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Key Considerations: Community-Based Surveillance in Public Health

Social science lessons on community engagement can, and should, inform the design of CBS programmes. The key considerations below highlight current best practices and understanding. These considerations are also covered in more depth elsewhere in the brief. 1. Pay attention to how ‘community’ is … See more

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Global Health Architecture: Current and Future

WebDFID is mapping the current health architecture and identifying drivers that will influence the future architecture from 2015. This report was prepared …

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A World at Risk: Annual Report on Global Preparedness …

WebFrom the foreword by Co-Chairs H.E. Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland and Mr Elhadj As Sy: “For its first report, the Global Preparedness Monitoring …

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Integrating social science into health and humanitarian responses …

WebAs we entered the third year of the global COVID-19 pandemic, 2022 was set to be another year of discourse about the social and political dimensions of health and humanitarian …

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War in the Gaza Strip: Public Health Situation Analysis

WebThe current public health situation analysis (PHSA) concerns the population living within the Gaza Strip and affected by the acute emergency resulting from large-scale military …

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Challenging Orthodoxies: The Road Ahead for Health and Human …

WebTwo decades of work delivering health care in poor communities provide a standpoint from which to challenge conventional doctrines in human rights and public health. These …

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More than money: reimagining health systems needs …

WebThat we redefine accessibility; mapping and placing health systems based on new analyses which consider gender and access among many sources of data which should influence location and service. Many have said that …

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Republic of South Sudan National Health Policy 2016-2026

WebWritten by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of South Sudan, the National Health Policy 2016-2026 puts forth new paradigms for health service delivery, health financing, …

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Prioritising Health Activities in Humanitarian Crises

WebMedecins Sans Frontieres list intervention priorities for refugee health for the emergency and post-emergency phase of a situation.Further resources, section 3, include papers on distributive justice and resource allocation, …

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Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Public Health

WebThe effects of armed conflict and natural disasters on global public health are widespread. Much progress has been made in the technical quality, normative coherence, and efficiency of the health care response. But …

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Health through People’s Empowerment: A Rights …

WebThe concept of “health through people’s empowerment” is proposed to identify and describe the core aspects of participation and empowerment from a human rights perspective and to put forward common strategies. …

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Strengthening Health Information Surveillance: Implementing …

WebThis case study explores the 2018–22 implementation of a national community-based surveillance (CBS) programme in Sudan. The programme was designed to meet critical …

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Public Health Risk Assessment and Interventions

WebThe purpose of this public health risk assessment is to provide health professionals in United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organizations, international and local organizations, …

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The Private Sector and Health: A Survey of Somaliland Private

WebSomaliland health facility records indicate that a Somalilander visits a public maternal and child health centre once in eleven years. Access to modern health services remains of …

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Guidance Note on Community Engagement for Cholera Outbreak …

WebHealth and hygiene promotion activities and messages, adapted to local culture and beliefs, should promote the adoption of appropriate hygiene practices, such as handwashing with …

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Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform

WebResources focusing on social science and social dimensions of humanitarian emergencies, including epidemics, migration and natural and environmental disasters. Including key …

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Health and Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

WebHealth and Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Download. Authors: Bloom Gerald, Henry Lucas. Published: 2000. The paper discusses strategies for meeting the needs of the poor in a …

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Health Shocks and Coping Strategies. State Health Insurance …

WebThe objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what are the household responses to cope with the economic …

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Social and Cultural Factors Shaping Health and Nutrition, …

WebMore than half a million Rohingya refugees, 60% of them children (UNICEF 2017), have crossed the border into Bangladesh, joining refugee camps or settling informally, and are …

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Balancing Burial Rituals with Public Health Demands During the …

WebIn Liberia, UNICEF s partners, in co-ordination with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), are distributing …

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Uganda National Technical Guidelines for IDSR, Third Edition

WebUganda Ministry of Health National Technical Guidelines for Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response, Third Edition (September 2021). These official guidelines set out the …

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The Public Health Act, Uganda

WebThe Public Health Act, Uganda. Download. Corporate Author: Uganda Ministry of Health. The legal basis for public health state action, originally passed in 1935. Health. East and …

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