An update from the EU Early Warning System
EMCDDA Insights - 11
Accessed: 14.03.2019
During the past five decades, the incidence of dengue has increased 30-fold. Some 50–100 million new infections are estimated to occur annually in more than 100 endemic countries, with a documented further spread to previously unaffected areas; every year hundreds of thousands of severe cases ari...se, including 20 000 deaths; 264 disability-adjusted life years per million population per year are lost , at an estimated cost for ambulatory and hospitalized cases of US$ 514–1394, often affecting very poor populations. The true numbers are probably far worse, since severe underreporting and misclassification of dengue cases have been documented.
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Recommendations for a Public Health approach and considerations for policy-makers and managers
Research Article
PLOS Medicine | DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002253 April 4, 2017
Childhood obesity is a major public health problem globally, which could undermine progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Prevention is recognized as the most efficient means of curbing the epidemic; however, given the scale of the problem and the many children who need profes...sional support due to the severity of the disease and/or obesity-related complications, health systems all over Europe must take steps to develop obesity management systems. The aim of this project was to assess the response of health care delivery systems in 19 countries in the WHO European Region to the childhood obesity epidemic.
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Second Edition
AIDS Medicines and diagnostics services
July 2015
Desk Review and Recommendations for Private Sector Engagement
Strengthening HIV prevention among most-at-risk populations (MARPs) in the Syrian Arab Republic:
The objective of this document is to guide the preparation and implementation of national preparedness plans for the safety of substances of human origin during outbreaks of Zika virus infection, both in affected and non-affected areas.
Services, Identified needs and recommendations following the April and May 2015 Earthquakes in Nepal
Tropical Medicine and International Health volume 21 no 1 pp 101-107 january 2016