Disaster Recovery Toolkit
Lancet Planet Health 2022;6: e760–68
The emergence of COVID-19 has drawn the attention of health researchers sharply back to the role that food systems can play in generating human disease burden. But emerging pandemic threats are just one dimension of the complex relationship between agriculture... and infectious disease, which is evolving rapidly, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) that are undergoing rapid food system transformation. This changing relationship is examined through four current disease issues.
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BMC Health Services Research (2017) 17:623 DOI 10.1186/s12913-017-2567-7
This brief considers the rationale for shielding individuals at high risk of severe disease or death from COVID-19 in low- and middleincome countries. It provides an overview of proposed approaches to shielding, discusses the categories of individuals who may be identified for shielding, and outline...s the likely difficulties of these measures and ways to mitigate them.
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ICAAP12 Secretariat
Partners in population and development, Dhaka, Bangladesh June 2016
2nd edition. This Permagarden Technical Manual is a resource for agriculture project staff implementing home garden projects with farmers. The manual explains how the permagarden method addresses soil health, water management and crop protection to create a year-round productive home garden. It incl...udes an explanation of the purpose and reasoning behind the method, as well as instructions on how to implement the different practices
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The aim of this article is to identify the elements behind the country’s successful COVID-19 rollout as well as lessons and chal lenges derived from this process. The analysis is relevant to many countries today—as they keep searching for strategies to cope with the second year of the COVID-19 p...andemic and the challenge of implementing a large-scale vaccine rollout—and in the coming years—as new variants develop and unceertainty about the vaccination strategy increases.
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Asthma is the commonest chronic childhood disease and encompasses a spectrum of airway diseases with similar symptoms. Inaccurate diagnosis remains common, especially in younger children, with failure to characterize the different “asthmas.” Children worldwide repeatedly suffer symptoms which se...verely affect their everyday lives. Children die from asthma, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). In many countries, asthma prevalence is rising. Access to effective care and changing environments are hugely variable and may explain the higher morbidity in inner-city children, in LMICs, and in deprived populations in high-income countries. Despite the disease being eminently controllable, morbidity and mortality persist.
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A global Pandemic, Preparedness and Response (RRR) architecture
Du 26 au 28 mars 2012 a lieu au centre Muraz de Bobo Dioulasso, la formation d’une vingtaine de chercheurs en élaboration de notes de politique. Cette formation a été faite par trois facilitateurs, Adjima GBANGOU et Salimata KI/OUEDRAOGO de la direction de la recherche pour la santé du minist...ère de la santé et membres de l’équipe EVIPNet du Burkina Faso et Isabelle HUGUETWACHSMUTH du secrétariat EVIPNet de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé à Genève.
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Guidelines for WHO Representatives and Country
Offices in the Western Pacific Region
AIDS Free Nigeria Training Manual
Ensuring reproductive rights for all