Women and children, especially pregnant girls and women, infants and young children and postpartum women, are populations that are extremely vulnerable in emergencies. Breastfeeding provides children with hydration, comfort, connection, high quality nutrition and protection against disease, shieldin...g them from the worst of emergency conditions. This ability has been described as empowering and healing by some breastfeeding women.
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This short guide to the Global Diabetes Compact explains what diabetes is and why action to improve prevention efforts, diagnosis and treatment is so urgent. It outlines the key asks associated with the Compact and emphasizes that increasing access to insulin, strengthening health systems and meanin...gfully engaging with people affected by diabetes are key to success.
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PLoS Med 15(7): e1002615. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pmed.1002615
BMC Medicine201614:112 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0660-0
This study looked at structural risk factors to COVID-19 that existed before the outbreak and may have direct and indirect effects on COVID-19 risk across all the 47 counties in Kenya. These factors are COVID-19 exposure and vulnerability and lack of adaptive capacity to COVID-19.
Der Globale Aktionsplan für ein gesundes Leben und das Wohlergehen aller Menschen und der Prozess zur Neuformulierung der Strategie der Bundesregierung zu Globaler Gesundheit
MAMI refers to the management of small and nutritionally at risk infants under six months of age (infants u6m) and their mothers.
Economic Issues, Policies and Option for Action
Families and Societies Working Paper Series Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 7, No 2 | a770 | 06 December 2018
Recommendations for a Public Health approach and considerations for policy-makers and managers
Guidelines
Key Populations
Health Policy Plan (2017) 32 (5): 603-612; 10 pp. 318 kB
front cover © Hannah Maule-Ffinch/Save the Children