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Coaching Community Health Volunteers in Integrated Community Case Management Improves the Care of Sick Children Under-5: Experience from Bondo, Kenya

Wandabwa, M.S. ; Kabue M., Kasungami D., et al. , (2018) C1

Shortages of healthcare workers is detrimental to the health of communities, especially children. This paper describes the process of capacity building Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) to deliver ... more

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Community Health Volunteers' Decision Support System Project

P. Bakibinga, Kamande E. , Kisia L., et al. African Population and Health Research Centre APHRC (2018) C1

This report presents the key findings of the end-of-project assessment of households and community health volunteers, conducted in 2017 in the Kamukunji and Embakasi sub-counties of Nairobi, Kenya, for a Community ... Volunteers’ Decision Support System (CHV DSS) intervention project. The report was prepared by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC). The end-line survey was implemented by APHRC. Implementation of the CHV DSS project is a joint collaboration among several partners, including APHRC, the City County of Nairobi, sub-county health management teams (Kamukunji and Embakasi), and community health volunteers. The opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the donor organization, the County Innovation Challenge Fund for Kenya. more

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Planetary health in practice: sensing air pollution and transforming urban environments

Gabrys, J. (2020) C1

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Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change: Challenges, Opportunities and Evidence Gaps

Marselle, M.R.; J. Stadler; H. Korn; et al. Springer International Publishing (2019) CC

Climate change presents significant challenges to human health and biodiversity. Increased numbers of extreme climate events, such as heat waves, droughts or flooding, threaten human health and well... more

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Information to guide individual health assessment of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine - Considerations for healthcare workers

UNHCR; European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ECDC, IOM; et al. (2022) C1

The war in Ukraine will have direct and indirect health consequences on conflict affected people, including internally displaced people and refugees. Governments in countries receiving refugees are providing them with access to healthcare. This docu... more

Nation healthy cities networks

World Health Organization - Regional Office for Europe (2015) C_WHO

Promoting health and well-being throughout Europe

Water and planetary health. Protecting the lifeblood of human civilisation

Macklin, M. (2019) C2

Water is the lifeblood of planetary health and human civilisation. As a critical source of fresh water, rivers underpin civilisations, past and present. However, rivers constantly change in response to environmental and human pressures. Protecting g... more

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Mobile Health Units

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2006) C2

Harmonized health facililty assessment (HHFA)

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Combined questionnaire Core

Reforms in the Health Sector in Ukraine. Revolutionizing care: Ukraine's sectoral approach to anti-corruption health

Steingrüber, S. World Bank (2022) C2

Following the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution, Ukraine embarked on a national reform program to reduce widespread corruption within government. In the health sector, the government introduced several complementary reforms that aimed to improve the ... outcomes of Ukrainian citizens, but designed in such a way that they would also reduce corruption. The reforms included reconfiguring primary care financing and essential medicines reimbursement under the newly formed National Health Service of Ukraine; raising the remuneration of health professionals; introducing a transparent, merit-based, process for medical university admissions; and initiating development of an eHealth digital records system. more

Buruli ulcer : diagnosis of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease : a manual for health care providers

F. Portaels; Johnson, P.; Meyers, W. World Health Organization WHO (2001) CC

This manual is to assist health care providers and laboratory scientists to diagnose mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer). The manual aims to achieve a better understanding of the clinical presentation and its diagnosis. The methods describ... more

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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Person-centred communication for female genital mutilation prevention: a facilitator’s guide for training health-care providers. Training aids
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World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Training aids Evidence shows that FGM can cause several physical, mental and sexual health complications in girls and women, and in newborns. Health-care providers play an important role in suppo... more

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Prevalence of Schistosoma Haematobium Measured by a Mobile Health System in an Unexplored Endemic Region in the Subprefecture of Torrock, Chad

Layaye, D.; E de Bruijn, M.; de Jong, T.; et al. JMIR Publication Advancing Digital Health and Open Science (2019) CC

Schistosoma haematobium is a parasitic digenetic trematode responsible for schistosomiasis (also known as bilharzia). The disease is caused by penetration of the skin by the parasite, spread by intermediate host molluscs in stagnant waters, and can be treated by administration of praziquantel. Schis... more

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Role of APOC in the new strategic direction for Onchocerciasis elimination, co-implementation with Lymphatic filariasis and other health interventions

World Health Organization WHO; African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control APOC (2012) C_WHO

The Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa (OCP) undertook regional and large scale frght against onchocerciasis in West Africa in 1974 using a vector control strategy. By 2002 OCP had succeeded in eliminating the disease as a public health... more

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Gavi Alliance MS Roadmap for Oral Cholera Vaccines 4: The Market Shaping Goal Ensure healthy markets for vaccines and related products

GAVI Alliance (2023) C1

Geneva, 22 May 2023 – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance today published a roadmap* outlining critical actions needed to ensure supply of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) is able to meet growing demand from countries. Released against a backdrop of a recent wave of cholera outbreaks around the world, the roadma... more

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The Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons as a tool to promote the Decade of Healthy Aging

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2023) C_WHO

This report aims to outline the current available knowledge on the health and wellbeing of older persons in the Region of the Americas during the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030).... more

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Equity of resource flows for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health: are those most in need being left behind?

Martinez-Alvarez, M.; F. Federspiel; N. Singh et al. British Medical Journal (BMJ) (2020) CC

Since 2002 the distribution of external funding to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) has become more equitable and better targeted at the poorest countries and those experiencing the highest mortality. The aid envelope is not... more

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Financing Global Health 2017: Funding Universal Health Coverage and the Unfinished HIV/AIDS Agenda

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (2018) C2

In 2017, $37.4 billion of development assistance was provided to low- and middleincome countries to maintain or improve health. This amount is down slightly compared to 2016, and since 2010, development assistance for ... (DAH) has grown at an annualized rate of 1.0%. While global development assistance for health has seemingly leveled off, global health spending continues to climb, outpacing economic growth in many countries. Total health spending for 2015, the most recent year for which data are available, was estimated to be $9.7 trillion (95% uncertainty interval: 9.7–9.8)*, up 4.7% (3.9–5.6) from the prior year, and accounted for 10% of the world’s total economy. With some sources of health spending growing and other types remaining steady, and with major variations in spending from country to country, it is more important than ever to understand where resources for health come from, where they go, and how they align with health needs. This information is critical for planning and is a necessary catalyst for change as we aim to close the gap on the unfinished agenda of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and move forward toward universal health coverage (UHC) in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) era. more

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Spending on health and HIV/AIDS: domestic health spending and development assistance in 188 countries, 1995-2015

Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network Lancet (2018) CC

Background: Comparable estimates of health spending are crucial for the assessment of health systems and to optimally deploy health resources. The ... more

Person-centred communication for female genital mutilation prevention: a facilitator’s guide for training health-care providers. Training aids recommended

Person-centred communication for female genital mutilation prevention: a facilitator’s guide for training health-care providers. Training aids
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