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Agenda for the Americas on Health, Environment, and Climate Change 2021–2030

Pan American Health Organization (2021) C_WHO

This publication presents the Agenda for the Americas on Health, Environment, and Climate Change 2021–2030 (the Agenda). The Agenda is a call to action to the health sector to lead the charge to address environmental determinants of health in the Americas. The Pan American Health Organization (PAH...O) will work with Member States to achieve its goal and objective to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages using a sustainable and equitable approach that places a priority on reducing health inequity. The Agenda has been developed under the umbrella of the WHO Global Strategy on Health, Environment, and Climate Change, and builds upon the commitments set forth in the Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018–2030 and the PAHO Strategic Plan 2020–2025. The Agenda was developed in consultation with the Technical Advisory Group and through a consensus-driven decision-making process with Member States during the 2019–2020 period. Looking toward the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 3, the Agenda focuses on: improving the performance of environmental public health programs and institutions; fostering environmentally resilient and sustainable health systems; and promoting environmentally healthy and resilient cities and communities. Its implementation will be context-specific, based on the needs and realities of the countries. It will benefit countries and territories by promoting good governance practices, strengthening the leadership and coordination roles of the health sector, fostering cross-sectoral action, focusing on primary prevention, and enhancing evidence and communication. It will facilitate access to human, technical, and financial resources necessary to address environmental determinants of health and ensure that the Region is fully engaged in global health, environment, and climate change processes and agreements. The objective of the Agenda is to strengthen the capacity of health actors in the health and non-health sectors to address and adapt to environmental determinants of health (EDHs), prioritizing populations living in conditions of vulnerability, in order to meet Outcome 18 of the PAHO Strategic Plan 2020–2025 directly and several other outcomes of the Plan indirectly. To address and adapt to the challenges of EDHs in the Region, an integrated and evidence-informed approach within the health sector and across sectors will be needed, one enabled, and supported by good governance practices, adequate management mechanisms, high-level political will, and adequate human, technical, technological, and financial resources. more

The Essential Environmental Public Health Functions

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2022) C_WHO

A framework to implement the Agenda for the Americas on Health, Environment, and Climate Change 2021–2030

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Antimicrobial Resistance, Fueled by the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2021) C_WHO

Policy Brief November 2021 Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the ongoing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) global crisis due to the increase in the use of antibiotics to treat COVID-19 patients, disruptions to infection prevention and control practices in o... more

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Advocacy for mental health, disability and human rights: WHO QualityRights guidance module

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

The QualityRights training and orientation modules have been developed to enhance the knowledge, skills and understanding of key stakeholders on how to promote the rights of people with psychosocial, intellectual or cognitive disabilities, improve the quality of services and support provided in the ... more

Reopening with Resilience: Lessons from remote learning during COVID-19

UNICEF (2021) C_UNICEF

The COVID-19 pandemic led to school closures around the world, affecting almost 1.6 billion students. The effects of even short disruptions in a child’s schooling on their learning and well-being have been shown to be acute and long lasting. The capacities of education systems to respond to the cr... more

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Namibia: National Health Policy Framework 2010-2020

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) (2010) C1

“towards quality health and social welfare services”

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Guideline: implementing effective actions for improving adolescent nutrition

World Health Organization (WHO) (2018) C_WHO

The purpose of this publication is to facilitate the implementation of existing WHO guidelines on nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive actions required for improving health and well-being of adolescents. Implementing these actions should explicitly take into account the heterogeneity of adoles... more

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Rwanda: HEALTH SECTOR ANNUAL REPORT July 2013-June 2014

Ministry of Health, Rwanda (2014) C2

This report highlights key achievements registered by the Ministry of Health, affiliated institutions, implementing agencies both at central and decentralized levels in 2013-2014. Generally, the Health Sector accomplishments and programs routine data for 2013-2014 confirm that Rwanda maintains its p... more

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Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Americas Response Strategy and Donor Appeal January – December 2021

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2020) C_WHO

While much progress has been achieved over the past year, the Region of the Americas has stubbornly remained the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. PAHO is launching its 2021 COVID-19 Response Strategy and Donor Appeal to continue supporting Latin American and Caribbean countries and territories i... more

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Maternal mortality and distance to facility-based obstetric care in rural southern Tanzania: a secondary analysis of cross-sectional census data in 226 000 households

Claudia Hanson, Jonathan Cox, Godfrey Mbaruku, et al. (2015) CC

Lancet Glob Health 2015; 385: e387–95. Open Access

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International Maternal & Child Health Care - A practical manual for hospitals worldwide

Maternal & Childhealth Advocacy International (MCAI) , Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG) Radcliffe (2015) C2

The purpose of adding the books to the website of MCAI for download, is to make this life-saving, up-to-date information available to all who need it. Fill in a short registration field and you can download the pdf-files. If you work in a hospital in a low income country - providing free care - y... more

Global Report on Diabetes

Gojka Roglic, Cherian Varghese, Leanne Riley et al. World Health Organization (WHO) (2016) C_WHO

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Making every baby count: audit and review of stillbirths and neonatal deaths

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

The approach is in line with two of the five objectives outlined in the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP): Strategic Objective 2 – Improve the quality of maternal and newborn care; and Strategic Objective 5 – Count every newborn through measurement, programme-tracking and accountability to genera... more

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Nepal: Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Study 2008/2009

Pradhan A., Suvedi B.K., Barnett S., et al. Government of Nepal, Ministry of Health and Population (2010) C1

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Guías para la atención de las principales emergencias obstétricas

Fescina R, De Mucio B, Ortíz El, Jarkin D. Ministerio de salud pública y bienestar social, Organización Panamericana de la Salud, et al. (2012) C1

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Quantitative evaluation of essential medicines lists: the South African case study

Velisha Ann Perumal-Pillay & Fatima Suleman BMC Health Services Research (2016) CC

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WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience. Russian Version

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Рекомендации ВОЗ по оказанию дородовой помощи для формирования положительного опыта беременности

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WHO recommendations on maternal health: Guidelines approved by the WHO Guidelines Review Committee

World Health Organization (WHO) (2017) C_WHO

Updated May 2017
This document is meant to respond to the questions:
■ What health interventions should be delivered during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period?
■ What health behaviours should the women practise (or not practise) during these periods to care for ... more

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The People Living With HIV Stigma Index: South Africa 2014

HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council); UNAIDS; et al. (2015) C2

Summary Report Full report submitted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC)

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The Impact of Audits of Maternal Deaths and Near Miss at University Hospital of Mother and Child Lagoon (Benin)

BIB Hounkpatin , Obossou AAA, Tonato-Bagnan A, Hounkponou FN, Aboubakar M, Sehlouan C , Tshabu Aguemon C, Sidi IR, Salifou K, Vodouhe MV, Perrin RX Clinics in Mother & Child Health (2015) C2

The maternal deaths audit is one of the three major strategies recommended by WHO for the reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality. Objective: To measure the impact of maternal death and nears miss review on maternal mortality and morbidity after 7 years of practice at the University Hospital... more