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HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: Drug-resistant TB

Lesley Odendal (2013) CC

HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice No.202

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Nigeria: National Manual on Peer-to-Peer Youth Health Education

Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria (2013) C1

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Learning from the Ebola Response in cities: Responding in the context of quarantine

Campbell, L ALNAP (2017) C1

This paper brings together lessons from interviews with humanitarians and local responders, as well as existing literature, about the use of quarantine in urban environments during the humanitarian response to the Ebola Crisis

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Rwanda: Economic Development and Poverty Reductions Strategy II (2013-2018)

Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN), Rwanda (2013) C2

The Second Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS 2) is a launch into the home straight of our Vision 2020. We are faced with new challenges of ensuring greater self-reliance and developing global competitiveness. Conscious of these challenges, we forge ahead knowing that by work... more

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Global report on urban health: equitable healthier cities for sustainable development

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

This timely report comes at a decisive moment in history where we can reshape urban environments and health systems for the majority of the world’s population that live in cities. Enabling this transformation are the SDGs, which have reconfigured how governments and the international community... more

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Development and pilot evaluation of a home-based palliative care training and support package for young children in southern Africa

S. N. Naicker; A. Stein; L. Richter; et al. BMC Palliative Care (2016) CC

Naicker et al. BMC Palliative Care (2016) 15:41 DOI 10.1186/s12904-016-0114-7

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Namibia: National Public Health Laboratory Policy

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) (2012) C1

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Scenarios: El Niño/La Niña Impact on Indonesia

acaps (2016) C1

The report covers possible developments in Indonesia over the next 10 months (to end 2016). Four scenarios are outlined: Delayed Second Crop Harvest Delayed and Reduced Second Crop Harvest La Niña disrupts main rural sources of income Soaring rice prices The scenarios wer... more

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Toolkit on disability for AFRICA: NATIONAL PLANS ON DISABILITY

United Nations Division for Social Policy Development (DSPD) & United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) (2016) C1

Module 6

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Malaria Vector Control Commodities Landscape

UNITAID Secretariat, World Health Organization World Health Organization (WHO) (2014) C_WHO

2nd edition

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Targeting stroke risk and improving outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation in Latin America

B. StamblerI; F. ScazzusoII Sao Paulo Medical Journal (2016) C2

Identificando o risco de acidente vascular cerebral e melhorando desfechos em pacientes com fibrilação atrial na América Latina DOI: 10.1590/1516-3180.2015.0222110716 Sao Paulo Med J. 2016; 134(6):534-42

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Roadmap to improve and ensure good indoor ventilation in the context of COVID-19

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

1 March 2021 This roadmap aims to define the key questions users should consider to assess indoor ventilation and the major steps needed to reach recommended ventilation levels or simply improve indoor air quality (IAQ) in order to reduce the risk of spread of COVID-19. It also includes recommendat... more

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Following the money: Toward Better Tracking of Global Health Resources

Center for Global Development Center for Global Development (2007) C1

This report started with a simple question—“How can we tell how much funding is devoted to global health programs?”—and ended (more than two years later) with an answer that is far from simple. As those who have tried know well, tracking health-related funding is challenging in any setting, ... more

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Thematic study on the right of persons with disabilities to education

Human Rights Council United Nations (2013) C2

Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights | The present study focuses on inclusive education as a means to realize the universal right to education, including for persons with disabilities. It analyses the relevant provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Per... more

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Abuses and Denial of Aid Endangering Ethnic Minorities in Northern Myanmar

Refugees International (2018) C1

In northern Myanmar, nearly 100,000 people continue to live in displacement camps in Kachin and northern Shan States. Most were first displaced by fighting between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army in 2011, and many have been displaced multiple times, including in recent months. ... more

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Working with Children in Unstable Situations: Principles and Concepts to Guide Psychosocial Responses

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) (2003)

This document is designed to provide UNICEF staff and UNICEF partner staff with principles and concepts that can assist them to respond to the psychosocial needs of children in natural disasters and social emergencies such as armed conflict and other forms of violence. It aims to introduce humanitar... more

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Getting the Message Across

UNESCO's International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2019) C1

Reporting on Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific: A Handbook for Journalists. UNESCO Series on Journalism education. It explores the essential aspects of climate change, including its injustices to vulnerable communities, especially women and girls and least develope... more

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Diagnosis and treatment planning in child and adolescent mental health problems

B. Nurcombe IACAPAP (2014) C2

This publication is intended for professionals training or practicing in mental health and not for the general public. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Editor or IACAPAP. This publication seeks to describe the best treatments and pra... more

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Mental health, men and culture: how do sociocultural constructions of masculinities relate to men’s mental health help-seeking behaviour in the WHO European Region?

World Health Organization WHO (2020) CC

Men are less likely than women to seek help for mental health issues and are much more likely to commit suicide. This scoping review examined recent evidence published in English and Russian on the role of socially constructed masculinity norms in men’s help-seeking behaviour for mental health iss... more

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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