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Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives. That is, the range of food in supermarkets, small retail outlets, wet markets, street food stalls, coffee shops, tea houses, s...chool canteens, restaurants, and all the other venues where people buy and eat food. These environments differ enormously depending on the context. They can be extensive and diverse, with a seemingly endless array of options and price ranges, or they can be sparse, with very few options on offer. Because they determine what food consumers can access at a given moment in time, at what price, and with what degree of convenience, food environments both constrain and prompt the consumer’s choice.Food environments are influenced by the food systems which supply them, and vice versa. Food systems encompass the entire range of activities, people and institutions involved in the production, processing, marketing, consumption and disposal of food (FAO, 2013). They include but are not limited to food supply chains. Making food systems nutrition-sensitive can contribute to addressing all forms of malnutrition, as food systems determine whether the food needed for good nutrition are available, affordable, acceptable and of adequate quantity and quality. How closely food systems and food environments are interrelated and interdependent, and the degree to which external factors affect nutrition outcomes, varies from setting to setting.Many of today’s food systems and food environments are challenged in supporting consumer choices that are consistent with healthy diets and good nutrition. Consumers are not making choices based on nutrition and health, and poor diet is now the number one risk factor for death and disability worldwide (GBD, 2015). Food systems that do not enable healthy diets are increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of malnutrition (GLOPAN, 2016), and malnutrition, irrespective of form, has a huge cost. Economic costs associated with undernutrition are estimated at $1-2 trillion per year, about 2-3% of global GDP (FAO, 2013); the global economic cost of obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases is estimated at $2 trillion per year, about 2.8% of global GDP (McKinsey, 2014). Influencing food environments for promoting healthy diets is an emerging strategy to address today’s nutrition challenges. more

Guidance for the prevention and control of COVID-19 in temporary reception centres in the context of the large numbers of people fleeing Ukraine
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ECDC (2022) C1

This document offers public health guidance for the prevention and control of COVID-19 in reception centres, and other temporary accommodation facilities, in the context of the mass influx of Ukrainian people into the European Union (EU), the Europe... more

Antimicrobial resistance and causes of non-prudent use of antibiotics in human medicine in the EU

European Commission (2017) C1

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasing worldwide public health problem with important implications for the European Union (EU). When antibiotics become ineffective, bacterial infections lead to increased morbidity, use of healthcare, mor... more

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Public perceptions of intellectual disability in a shantytown community in Lima, Peru

M.S. O’Shea, J. M.Girón, L. Cabrera, et al. (2012) CC

Int Health. 2012 December 1; 4(4): 253–259. doi:10.1016/j.inhe.2012.07.001

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Not just in Transit: Drugs, the State and Society in West Africa

WACD West Africa Comission on Drugs WACD (2014) C1

An Independent Report of the West Africa Commission on Drugs

What works. Addressing COVID-19 misinformation: Lessons from the frontlines in 100 countries

Internews (2021) CC

A report demonstrating the urgent need to support groups at the local level if COVID-19 misinformation and mistrust is to be tackled effectively.

Born to Soon. Presentation

Joy Lawn Save the Children; WHO; et al. (2012)

The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth. Presentation

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DR-TB drugs under the microscope: Sources and prices for drug-resistant tuberculosis medicines
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Médecins sans Frontières (2016) C_WHO

4th edition. This report – now in its fourth edition – analyses the barriers and factors affecting access to treatment regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), including new and repurposed drugs. We provide detailed pricing profiles of... more

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Early Initiation of Community-based Programmes in Nepal: A Historic Reflection

Houston R, Acharya B, Poudel D, Pradhan S, Singh S, Manandhar M, Pokharel RK, Shrestha PR (2012) CC

J Nepal Health Res Counc 2012 May;10(21):82-87

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Ambulance and Pre-Hospital Services in Risk Situations

ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross (2013)

This report sets out ways to make pre-hospital care and ambulance services operating in areas of armed violence safer. Written by the Norwegian Red Cross with support from the ICRC and the Mexican Red Cross, the ... summarizes field experience in over 20 countries. more

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Ebola- local beliefs and behaviour change

Grant, C. HEART (2014)

What are the local beliefs and practices around illnesses and death, the transmission of disease and spirituality, which affect decision-making (around health-seeking behaviour, caring for relatives and nature of burials) and can inform effective be... more

Support Services for Survivors of Ebola Virus Disease — Sierra Leone, 2014

Seung Hee Lee-Kwan, et al. (2014)

MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report December 19, 2014 / 63(50);1205-1206

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Intervention On the road to peace of mind - A guidebook

Dr Nancy Baron War Trauma Foundation (2009)

An applied approach to the training of trainers who, in turn, train teams to implement psychosocial and mental health interventions in developing countries affected by emergencies. The film On the Road to Peace of Mind, used in conjunct... more

Empowering young people to strengthen sexuality education in Ethiopia

Julie Mellin, Aklilu Guulay, Eyerusalem Lemma et al. International HIVAIDS Alliance (2016) C1

This case study explores how the Talent Youth Association, supported by Link Up, promotes the integration of comprehensive sexuality education in school curricula in Ethiopia in order to enable young people to understand and claim their sexual and reproductive ... and rights more

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Improving Prison Conditions by Strengthening the Monitoring of HIV, HCV, TB and Harm Reduction (Latvia)

A. Kamensa, S. Olsena Latvian Centre for Human Rights; European Union (2016) C2

Mapping Report - Latvia.

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Improving Prison Conditions by Strengthening the Monitoring of HIV, HCV, TB and Harm Reduction (Spain)

C. F. Bessa, G. N. lazo, G. V. Sauret Observatory of the Penal System and Human Rights (University of Barcelona); European Union (2015) C2

Mapping Report - Catalonia (Spain).

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An Analysis of the Trends, Differentials and Key Proximate Determinants of Infant and Under-Five Mortality in Ethiopia

Negera, Assefa, Gebeyehu Abelti, Terefe Bogale, Tesfayi Gebreselassie, and Roger Pearson (2013) C1

Further Analysis of the 2000, 2005, and 2011 Demographic and Health Surveys. DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 79

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Levels and Trends in Unmet Need for Family Planning Among Adolescents and Young Women in Ethiopia

Gebreselassie, Tesfayi, and Pav Govindasamy ICF International (2013) C2

Further Analysis of the 2000, 2005, and 2011 Demographic Health Surveys. DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 72

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Rehabilitation of people with physical disabilities in developing countries

Sexton, S. USAID ; ISPO (2016) C1

Program Report for Collaborative Agreement: DFD-A-00-08-00309-00 September 30, 2008 -December 31, 2015

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#CostingEquity. The case for disability-responsive education financing

Christoffel-Blindenmission (CBM); International Disablity and Development Consotrium (IDDC), UN; et al. (2017)

The report surveyed 9 leading bilateral and multilateral education donors in respect of their approach to disability-inclusive education.

Guidance for the prevention and control of COVID-19 in temporary reception centres in the context of the large numbers of people fleeing Ukraine recommended

DR-TB drugs under the microscope: Sources and prices for drug-resistant tuberculosis medicines recommended

Guidance for the prevention and control of COVID-19 in temporary reception centres in the context of the large numbers of people fleeing Ukraine
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DR-TB drugs under the microscope: Sources and prices for drug-resistant tuberculosis medicines
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