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Educating for planetary health and environmentally sustainable health care: Responding with urgency

McLean M., Gibbs T., Mc Kimm J. (2020) CC

There is little doubt that 2019 was a defining year on many fronts for the environment. The repercussions of the climate emergency were experienced across the globe, with floods, devastating wildfires, and unprecedented melting of polar ice sheets and glaciers. While the new decade began with the Au... more

Learning from practice: case studies of health in strategic environmental assessment and environmental impact assessment across the WHO European Region

World Health Organization WHO World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Health is routinely considered in strategic environmental assessment (‎SEA)‎ and environmental impact assessment (‎EIA)‎, following requirements of European Union directives and the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Conve... more

Best practices for environmental health

Koren, H. Routledge (2017) CC

Environmental pollution, protection, quality and sustainability

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Brazil's health system functionality amidst of the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of resilience

Bigoni, A.; et al. (2022) C2

The Lancet Regional health Americas, vol.10 (2022) June 1, March 04, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2022.100222

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Roadmap for the Global Health for Peace Initiative: Draft

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

This draft Roadmap for the Global Health for Peace Initiative has been developed in response to decision WHA75(24) of the 75th World Health Assembly (2022), which requested that WHO develop, in full... more

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Public financial management for effective response to health emergencies

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shown that public financial management (PFM) should be an integral part of the response. Effectiveness in financing the health response depends not only on the level of funding but also on the way public funds are a... more

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A guide to implementing the One Health Joint Plan of Action at national level
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World Health Organization WHO; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO; UN UN Environment Programme UNEP; World Organisation for Animal Health WOAH (2023) C_WHO

The guide to implementing the One Health Joint Plan of Action (OH JPA) at national level provides practical guidance on how countries can adopt and adapt the OH JPA to strengthen and support national One H... action. Building on the OH JPA theory of change, this guide describes three pathways and five key steps to implement the OH JPA at national level: Pathway 1 -- Governance, policy, legislation, financing and advocacy Pathway 2 -- Organizational and institutional development, implementation and sectoral integration Pathway 3 -- Data, evidence, information systems and knowledge exchange. The stepwise approach comprises: Situation analysis including stakeholder mapping and review of existing assessment results Set-up/strengthening of a multisectoral, One Health coordination mechanism Planning for implementation, including activity prioritization and leveraging of resources Implementation of national One Health action plans Review, sharing and incorporation of lessons learned. more

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Travel and transport risk assessment: Interim guidance for public health authorities and the transport sector

World Health Organization WHO (2014)

This guidance document includes background information on Ebola virus disease, Ebola emergency committee recommendations, risks for different groups, and information for travellers from and to affected countries.

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Rohingya Response - Health behaviours & COVID-19

ACAPS; NPD; Analysis Hub ACAPS; NPD; Analysis Hub (2020) C2

Thematic Report– 3 April 2020 ACAPS Risk Analysis: COVID19 info@acaps.org

Change Cannot Wait: Building Resilient Health Systems in the Shadow of COVID-19

World Bank (2022) C1

At a glance. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed structural weaknesses in health systems worldwide and underscored the importance of building stronger, more integrated health systems to help prevent, pre... more

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Quality Assessment Guidebook: A guide to assessing health services for adolescent clients.

World Health Organization (WHO) (2009) C_WHO

Over the past few decades and throughout the world, the landscape of adolescent health has been altered dramatically. Currently, the total population of adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 years is 1.2 billion – the largest generation of you... more