Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (Twelfth Report: October 2015)
Special issue: WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health -Vol. 5, Issue 1, April 2016.This special This issue contains a rich collection of articles, demonstrating the encouraging scientific momentum to address ... medbox">the growing burden of diabetes in the region
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Early Essential Newborn Care (EENC) Module 2.
This report reviews the current situation in relation to national capacity to address NCDs and the progress made at country level over the past dec...ade. It highlights that, while progress is being made, there is still much work to be done to create the infrastructure, policies, surveillance and health systems response that will allow NCDs and their contributing risk factors to be successfully contained and reversed.
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Irresponsible pharmaceutical companies fuel the proliferation of superbugs through supply chain pollution, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) reports. ...box">The advocacy group uncovered lapses such as dirty production and inadequate waste disposal in the production of antimicrobials in China and India, which supplies most of the antimicrobials consumed in Europe. In a briefing detailing the pollution, the EPHA urges major purchasers of antibiotics to blacklist irresponsible pharmaceutical companies, demand that the industry clean up its supply chain, introduce greater transparency on the origin of antibiotics, and review and revise procurement policies from an ethics perspective.
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Globalization and Health201612:63; DOI: 10.1186/s12992-016-0195-3
This new publication presents the continuing and emerging challenges to children’s environmental health.