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Ecosystem services and agriculture: tradeoffs and synergies

The Royal Society Publishing (2010) C2

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B (2010) 365, 2959–2971; doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0143. Agricultural ecosystems provide humans with food, forage, bioenergy and pharmaceuticals and are essential to human wellbeing. These systems rely on ecosystem services provided by natural ecosystems, including pollination, b ... more

Digital adaptation kit for antenatal care: operational requirements for implementing WHO recommendations in digital systems

World Health Organization WHO (2021) CC

TB Guidelines for Nurses in the Care and Control of Tuberculosis and Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis

International Council of Nurses (2015) C2

3rd edition.

Stepping up. Refugee education in crisis

UNHCR UNHCR (2019)

This report tells the stories of some of the world’s 7.1 million refugee children of school age under UNHCR’s mandate. In addition, it looks at the educational aspirations of refugee youth eager to continue learning after secondary education, and highlights the need for strong partnerships in o ... more

COVID-19 in Africa: Protecting Lives and Economies

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) (2020) C1

The ECA, says over 300,000 Africans could lose their lives due to COVID-19. This, as the pandemic continues to impact on the Continent’s struggling economies whose growth is expected to slow down from 3.2 percent to 1.8 percent in a best-case scenario, pushing close to 27 million people into extr ... more

Considering climate and conflict conditions together to improve interventions that prevent child acute malnutrition

Brown, M.E.; Grace, K.; Billing T.; et al. (2021) C1

Lancet Planet Health 2021; 5: e654–58

Report of the workshop for implementing the WHO South-East Asia Regional NCD Roadmap, 2022-2030 WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The workshop aimed to support countries in the prioritization and acceleration of NCD prevention and management with a specific focus on accelerating the prevention and control of hypertension and diabetes, identifying the most impactful NCD interventions within their context, closing the gaps in ca ... more

Tuberculosis care and control in refugee and displaced populations: an inter-agency field manual

M.A. Connolly, M. Gayer and S. Ottmani World Health Organization (2007) C_WHO

Preventing Transmission of Zika Virus in Labor and Delivery Settings Through Implementation of Standard Precautions — United States, 2016

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2016) C_CDC

Noncommunicable diseases in Africa: Youth are key to curbing the epidemic and achieving sustainable development
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Naik, W. & Kaneda, T. Population Reference Bureau (2015) C2

Policy Brief | April 2015 | This brief accompanies the data sheet, Addressing Risk Factors for Noncommunicable Diseases Among Young People in Africa: Key to Prevention and Sustainable Development, and its data appendix, which provide all available country-specific data on four key NCD risk factors a ... more

COVID-19 and Women’s Human Rights: Guidance -What is the Impact of COIVD-19 on Gender-based Violence?

Reliefweb; OCHA Services; United Nations of Human Rights (Office of the High Commissioner); COVID-19 Response (2020) CC

Putting Human Rights at the Heart of the Response Topic in Focus: COVID-19 and Women’s Human Rights 15 April 2020 Stay-at-home restrictions and other measures restricting the movement of people contribute to an increase in genderbased violence, a finding confirmed by media reports, official ... more

Transgender HIV/AIDS Health services

TargetHIV (2019) C2

Best Practices Guidelines Accessed: 06.11.2019

Climate change and mental health: risks, impacts and priority actions

Katie Hayes, G. Blashki, J. Wiseman et al. International Journal of Mental Health Systems (2018) CC

This article provides an overview of the current and projected climate change risks and impacts to mental health and provides recommendations for priority actions to address the mental health consequences of climate change.

Developing and Sustaining Interprofessional Health Care: Optimizing patient, organizational and system outcomes

Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) (2013) CC

For the purpose of this document, Interprofessional is defined as: Multiple health disciplines with diverse knowledge and skills who share an integrated set of goals and who utilize interdependent collaboration that involves communication, sharing of knowledge and coordination of services to provide ... more

Interconnected Disaster Risks

United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (2021) C2

Interconnected Disaster Risks is a new science-based report for the general public from United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security. It was first published in 2021, and is set to become an annual report.

Burden of diabetes mellitus type 2 and its risk factors in Asia from 1990 to 2019: Updates from the 2019 Global Burden of Disease study

Khazaei, Z.; Momenabadi, V.; Badrizadeh, A.; et al. Research Square (2023) CC

The mounting burden of type 2 diabetes is a major concern in healthcare systems worldwide. The purpose of this study is to investigate the trend of type 2 diabetes from 1990 to 2019 in Asia.

Health in 2015: from MDGs, Millennium Development Goals to SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals.

Ties Boerma, Colin Mathers, Carla AbouZahr, Somnath Chatterji, Daniel Hogan and Gretchen Stevens World Health Organization (2015) C_WHO