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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Ukraine Situation Regional Refugee Response Plan (March - December 2022)

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2022) CC

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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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Ethiopia: POLICY AND PRACTICE INFORMATION FOR ACTION

Ministry of Health, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (2014) C1

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WHO Pharmacovigilance indicators: a practical manual for the assessment of pharmacovigilance systems

World Health Organization WHO (2015) C_WHO

This manual provides a practical method for determining the pharmacovigilance indices. It is designed to be simple and can be understood by any worker in pharmacovigilance without formal training in monitoring and evaluation. Pharmacovigilance as a medical discipline is crucial in preventing medicin... more

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Community Approaches to Child Health in Cameroon: Applying the Community-based Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (C-IMCI) Framework

USAID, core group, PLAN (2009) C1

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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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A Guidance for Tuberculosis Prevention and Control in Indigenous Populations in the Region of the Americas

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2021) C_WHO

Tuberculosis continues to represent a severe public health problem in the Region of the Americas, even more so in the case of indigenous peoples, whose TB incidence is much higher than that of the general population. To achieve tuberculosis control in these communities, it is necessary to respond t... more

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Understanding the challenges of disability in Myanmar

Bawi, Salai Vanni (2012) C1

This predominantly qualitative research on disability and development in Myanmar was conducted between August 2011 and February 2012, in three commercial centres of Yangon, Mandalay and Taunggyi. Stakeholders of service providers, persons with disabilities (PWDs) and families of disabled people were... 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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Field-friendly Guide to Integrate Emergency Obstetric Care in Humanitarian Programs

Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium (2005) C1

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WHO Level II household survey to measure access to and use of medicines in Ghana

Daniel Kojo Arhinful Ministry of Health, Ghana (2011) C1

This field study to measure access to and use of medicines was undertaken in GHANA in May-June 2008. The study assessed information on the socio-economic level of households, and access to and use of medicines for acute and chronic conditions as well as opinions and perceptio... more

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Pedoman Teknis Penanggulangan Krisis Kesehatan akibat Bencana

Departemen Kesehatan Republik Indonesia (2007) C1

Guidance book for health workers who working in the handling of health crisis caused by natural disasters in Indonesia. This manual refers to international standards.

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Use of high burden country lists for TB by WHO in the post-2015 era

World Health Organization (2015) C_WHO

Discussion paper initially prepared in April 2015 to facilitate feedback, and finalized after the June 2015 meeting of WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for TB (STAG-TB).

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Alcohol and Public Health in the Americas

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2007) C_WHO

Making the Case for Alcohol as a Public Health Threat in the Region. The purpose of this document is to explain the need for making alcohol a top public health priority in the region and the need for national and regional action. Current evidence-based research shows that alcohol consumption and dri... more

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Prevención de la infección por el VIH bajo la lupa

M. Alonso González; J. Hourcade Bellocq; M. B. Mello; et al. Organización Panamericana de la Salud; Organización Mundial de la Salud (Américas); ONUSIDA (2017) C_WHO

Un análisis desde la perspectiva del sector de la salud en América Latina y el Caribe Washington, D.C., 2017

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Protocolo De Manejo Clínico Do Corona Vírus (Covid-19) Na Atenção Primária Á Saúde

Ministério da Saúde, Brazil (2020) CC

O objetivo deste documento é definir o papel dos serviços de APS/ESF no manejo e controle da infecção COVID-19, bem como disponibilizar os instrumentos de orientação clínica para os profissionais que atuam na porta de entrada do SUS a partir da transmissão comunitária de COVID-19 no Brasil.

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Protocolo de manjeno clinico do Coronavirus (COVID-19) na atencao primaria a saude (Versao 7)

Secretaria de Atencao Primaria Saude (SAPS) Ministerio da Saude Brasilia (2020) CC

Coronavirus Clinical Management Protocol (COVID-19) in Primary Health Care (Version 7)

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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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