The climate crisis has many consequences – among them widespread health impacts that will lead to immense societal, ecological, and economic harm.
Over ...>the past two decades multiple large-scale reviews on climate change and health have made clear the need for a multi-sectoral approach to target the drivers and impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem degradation. Despite this abundance of scientific evidence underscoring urgency of action, policy implementation responses lag behind. Even at COP26, itself delayed due to an ongoing pandemic, health continues to be considered by many countries a problem independent from climate and environment.
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An action research conducted in Bang Shau village Northern Shan State, Myanmar
The Road to Recovery. This synthesis report is based on three national studies on the evolution of the... Ebola epidemic and its impact on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
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Project Drawdown (2022) provides evidence of how climate solutions can also be win-win opportunities for meeting development and human well-being needs while boosting prosperity for rural communitie...s in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The report summarizes the co-benefits of five groups of a subset of Project Drawdown climate solutions (28 total solutions) for advancing human well-being in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries
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Cancer is an emerging public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa due to population growth, ageing and westernisation of lifestyles. In this piece, we use data from Mozambique over a 50-year period... to illustrate cancer epidemiological trends in low-income and middle-income countries to hypothesise potential circumstances and factors that could explain changes in cancer burden and to discuss surveillance weaknesses and potential improvements. This epidemiological transition deserves increasing policy attention.
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This report highlights the work of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Zimbabwe towards contr...ibuting to the triple billion targets in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs
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Resource Guide for Advanced Learning
This new publication presents the continuing and emerging challenges to children’s environmental health.
Washington, D.C., USA, 23-27 September 2018
Provisional Agenda Item 4.6
CD56/10, Rev. 1 31 August 2018
Original: Spanish
Report of the Review Committee on the Functioning of ...>the International Health Regulations (2005) in relation to Pandemic (H1N1) 2009
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A rapid review of evidence on the managing the risk of disease emergence in ...te-to-highlight medbox">the wildlife trade - World Animal Health Organization (OIE)
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Driving progress towards rabies elimination: Results of Gavi’s Learning Agenda on rabies and new WHO position on rabies immunization
this publication serves as a practical guide and useful resource for practitioners, farmers, scientists, and technicians to better understand the i...nitiative undertaken by GGGI. In this compendium, GGGI provides the latest knowledge and capacity building materials on these topics and offers information on the most relevant topics on technologies related to climate-smart agriculture and solar irrigation – both of which can be used as training materials.
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Links to the Humanitarian Charter and international law
This Joint Emergency Management Plan of the International Organizations (Joint Plan) describes the
interagency framework ...s="attribute-to-highlight medbox">of preparedness for and response to an actual, potential or perceived nuclear or
radiological emergency independent of whether it arises from an accident, natural disaster, negligence, nuclear
security event or any other cause.
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The magnitude of urban disasters, high population densities, and a complex social, political and... institutional environment has challenged the manner in which humanitarian agencies are used to working. Humanitarian agencies are now grappling with how to change their approaches to this reality. This desk review aims to provide an audit and analysis of existing needs assessments, response analysis frameworks and targeting approaches for use in urban post-conflict emergency response.
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