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Global Health Watch 4

An Alternative World Health Report

By: People's Health Movement,Medact,Medico International,Third World Network,Health Action International,Asociación Latinoamericana de Medicina Social,Health Poverty Action

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Global Health Watch 4

An Alternative World Health Report

By: People's Health Movement,Medact,Medico International,Third World Network,Health Action International,Asociación Latinoamericana de Medicina Social,Health Poverty Action

Global Health Watch, now in its fourth edition, is widely perceived as the definitive voice for an alternative discourse on health and healthcare. It covers a range of issues that currently impact on health, including the present political and economic architecture in a fast-changing and globalized world; a political assessment of the drive towards Universal Health Coverage; broader determinants of health, such as gender-based violence and access to water; stories of struggles, actions and change; and a scrutiny of a range of global institutions and processes. It integrates rigorous analysis, alternative proposals and stories of struggle and change to present a compelling case for a radical transformation of the way we approach actions and policies on health.

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1783602562

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Global Health Watch 5

An Alternative World Health Report

By: People's Health Movement,Medact,Third World Network,Health Poverty Action,Medico International,Asociación Latinoamericana de Medicina Social

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Global Health Watch 5

An Alternative World Health Report

By: People's Health Movement,Medact,Third World Network,Health Poverty Action,Medico International,Asociación Latinoamericana de Medicina Social

For over a decade, Global Health Watch has been the definitive source for alternative analysis on health. This new edition addresses the key challenges facing governments and health practitioners today, within the context of rapid shifts in global governance mechanisms and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Like its predecessors, it challenges conventional wisdom while pioneering innovative new approaches to the field. Collaboratively written by academics and activists drawn from a variety of movements, research institutions and civil society groups, it covers some of the most pressing issues in world health, from the resurgence of epidemic diseases such as Ebola to the crisis in the WHO, climate change and the ‘war on drugs’. Combining rigorous analysis with practical policy suggestions, Global Health Watch 5 offers an accessible and compelling case for a radical new approach to health and healthcare across the world.

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1786992264

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Investing in Young Children for Peaceful Societies

Proceedings of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; UNICEF; and the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID)

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Board on Global Health,Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally

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Investing in Young Children for Peaceful Societies

With the worst human refugee crisis since World War II as the backdrop, from March 16 through March 18, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in partnership with UNICEF and the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Center for Inter-religious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID), held a workshop in Amman, Jordan, to explore topics related to investing in young children for peaceful societies. Over the course of the workshop, researchers, policy makers, program practitioners, funders, youth, and other experts came together to understand the effects of conflict and violence on children, women, and youth across areas of health, education, nutrition, social protection, and other domains. The goal of the workshop was to continue to fill in gaps in knowledge and explore opportunities for discourse through a process of highlighting the science and practice. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

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National Academies Press

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0309449308

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9780309449304

The project has ended but we can still learn from it! Practical guidance for conducting post-project evaluations of adolescent sexual and reproductive health projects

By: World Health Organization

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The project has ended but we can still learn from it! Practical guidance for conducting post-project evaluations of adolescent sexual and reproductive health projects

By: World Health Organization

In many countries, initiatives that aim to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) implement projects without well thought out plans for evaluation. As a result, baselines and endlines may not exist, there is no comparison of the project area to a non-intervention area, and implementation monitoring data may not provide much information on quality and other less easily counted impacts or results of implementation. This lack of evaluation limits the ability to demonstrate what was achieved, what approaches worked, and what approaches did not work, thus losing out on critical learnings. Many ASRH projects encounter and address policy and programmatic challenges, and in doing so, learn valuable lessons. Since careful documentation and rigorous evaluation are the exception rather than the norm, though, the lessons from these efforts are not extracted and placed in the public arena. Post-project evaluations thus have a role to complement prospective studies for new or follow-on projects. However, there is a lack of guidance and literature on post-project evaluations, and that technical guidance from funding agencies for conducting post-project evaluation is rare. To begin to bridge this gap more formally, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed this practical guide for conducting post-project evaluations of ASRH projects.

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World Health Organization

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9241516569

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9789241516563

Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2019

Placing nutrition at the centre of social protection

By: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,United Nations International Children Emergency Fund,World Food Program,World Health Organization

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Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2019

Placing nutrition at the centre of social protection

By: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,United Nations International Children Emergency Fund,World Food Program,World Health Organization

Asia-Pacific is home to well over half of all people worldwide who do not obtain sufficient dietary energy to maintain normal, active, healthy lives. To achieve SDG 2 in the region, more than 3 million people must escape hunger each month from now until December 2030. In most countries in the region, the diets of more than half of all very young children (aged 6–23 months) fail to meet minimum standards of diversity, leading to micronutrient deficiencies that affect child development and therefore the potential of future generations. The high prevalence of stunting and wasting among children under five years of age is a result of these deficiencies. Only four countries in the region are on track to meet the global target of a 40 percent reduction in the number of stunted children between 2012 and 2025.At the same time, the prevalence of overweight and obesity is rising steadily among children and adults, negatively affecting health and well-being. Addressing the resultant burden of diet-related non-communicable diseases places great strain on national healthcare budgets and also causes productivity losses. Social protection is an important way of reducing inequality and mitigating the impacts of disasters, and it is expanding in the region. A special section of this report discusses how to develop social protection programmes that accelerate progress in eradicating hunger and malnutrition.

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Food & Agriculture Org.

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9251319804

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9789251319802

Europe and Central Asia – Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2022

Repurposing policies and incentives to make healthy diets more affordable and agrifood systems more environmentally sustainable

By: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,International Fund for Agricultural Development,United Nations Children's Fund,United Nations,United Nations Development Programme,World Food Programme,World Health Organization,World Meteorological Organization

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Europe and Central Asia – Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2022

Repurposing policies and incentives to make healthy diets more affordable and agrifood systems more environmentally sustainable

This report presents the latest updates related to food security and nutrition in Europe and Central Asia, including estimates on the cost and affordability of healthy diets. It also explores how governments are supporting the food and agriculture sector and how to repurpose policies and incentives to make healthy diets more affordable and agrifood systems more environmentally sustainable. The new estimates confirm that the prevalence of hunger at chronic or severe levels is relatively low in the ECA region, through the prevalence of food insecurity at moderate or severe levels can be quite high. The region is seeing alarmingly high – and rising – rates of overweight and obesity. The COVID-19 pandemic has added 25.5 million people in the region to the ranks of the moderately or severely food insecure, leaving them without access to safe, nutritious and adequate food. The war in Ukraine has made the situation worse. Almost all ECA subregions are experiencing increased costs and reduced affordability of healthy diets because of higher food prices and lower incomes. This report contains an in-depth analysis of the repurposing of food and agricultural policies to ensure the food systems transformation is better suited to addressing the “triple challenge” of achieving food security and good nutrition for better health, providing livelihoods to farmers and others connected to the sector, and reducing the nature and climate footprint of the sector. This report also reviews complementing policies within and outside of agrifood systems to assess whether repurposing efforts are impactful in the ECA region.

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Food & Agriculture Org.

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9251376018

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9789251376010

Research Priorities for the Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Technical Report of the TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty

By: TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty,World Health Organization

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Research Priorities for the Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Technical Report of the TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty

By: TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty,World Health Organization

The Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty (TRG 4) addresses the nature of the intersections and interactions between environment, agriculture and infectious diseases of poverty in order to identify research priorities for improved disease control. This report reviews the connections between environmental change, modern agricultural practices and the occurrence of infectious diseases--especially those of poverty--and proposes a methodology that can be used to prioritize research on such diseases. Although there is some comprehension of the underlying and growing systemic influence of today s large-scale social and environmental changes on some infectious diseases, the significance and potential future impacts of these changes are poorly understood. Nevertheless, such changes now constitute a significant influence on the working of the Earth's systems that will have increasing consequences for patterns of occurrence of infectious diseases. Many of these changes are illustrated in this report. A common theme of this report is bidirectional causation, effectively "trapping" complex, linked eco-social systems in stable states that are resistant to intervention. For example, poverty is associated with ill health, low education and often with poor diets, either because of under-nutrition (and diarrhoea) or intakes that have excessive calories but insufficient micronutrients. In either case, poverty impairs health; and ill health impairs the escape from poverty. Another example is provided by a recent abundant agricultural harvest in India that has far exceeded storage capacity. A substantial fraction of this harvest will be wasted due to inadequate storage. Some grain that is badly stored will be contaminated by aflatoxins and other fungi, which increases the risk of cancer. This report presents the case for a more integrated approach across sectors, research disciplines and diseases, taking greater account of the increasingly widespread and systemic influences on disease emergence and spread.

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Global Health Watch 4

Global Health Watch 4

Global Health Watch 5

Global Health Watch 5

Investing in Young Children for Peaceful Societies

Investing in Young Children for Peaceful Societies

The project has ended but we can still learn from it! Practical guidance for conducting post-project evaluations of adolescent sexual and reproductive health projects

The project has ended but we can still learn from it! Practical guidance for conducting post-project evaluations of adolescent sexual and reproductive health projects

Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2019

Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2019

Europe and Central Asia – Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2022

Europe and Central Asia – Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2022

Research Priorities for the Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Research Priorities for the Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty

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