the aid library

Plantetary Security in Search of Drivers of Violence and Conflict Part II

H. Visser, de Bruin S., Knoop J. , et al. (2019) CC

Inferences through Machine Learning.Background Report. What are the major origins and drivers of different types of conflict? Sorting out the main causes of conflict and war is difficult and often shaped by ideological believes. Even today, historians and political scientists have discussions on... more

Impact of climate change on human infectious diseases: Empirical evidence and human adaptation

Xiaoxu Wu, Yongmei Lu, Sen Zhou et al. (2016) CC

Environment International Volume 86, January 2016, Pages 14-23 Climate change refers to long-term shifts in weather conditions and patterns of extreme weather events. It may lead to changes in health threat to human beings, multiplying existing health problems. This review examines the scientific e... more

Understanding land-use change conflict: a systematic review of case studies

de JOng, L.; S. de Bruin, J. Knoop and J. van Vliet (2021) CC

Journal of Land Use Science, 16:3, 223-239, DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2021.1933226

Global Land Outlook Second Edition: Land Restoration for Recovery and Resilience

UN Convention to Combat Desertification (2022) CC

27 April 2022 Chronic land degradation: UN offers stark warnings and practical remedies in Global Land Outlook 2. GLO2 offers hundreds of examples from around the world that demonstrate the potential of land restoration. The way land resources – soil, water and biodiversity – are currently mi... more

Climate information for public health action

Thomson, M.C.; and S.J. Mason Routledge (2019) CC

Health systems resilience toolkit: a WHO global public health good to support building and strengthening of sustainable health systems resilience in countries with various contexts

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Climate change and health in small island developing states: a WHO special initiative

World Health Organization (WHO) (2018) C_WHO

This report has been prepared in response to informal requests by SIDS Member States and territories for WHO assistance in confronting the stark and dire situation which climate change has created in their countries and the impact it is having on their peoples

Polio Eradication Strategy 2022-2026: Delivering on a Promise

Global Polio Eradication Initiative GPEI; World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The marathon to eradicate polio is on its final lap: the world is more than 99% of the way to success. After millennia of living with poliovirus and suffering the paralysis it causes, today nearly all the world’s people live in polio-free countries; two of the three strains of wild poliovirus (WPV... more

Parkinson disease: a public health approach: technical brief

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

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 health outcomes of Ukrainian citizens, but designed in su... more

Behavioural and social drivers of vaccination: tools and practical guidance for achieving high uptake

World Health Organization WHO; UN Children´s Fund (2022) C_WHO

Tools and practical guidance for achieving high uptake

Global guidance framework for the responsible use of the life sciences: mitigating biorisks and governing dual-use research

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The Global guidance framework for the responsible use of the life sciences: mitigating biorisks and governing dual-use research (the framework) aims to provide values and principles, tools and mechanisms to support Member States and key stakeholders to mitigate and prevent biorisks and govern dual-u... more

The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic

Sachs, J., Karim, S., Aknin, L. et al. The Lancet Commissions (2022) CC

This Commission report aims to contribute to a new era of multilateral cooperation based on strong UN institutions to reduce the dangers of COVID-19, forestall the next pandemic, and enable the world to achieve the agreed goals of sustainable development, human rights, and peace that governments are... more

Global framework for the response to malaria in urban areas

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

Cities are uniquely positioned to understand local needs and respond rapidly to changing conditions to safeguard health. These changes require strong city leadership to implement multisectoral, health-relevant policies and public services that engage communities. The response to malaria must be an i... more

Protect the promise: 2022 progress report on the every woman every child global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (2016–2030)

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2022) C_WHO

This global progress report attempts to lay the groundwork for the kind of accelerated action needed. Section 1 presents key data, trends and developments in women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and well-being. That is followed in Section 2 by a deeper dive into the impact of the COVID-... more

WASH and Health working together: a ‘how-to’ guide for neglected tropical disease programmes
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

2nd edition. This toolkit provides step-by-step guidance to NTD programme managers and partners on how to engage and work collaboratively with the WASH community to improve delivery of water, sanitation and hygiene services to underserved population affected by many neglected tropical diseases. The ... more

Regional action framework for noncommunicable disease prevention and control in the Western Pacific

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The Regional Action Framework for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control provides a unified vision of objectives and recommended actions to combat the noncommunicable disease (‎NCD)‎ epidemic in the Western Pacific Region. Implementation should be supported by cross-sectoral coordination... more

In Control: A Practical Handbook for Professionals Working in Health Emergencies Internationally RKI

Robert Koch Institut RKI (2023) CC

The greatest risk to persons engaging in international medical emergency response is poor preparation. The In Control handbook hopes to provide a remedy. At the time of writing, we are living through the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a health emergency that disregards physical borders, brin...gs into focus social inequalities and affects people on every continent. This shared challenge requires unprecedented measures and the collaboration of the brightest minds to support global health protection through this crisis and beyond. Healthcare infrastructures have to be strengthened, public health capacities and processes upgraded, medical countermeasures and vaccinations found and psychosocial side-effects treated. Solidarity is the normative order of the day and the human species has to collaborate to face this invisible threat. Hiding and living in fear is not an option in this interconnected world. We have both a responsibility and an opportunity to make substantial contributions to a safer, healthier and more sustainable future for us all. The existence of this handbook is an impressive example of solidarity. Over 50 authors from more than 15 institutes and organisations have come together voluntarily within a very short time to make their expertise available and enable cross-sectoral thinking. Knowledge is bundled, resources are combined, information gaps are filled. The In Control handbook is not a theoretical treatise of possible dangers, but a collection of subject-matter expertise, written by experts and practitioners who have shaped health topics over the past 20 years in the most diverse corners of the world. The Centre for International Health Protection at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is collaborating with its partners and investing heavily in the build-up of operational know-how and capacity to support health crisis response abroad. This is done by preparing and enabling professionals to deploy safely across the world to assist those in need. In Control addresses the multi-faceted challenges of an international deployment. Readers will find not only technical medical information, but also insights into, for example, the fragility of our environment, the cultural differences that influence risk communication or the dilemmas arising from social distancing. Legal principles are highlighted, along with ethical guidance to ensure that our actions and decisions correspond to the highest moral standards. more

Financing Health for All: Increase, transform and redirect - The WHO Council on the Economics of Health for all - Council Brief No. 2

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2021) C_WHO

The world has been turned on its head by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This has provided a stark wakeup call on the severe under-financing of health systems around the world. It has laid bare the inequalities and limitations in the capacities of countries at all levels of develop... more