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Syrian Medical Voices from the Ground: The Ordeal of Syria's Healthcare Professionals

Center for Pubic Health and Human Rights; John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Syrian American Medical Society (2015)

This report recounts the experiences of 27 physicians and other health workers in Syria (all but two of them Syrian) who struggle to provide trauma care and health services to a population under assault.

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Fit for women? Safe and decent PPE for women health and care workers

Women for Global Health WGH (2021) CC

One of the many gender inequities in the health and care workforce that COVID-19 has exposed is around the fit and design of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). The rapid onset and scale of COVID-19 led to shortages of PPE in most countries, causing preventable infection and mortality among healthc... more

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Women and drugs - Drug use, drug supply and their consequences

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2018) C2

World Drug Report 2018 -5-

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Assessment of the National Quality Management Systems Used to Monitor and Improve Quality in Health Service Provision in Hospitals and Health Centres in Namibia

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) (2014) C1

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The Future of Humanitarian Surge

Start Network (2017) CC

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Coverage at a crossroads: New directions for vitamin A supplementation programmes

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2018)

In where under-five mortality is high and vitamin A deficiency is a public health problem, two high-dose supplements of vitamin A per year, spaced four to six months apart, can strengthen children’s immune systems and improve their chances of survival.
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The Impact of Climate Change on Health: Reducing Risks and Increasing Resilience in the Era of COVID-19

Machalaba; C.; Bouley, T. A.; Nunziata, K. R.; et al. (2021) C1

The climate crisis has many consequences – among them widespread health impacts that will lead to immense societal, ecological, and economic harm. Over the past two decades multiple large-scale reviews on climate change and health have made clear the need for a multi-sectoral approach to target t... more

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Rehabilitation 2030: A Call for Action

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

There is a substantial and ever-increasing unmet need for rehabilitation worldwide, which is particularly profound in low- and middle -income countries. The availability of accessible and affordable rehabilitation is necessary for many people with health conditions to remain as independent as possi... more

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Methods used by WHO to estimate the global burden of TB disease

P. Glaziou, C.Sismanidis, P. J. Dodd, et al. World Health Organization; University of Sheffield (2017) C_WHO

30 October 2017

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COVID-19. Практическое применение глобальной стратегии реагирования в Европейском регионе ВОЗ

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2020) C_WHO

This strategic document is relevant to the diverse contexts that exist across the WHO European Region, and to countries implementing a wide range of national and subnational responses. The strategy is flexible and adaptable to national and subnational contexts and guides countries in rapidly bringin... more

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International and local/diaspora actors in the Syria response - A diverging set of systems?

Eva-Svoboda; Sara Pantuliano ODI_ Humanitarian Policy Group (2015)

This paper examines how diaspora and local organisations have responded to the crisis in Syria, how they evolved and the challenges that they face - and how international aid organisations and disapora and local groups can better work together in a new aid model.