Key highlights from January to April 2020 (Syria situation)
Across the MENA region, UNHCR is receiving alarming reports of increasing mental health issues among the forcibly displaced. Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) activities are being stepped up by UNHCR and partners to address th...is new dangerous trend.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought social and economic crisis that is rapidly exacerbating an ongoing nutrition insecurity in Nigeria.
To contain the spread of the pandemic in Nigeria, the government has put in place a number of measures, one of which is the lockdown in the three states of Lagos, ...Ogun, FCT and lately Kano, which have high COVID-19 confirmed cases. Similarly, several other states have adopted measures, such as movement restriction, in order to curb the spread of the pandemic.
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OECD Family database www.oecd.org/social/family/database
OECD - Social Policy Division - Directorate of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
Public Health Situation Analysis and Interventions 10 October 2017
Situational Analysis: 13-23 October 2014
Report prepared using the WHO/SEARO workbook tool for undertaking a situational analysis of medicines in health care delivery in low and middle income countries
A scale to measure (social) participation for use in rehabilitation, stigma reduction and social integration programmes
Since independence (1961) the Government through the Department of Social welfare has been providing services to people with disabilities without a comprehensive policy. The adoption of the National Policy on Disability (NPD) is the outcome of many years of consultations among disability stakeholder...s.
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A summary of the national drug situation
This report details the nutrition situation in Namibia. It provides information on what needs to be done! The situation calls for a consorted action. Nutrition is everyone’s business.The establishment of the National Alliance for Improved Nutrition (NAFIN) is a positive response to this urgency. N...AFIN is a multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder association, not for gain.
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Promoting People's Health to Enhance Social-economic Development
Situation of Disabilities in Indonesia : Blindness and Sight Disorder
A summary of the national drug situation
Gac Méd Caracas 2018;126(1):52-78
Responsibilidad Social Institucional (RSI)
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The process to develop this "National Traditional Medicine Policy" included a detailed situational analysis of traditional medicine in Liberia and a desk review of relevant documents and the regional policy framework on the alignment of WAHO countries ...policy harmonization.
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Militantisme et changement social. Partie 2
Volume 23, Number 2, Fall 2017
A toolkit for behavioural and social communication in outbreak response
To understand the national situation, Ethiopia did a situation assessment, launched its first strategy in 2011, and took action to contain AMR, as detailed in the blue boxes found throughout this strategy. This updated version of the strategy was in response to the revised health and medicines polic...ies, health sector transformation plan, and the resolutions of the 68th World Health Assembly
of May 2015 and so that Ethiopia’s efforts could be coordinated with global initiatives in the prevention and containment of AMR.
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UNICEF's global work on statistics and monitoring the situation of children & women
Mental and Social Aspects of Health of Populations Exposed to Extreme Stressors
The ASEAN Mental Health Systems Report
catalogues the situation of mental health in ASEAN
Member States. This report provides comprehensive
information on the progress made so far by AMS in
integrating mental health into national health systems,
increasing access to care as well as challenges f...aced.
It also offers recommendations on how to improve the mental health system in
respective ASEAN Member States.
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