DHS Working Papers No. 101
Women’s empowerment, HIV testing, birth in past five years, Tanzania
The 2018 global health financing report presents health spending data for all WHO Member States between 2000 and 2016 based on ...te-to-highlight medbox">the SHA 2011 methodology. It shows a transformation trajectory for the global spending on health, with increasing domestic public funding and declining external financing. This report also presents, for the first time, spending on primary health care and specific diseases and looks closely at the relationship between spending and service coverage
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Global concerns: Implications for the future
Child Mental Health Atlas
Ghana's attempt to regulate health care waste management started in 2002 with the development of guidelines on ... medbox">health care waste manage-ment by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In 2006, the Ministry of Health developed the health care waste policy and guidelines. This guidance document improved health care waste management in the country.
With support from the UNDP-GEF medical waste management project, the Ministry of He lth has revised the existing National Health Care Waste Management (HCWM), policy and guideline, 2006 and has produced two separate documents- A National Health Care Waste Management Policy and a National Guideline for Health Care Waste Management
countrywide. This policy is replacing the 2006 policy and introduces new technical and administrative policy issues to enhance waste management in health care facilities.
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The results of in-country database and reports analysis
This article provides an overview of the current and projected climate change risks and impacts to mental health and provides recommendations for p...riority actions to address the mental health consequences of climate change.
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Assessment and Guidance for Strengthening Integration of Mental Health into Primary Health Care and Community-Based Service Platforms in Ukraine
Since the start of the pandemic, the region has been hit by multiple natural and biological disa...sters. At the same time, climate change has continued to warm the world, exacerbating the impacts of many of these disasters. The *Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2021, *also launched today, shows that the pandemic, combined with the persistent reality of climate change, has reshaped and expanded the disaster “riskscape” in Asia and the Pacific.
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The second edition of the “A Region on the Move” report provides an overview ...tribute-to-highlight medbox">of population movement trends in West and Central Africa in 2021. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of mobility in the region and showcase the versatility, multidimensionality and nuances of regional mobility in West and Central Africa.
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2018 monitoring report: current status and strategic priorities
The report sets out the status of women’s, children’s and adolescents’ <...span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">health, and on health systems and social and environmental determinants. Regional dashboards on 16 key indicators highlight where progress is being made or lagging. There is progress overall, but not at the level required to achieve the 2030 goals. There are some areas where progress has stalled or is reversing, namely neonatal mortality, gender inequalities and health in humanitarian settings.
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Opiates, cocaine, cannabis
World Drug Report 2017
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A new global Police Handbook aims to address some of the most difficult challenges that survivors of violence face when accessing police and justic...e sector services around the world.
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The GFF needs an additional US$2.5 billion from 2021 to 2025 to enable countries to protect health gains and accelerate progress toward the 2030 Go...als. Of this amount, the GFF urgently needs to secure new pledges of US$1.2 billion by the end of 2021 to help its current 36 partner countries protect and maintain essential health services and implement time-sensitive service delivery and health system improvements to enable a sharp bend of the curve back to a positive trajectory to close the gap to the SDGs.
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4th edition. A manual for clinics, community health centers and district hospitals