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Impact Evaluation Notes No.4 - Use of Impact Evaluation Results

David Bonbright, Keystone Accountability InterAction, The Rockefeller Foundation (2012) C3

This is the fourth guidance note in a four-part series of notes related to impact evaluation developed by InterAction with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation.This fourth guidance note, Use of Impact Evaluation Results, highlights three themes crucial for effective utilization of evalu ... more

Considerations for border health and points of entry for mpox: interim guidance

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

On 14 August 2024, the Director-General of the World Health Organization determined that the upsurge of mpox in a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes a new public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005)

Ten-Year Personal Experience of Using Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) Mesh for Inguinal Hernia Repair

Ravindranath R Tongaonkar, David L Sanders and Andrew N Kingsnorth (2013)

http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2329-9088.1000136 Trop Med Surg 2013, 1:136

Zambia's Community Health Assistancts (CHAs)

UK Aid; Clinton Health Access Iniative (2016) CC

Eradication of Yaws: Historical Efforts and Achieving WHO's 2020 Target

K. Asedeu; C. Fitzpatrick, J.Jannin (2014)

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases September 2014 | Volume 8 | Issue 9 | e3016 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003016

Promotion, prevention and protection: interventions at the population- and community-levels for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in low- and middle-income countries

I. Petersen; , S. Evans‐Lacko; M. Semrau; et al. International Journal of Mental Health Systems; BioMed Central (2016) CC

Petersen et al. Int J Ment Health Syst (2016) 10:30 DOI 10.1186/s13033-016-0060-z

Health Policies in Kenya and the new constitution for Vision 2030

Kibui A., Mugo R., Nyaga G., et al. (2015) C1

Child and Adolescent Health and Development. Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition : Volume 8

Bundy, Donald A. P.; de Silva, Nilanthi; Horton, Susan, et al. World Bank (2017) CC

Large File: 85 MB!!!. Please download directly from the website link

Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in children: Working towards results at scale

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2015)

The objectives of this guidance document are to:
1. Strengthen the capacity of country teams to effectively scale up and manage programmes to address severe acute malnutrition
2. Extend the geographic reach of quality treatment for SAM to all vulnerable communities in need
3. Maximize ... more

Mental illness in the Western Cape Province, South Africa: A review of the burden of disease and healthcare interventions

Jacob, N. (2018) CC

SAMJ Review Vol. 108 No.3

Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health

Robert E. Black, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Marleen Temmerman; et al. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development The World Bank (2016) CC

Disease Control Priorities –3rdEdition, Volume 2. This book focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age 5. It also covers maternal mortality, morbidity, stillbirth, and ... more

Tuberculosis vaccines: Time for a global strategy

S. H. E. Kaufmann, T. G. Evans, W. A. Hanekom FOCUS (2015) C2

Policy 25 February 2015 Vol 7 Issue 276 276fs8

Severe Acute Malnutrition Update: Current WHO Guidelines and the WHO Essential Medicine List for Children

Williams, Phoebe CM.; Berkley, James A. (2016) C1

This document was prepared in response to a need to review and potentially update the current recommendations for the antibiotic treatment of both inpatient and outpatient management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM). The current recommendations (Table 1) are based on guidelines published in 2013 i ... more

Social Anxiety Disorder

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (2013) C2

Recognition, Assessment and Treatment National Clinical Guideline Number 159

Elimination of human rabies in Goa, India through an integrated One Health approach

Gibson, A.; Yale, G.; Corfmat, J.; Nat Commun 13, 2788 (2022) (2022) CC

Rabies is a devastating and societally important zoonotic disease, which is transmitted principally to humans through the bite of infected dogs. This acute, progressive viral encephalitis has the highest case fatality of any infectious disease and kills tens of thousands of people annually, with chi ... more

Breast Cancer Control Policy, South Africa

Dept. of Health, Republic of South Africa (2017) C1

What you get for your dollar, “Effective Altruism” — What it is, how philanthropic foundations use it and what are its risks and side-effects

Karolin Seitz (2019) C2

This briefing paper provides an overview of the approach underlying EA, how and by whom it is applied and its problems and consequences. It concludes that policy makers, rather than be guided by its assumptions and conclusions, must instead concentrate on understand-i ... more

Technical guide for debris management - The Haitian experience 2010 - 2012

UN Development Programme (2013) CC

The building damage assessment, conducted between March 2010 and February 2011 by the Government of Haiti and the United Nations system, showed that more than 400,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed, of which approximately 218,000 could be occupied without repairs (green category), 105,000 were ... more