The report focuses on several key areas where health outcomes are falling short, and provides insight into ways in which countries can improve the situation for their children and adolescents. Areas in focus include mental health, overweight/obesity and adolescent risk-taking behaviour.
The report ...shows, for example, that:
- mental health remains a neglected subject – only one quarter of countries are collecting data on the number of children treated by a mental health professional;
- half of countries do not regulate the marketing of food to children, despite the fact that childhood obesity rates are high across the Region and physical activity rates are low;
- almost half of countries have no policy that affects the availability of unhealthy foods at school;
- 2 in 5 girls and 1 in 3 boys who are having sex do not protect themselves; and
one third of countries do not offer legal access to contraception without parental consent for those under 18 years of age.
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22.9% of surveyed Syrian refugees aged 2 years and above had disabilities (1,374 persons out of 6,003 persons): 13.8% in Azraq camp, 23.5% in Irbid and 30.5% in Zaatari camp. Understanding disability as the level of difficulties a person is facing when performing basic activities that could put him/...her at risk of not participating in society, the prevalence of disability found by the study was markedly higher than the existing disability statistics at around 2-3% to less than 10%, many of which used questions focusing on a person’s medical conditions or impairments.
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Disability. Assessment among Syrian Refugees in Jordan and Lebanon
Всемирный доклад о наркотиках представляет собой обзор последних изменений, произошедших на мировых рынках производства и потребления опиатов, кокаина, каннабис..., стимуляторов амфетаминового ряда и новых психоактивных веществ (НПВ), а также их воздействия на здоровье человека. В докладе рассматриваются факторы уязвимости различных возрастных и гендерных групп, а также новые тенденции на мировых наркорынках
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Ключевые показатели наркопотребления за последние годы почти не изменились, но такая стабиль-ность скрывает серьезные перемены на рынках наркотиков. Помимо давно... существующих нарко-тиков, таких как героин и кокаин, расширяется потребление НПВ, а также употребление в немеди-цинских целях рецептурных препаратов (которые появляются либо в результате утечки с законного рынка, либо производятся незаконно). Также растет потребление веществ неясного происхождения, поставляемых через незаконные каналы. Такие вещества продаются под видом лекарств, но пред-назначаются для немедицинского употребления. Спектр доступных потребителям веществ и их комбинаций сейчас беспрецедентно широк.
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Агенциятана ЕС за наркотиците (EMCDDA) представя днес нови данни за повишена достъпност на кокаин в своя: Европейски доклад за наркотицитеза 201...8 г.: Тенденции и развития, представен в Брюксел (1). Тази констатация е направена на фона на динамично развиващия се пазар на наркотици, който се адаптира бързо в отговор на предприеманите мерки за контрол на наркотиците.
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Globally, more people live in urban areas than in rural areas, with 55 % of the world’s population residing in urban areas in 2018. In 1950, 30 % of the world’s population was urban, and by 2050, 68 % of the world’s population is projected to ...be urban.
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The 2018 Access to Medicine Index finds that the pharmaceutical industry continues to mature in its approach to access to medicine, with models for good practice in areas such as access planning and licensing. GSK retains its No. 1 position, as Nova...rtis moves up into 2nd. Takeda rises furthest in 2018, jumping ten places to fifth
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