The Creditor Reporting System was analysed for official development assistance funding disbursements towards TB control in 11 conflict-affectedstates, 17 non-conflict-affected fragile states and 38 comparable non-fragile states. The amounts of funding, funding relative to burden, funding relative to... malaria and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) control, disbursements relative to commitments, sources of funding as well as funding activities were extracted and analysed.
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Primary Care: The Community Health System
In working to enhance public health system competency, capacity and public health workers' willingness to effectively respond to emergencies, the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness (JHCPHP) supports both training and research efforts in these areas.
Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS)
An update from the EU Early Warning System
To help health- and social-system leaders as they respond to unprecedented challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic, teams from the McMaster Health Forum and Ottawa Hospital Research Institute – as part of their contribution to RISE – and the Africa Centre for Evidence have compiled a list of... evidence sources.
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A COVID-19 virus mutation tracker system (CovMT; appendix) based on SARS-CoV-2 isolate genomes deposited to GISAID to track the worldwide sequencing efforts and the evolution of the mutational landscape of this virus. CovMT, which is updated daily, summarises mutations from more than 450 000 isola...tes into groups of generic virus clades, lineages, and more specific mutation sets we call mutation fingerprints.
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Explore the world's food system crop-by-crop from production to plate.
The consequences of the failing health system has immediate and longer-term impacts on children . April 2022
Available in English and Arabic
Jointly developed by WHO’s Regulatory System Strengthening, Regulation and Safety Unit and the Health Ethics & Governance Unit, it is intended to assist countries in evaluating their capacity to provide appropriate ethical oversight of health-related research. In addition to assisting in capacity-...building efforts, the tool is intended to promote policy convergence and best practices in research ethics oversight, to enhance public trust in health research, and to ensure that the rights and safety of humans involved in health-related research are adequately protected, both in ordinary times and during public health emergencies.
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Welcome to the Global Information System on Resources for the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders. These pages present data collected from WHO Member States in broad categories: governance, policy and financing, service organization and delivery, human resources and national informat...ion systems. The latest data were collected in 2014 with the WHO Global Survey on Resources for Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders (ATLAS-SU survey). The global information system presents all available data to monitor the progress in advancing treatment coverage for substance use disorders (health target 3.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030)
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Thir brochure provides information and advices about the german health system (health insurance, treatment, counseling, offers for sanspapiers) and sexual health (prevention of sexual transmitted diseases including HIV, counseling, treatment, contraception). Attached are adresses from different orga...nizations for more information.
Diese Broschüre bietet Informationen und Tipps zu den Themen Gesundheitssystem in Deutschland (Krankenversicherung, Behandlung, Beratung, Angebote für Menschen ohne Papiere) und sexülle Gesundheit (Schutz vor sexüll übertragbaren Krankheiten einschließlich HIV, Untersuchung, Behandlung, Schwangerschaftsverhütung). - Im Anhang: Adressen von Organisationen für weitere Informationen und Beratung.
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This research paper uses the Health Resources and services Availability Mapping System (HeRAMS) database to develop two composite indices – one for health centres and one for hospitals – in order to analyse and assess the health facilities’ performance across time and to evaluate the di...sparities among regions in the Syrian Arab Republic. The indices will provide an evidence-based tool for the main actors in the health sector to identify gaps, to intervene accordingly and to assess the impact of their interventions on the health system. The process of constructing the indices includes description and selection of variables, application of normalization techniques and weighting methods, and sensitivity analysis.
A literature review, analysis of the scope of the HeRAMS database, analysis of the crisis situation, data limitation and expert consultations were the main aspects of the construction process of the indices.
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CHEMM Intelligent Syndromes Tool (CHEMM-IST) is an online decision support system for hazardous materials incidents assessing the possibility of 7 syndromes based on questions about the patients physical state. Includes quick links to medical guidelines.
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These guidelines for the National Pharmacovigilance and Medicine Information System in Rwanda have been developed to ensure that safe, efficacious and quality medicines are made available to all Rwandans.
Policy note: Cambodia Health Systems in Transition.
The health system includes a mix of public and private providers. The use of private providers is much greater among the wealthy, while the use of informal-sector health providers is greater among the poor. Due to these circumstances there is ...considerable scope to establish appropriate public-private cooperation and to reinforce the regulatory mandate of the Ministry of Health (MOH).
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This study aims to analyze national and international stakeholders and their initiatives in Early Warning Systems in Myanmar, to identify priority gaps that need to be addressed by all stakeholders. It is presented as a first step towards supporting GoUM in information-gathering under the Myanmar Ac...tion Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction (MAPDRR), in particular under Components (2) Risk Assessment, (3) Multi-hazard Early Warning System and (4) Preparedness at all levels, and especially in implementing Sub-Component (3.4) Enhanced Flood Monitoring and Forecasting Capacities at Township Levels.
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Rehabilitation in health systems provides recommendations for Member States and other relevant stakeholders to strengthen and expand the availability of quality rehabilitation services. Currently, there is a significant unmet need for rehabilitation services and it is frequently undervalued in the h...ealth system. As populations age and the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases and injuries increases, and the demand for rehabilitation grows, strengthening rehabilitation in health systems becomes ever more paramount.
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Economic and social unrest in Venezuela have led the health system to the brink of collapse. Infectious diseases are surging as a result.
The Lancet Infectious Diseases Volume 19, ISSUE 1, P28, January 01, 2019
Flooding caused by the Tropical Cyclone Idai weather system since early March has affected nearly 3 million people and caused at least 678 deaths in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.