Universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals in the WHO African Region
BMC Public Health, Volume 18, Article number: 303 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5208-0
Published: 02 March 2018
Regional Action Plan for HIV in South-East Asia (2017-2021)
Regional Operational Plan 2016 FY17 Strategic Direction Summary
2 May 2016
Third Stocktaking Report, 2008
Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS
UNAIDS 2016, Reference
HIV care and support taking into account the 2016 WHO consolidated guidelines
This booklet presents data on NCD mortality and prevalence of NCD risk factors, by country, for the Region of the Americas. The focus is on the 5 x 5 NCD agenda which includes the main NCDs (cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases), and mental health (suicide); as... well as the main NCD risk factors (tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet, insufficient physical activity), along with air pollution. It includes information on the number and percentage of deaths, age-standardized death rates, premature death from NCDs and the prevalence of NCD risk f actors.
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A new report by the world’s largest humanitarian network warns that the number of people needing humanitarian assistance every year as a result of climate-related disasters could double by 2050. It estimates that the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of storms, droug...hts and floods could climb beyond 200 million annually – compared to an estimated 108 million today.
It further suggests that this rising human toll would come with a huge financial price tag, with climate-related humanitarian costs ballooning
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The objective of this briefis to set outlinkages between food safety and the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs), to identify priority issues,and to suggest how investments in food safety can help attain SDGs.
Desta et al. Int J Ment Health Syst (2018) 12:38 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-018-0217-z
10 years after the UN general assembly special session on drugs
Vol. 7, No. 1 (2018) | ISSN 2166-7403 (online) DOI 10.5195/cajgh.2018.295 | http://cajgh.pitt.edu