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A Turning Point for Planetary Health

Lurie M. Milken Institute (2020) C2

History has shown that governments tend to deprioritize environmental commitments during times of financial and public crises as they work to mitigate immediate needs—and the age of COVID-19 has been no different. Even though human interaction with wildlife is believed to be the cause of the pande ... more

Break the Barrier, Strengthen the Township Project

Down Syndrome South Africa (2010) C2

My Dad Take's Part in the Family

HEALTH SYSTEMS FINANCING The path to universal coverage

World Health Organization (2010) C_WHO

Promoting and protecting health is essential to human welfare and sustained economic and social development. This was recognized more than 30 years ago by the Alma-Ata Declaration signatories, who noted that Health for All would contribute both to a better quality of life and also to global peace a ... more

HIV and adolescents: Guidance for HIV testing and counselling and care for adolescents living with HIV

World Health Organization (2013)

These guidelines provide specific recommendations and expert suggestions — for national policy-makers and programme managers and their partners and stakeholders— on prioritizing, planning and providing HIV testing, counselling, treatment and care services for adolescents

Un environnement sain pour des enfants sains : messages clés pour des actions contrètes

Organisation Mondiale de la Santé OMS (2010) C_WHO

Les messages clés pour des actions concrètes présentés ci-après résument un ensemble de chapitres sur différents problèmes de santé liés à l’environnement, qui peuvent être consultés à l’adresse suivante: www.who.int/ceh/publications/ healthyenvironmentsforhealthychildren.

National Action Plan for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance: Myanmar 2017-2022

World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

Myanmar, as a country going through rapid socio-political transition and institutional development also suffers with a high burden of infectious disease. An ongoing challenge has been to effectively reach its 51 million population, most of whom battle tuberculosis, acute respiratory infections, diar ... more

Ghana: Public Health Act

Government of Ghana (2012) C1

Act 851 | AN ACT to revise and consolidate the law relating to public health to prevent disease, promote, safeguard, maintain and protect the health of humans and animals and to provide for related matters.

Standard treatment guidelines haemodialysis

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, India; Indian Society of Nephrology (2020) C1

Accessed Febr. 6, 2020

Handbook for Public Health Emergency Operations Center Operations and Management

African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2021) CC

A Public Health EOC (PHEOC) serves as a hub for coordinating the preparation for, response to, and recovery from public health emergencies. The preparation includes planning, such as risk and resource mapping, development of plans and procedures, and training and exercising. The response includes al ... more

UNHCR Global Strategy for Public Health 2021-2025

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2021) C1

UNHCR’s Public Health Strategy 2021-2025 is based on the lessons learnt, and builds on the achievements, of the Global Strategy for Public Health 2014-2018. Progress was made on policies favouring inclusion and integration into national systems3 with 92% of 48 operations surveyed reporting refuge ... more

STAR-H: Strategic Toolkit for Assessing Risks in Health Facilities

Pan American Health Organization (2023) CC

Health facilities in the Region of the Americas frequently suffer the effects of health emergencies and disasters, which jeopardize their ability to provide services to the population. The STAR-H methodology helps staff responsible for health emergency and disaster risk management to identify and as ... more

Treating Buruli Ulcer: A Review of Prospects for Existing Antibiotics and New Therapeutics

Access Campaign, Médecins sans Frontières (2013)

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

Caring for child survivors of sexual abuse guidelines

International Rescue Committee; UN Children's Fund (2024) CC

Sexual abuse perpetrated against children is one of the most significant crises of our time. Child sexual abuse is a significant risk factor for children, in common with other forms of child maltreatment. Sexual abuse can have severe short- and long-term consequences on the physical, mental, social, ... more

COVID‑19 Strategy update 14 April 2020
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World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Integrated Water Resources Management in Myanmar: Water usage and introduction to water quality criteria for lakes and rivers in Myanmar. Preliminary report

Mjelde, Marit; Ballot, Andreas; Swe, Thida; Eriksen, Tor Erik; Nesheim, Ingrid; Aung, Toe Toe Norsk institutt for vannforskning (NIVA) (2017) C1

The purpose of the report is to present some first recommendation for the development of Myanmar ecological quality criteria using the system of the EU Water Framework Directive (EU WFD) as baseline, with main focus on the characterization and classification processes. As background for the recommen ... more

Situation Analysis of Children in South Africa

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2009)

National Health Strategie Plan for Tuberculosis Control in the Kingdom of Cambodia

National Center for Tuberc ulosis and Leprosy Control (CENAT) , Cambodia (2011) C1

“Tufwile Twasakamana” Ubwafya bufuma ku Mutofwe mu Kukowesha kwa Ncende pa Nsambu sha Bana mu musumba wa Kabwe, mu calo ca 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

The Mental Health of Internally Displaced People and the General Population in Ukraine

I. Kuznetsova, O.Mikheieva, J. Catling, et al. (2019) C1