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Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives. That is, the range of food in supermarkets, small retail outlets, wet markets, street food stalls, coffee shops, tea houses, s...chool canteens, restaurants, and all the other venues where people buy and eat food. These environments differ enormously depending on the context. They can be extensive and diverse, with a seemingly endless array of options and price ranges, or they can be sparse, with very few options on offer. Because they determine what food consumers can access at a given moment in time, at what price, and with what degree of convenience, food environments both constrain and prompt the consumer’s choice.Food environments are influenced by the food systems which supply them, and vice versa. Food systems encompass the entire range of activities, people and institutions involved in the production, processing, marketing, consumption and disposal of food (FAO, 2013). They include but are not limited to food supply chains. Making food systems nutrition-sensitive can contribute to addressing all forms of malnutrition, as food systems determine whether the food needed for good nutrition are available, affordable, acceptable and of adequate quantity and quality. How closely food systems and food environments are interrelated and interdependent, and the degree to which external factors affect nutrition outcomes, varies from setting to setting.Many of today’s food systems and food environments are challenged in supporting consumer choices that are consistent with healthy diets and good nutrition. Consumers are not making choices based on nutrition and health, and poor diet is now the number one risk factor for death and disability worldwide (GBD, 2015). Food systems that do not enable healthy diets are increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of malnutrition (GLOPAN, 2016), and malnutrition, irrespective of form, has a huge cost. Economic costs associated with undernutrition are estimated at $1-2 trillion per year, about 2-3% of global GDP (FAO, 2013); the global economic cost of obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases is estimated at $2 trillion per year, about 2.8% of global GDP (McKinsey, 2014). Influencing food environments for promoting healthy diets is an emerging strategy to address today’s nutrition challenges. more

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Global analysis of health care waste in the context of COVID-19

World Health Organization WHO (2022) CC

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to large increases in healthcare waste, straining under resourced healthcare facilities and exacerbating environmental impacts from solid waste. This report quantifies the additional COVID-19 healthcare waste generated, describes current healthcare waste management syst... more

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Selection of essential medicines for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases in low and middle income countries

Bazargani, Y.T.; Ugurlu, M.; Leufkens, H.G.M. et al. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders (2018) CC

The incidence and mortality of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in low and middle income countries (LMICs) have been increasing, while access to CVDs medicines is suboptimal. We assessed selection of essential medicines for the prevention and treatment of CVDs on national essential medicines lists (NE... more

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National Guidelines on Nutrition Care, Support, and Treatment (NCST) for Adolescents and Adults

Government of Malawi, Ministry of Health (2014) C1

2nd edition

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Les jeunes ce prennent en charge: Synthèse de programme de participation communautaire pour la santé reproductive et sexuelle des jeunes au Burkina Faso

Thiombiano R., S. Ky, N. Cheetham Participation Communautaire pour la Santé Reproductive et Sexuelle des Jeunes (2006) C2

Le programme de Participation Communautaire pour la Santé Reproductive et Sexuelle des Jeunes au Burkina se fonde sur la conviction que pour mieux contribuer à la résolution des problèmes des jeunes, l’élaboration et la mise en ouvre des programmes doivent se faire de sorte que ce soient les ... more

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Quality of care in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings: tools and resources compendium
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World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

This compendium represents a curated, pragmatic and non-prescriptive collection of tools and resources to support the implementation of interventions to improve quality of care in such contexts. Relevant tools and resources are listed under five areas: Ensuring access and basic infrastructure for qu... more

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Actions Essentielles en Nutrition

Tina Sanghvi, Roger Shrimpton, and Bruno de Benoist BASICS; UNICEF; Organisation Mondiale de la Sante (2004)

Guide pour les responsables des activités de santé

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Enquête Démographique et de Santé de Madagascar 2008-2009

Institut National de la Statistique (INSTAT) et ICF Macro (2010) C1

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Directrices unificadas de la OMS sobre la tuberculosis. Módulo 4: Tratamiento. Tratamiento de la tuberculosis farmacorresistente

Organización Mundial de la Salud OMS (2022) C_WHO

Las recomendaciones contenidas en este módulo son un componente de las directrices unificadas de la OMS sobre la tuberculosis (TB) y están destinadas principalmente para el uso de los programas nacionales de control de la tuberculosis, los organismos de salud pública y otros interesados clave que... more

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State and Trends in Adaptation Report 2021: How Adaptation Can Make Africa Safer, Greener and More Prosperous in a Conference edition Warming World

Global Center on Adaptation (2021) C2

English Analysis on World about Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment, Drought, Flood and more; published on 27 Oct 2021 by GCA

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A Roadmap for Ending Exploitation, Abuse of Talibés in Senegal

Human Rights Watch (2020) C2

For over a decade, Senegalese and international journalists, human rights advocates, and child protection experts have documented and denounced the ongoing exploitation, abuse and neglect of children living in many of Senegal’s traditional Quranic schools, or daaras. Thousands of these children, k... more

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Coronavirus COVID-19 Isolement à domicile

Ministère de la Santé - Le Gouvernement Luxembourgeis (2020) C1

Vous avez une infection confirmée mais vous ne devez pas être hospitalisé car votre état général est bon. Vous devez néanmoins être isolé à domicile. Les personnes vivant sous le même toit et vos relations intimes doivent se mettre en auto-quarantaine pour une période de 7 jours. Ces rec... more

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mhGAP Humanitarian Intervention Guide (mhGAP-HIG): Clinical management of mental, neurological and substance use conditions in humanitarian emergencies
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World Health Organization, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (2015) C_WHO

The new guide provides practical, first-line management recommendations for mental, neurological and substance use conditions. Contents include modules on assessing and managing conditions such as acute stress, grief, moderate-severe depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, epilepsy, and... more

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Guidelines for Implementing Collaborative TB and HIV Programme Activities

Stop TB Partnership. Working Group on TBHIV. Scientific Panel WHO (2003) C_WHO

The main aim of these guidelines is to enable the central units of national TB and HIV/AIDS programmes to support districts to plan, coordinate and implement collaborative TB/HIV activities. These guidelines reinforce current medical understanding, that highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART)... more

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Plan National de Developpement Sanitaire PNDS 2009-2018

Ministère de la Santè et de la Prévention, Senegal (2009) C1

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Priorités stratégiques de l’OMS pour lutter contre la résistance aux antimicrobiens : préserver les antimicrobiens pour aujourd’hui et pour demain

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

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Implementation and management of contact tracing for Ebola virus disease

World Health Organization (WHO); CDC (2015) C_WHO

The document covers: introduction on contact tracing in the Ebola response; general considerations for contact tracing; case definition; planning and preparation; personnel; implementation, and tools for contact tracing.

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Uganda: Revised National Strategic Plan 2015/16 - 2019/20

Ministry of Health, Republic of Uganda (2017) C2

National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Conrol Programme

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Knowledge, attitudes and practices on tuberculosis in prisons and public health services

S. Ferreira Júnior, H. B. de Oliveira, L. Marin-Léon Scientific Electronic Library Online (2013) C2

Conhecimento, atitudes e práticas sobre tuberculose em prisões e no serviço público de saúde Rev Bras Epidemiol 2013; 16(1): 100-113

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Madagascar: Aperçu du système de santé malgache et de la prise en charge de la femme - Stage d’immersion en médecine communautaire

C.Broquet, S.Budry, A.L.Kouakou, N.Meyer (2012) C1

Quality of care in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings: tools and resources compendium recommended

mhGAP Humanitarian Intervention Guide (mhGAP-HIG): Clinical management of mental, neurological and substance use conditions in humanitarian emergencies recommended

Quality of care in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings: tools and resources compendium
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mhGAP Humanitarian Intervention Guide (mhGAP-HIG): Clinical management of mental, neurological and substance use conditions in humanitarian emergencies
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