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WHO African Regional Office

Towards a Healthcare Innovation Scaling Framework—The Voice of the Innovator

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21 Feb 2023

This paper investigates the systemic challenges that African healthcare innovators experience&nbsp;in the quest to scale their innovations. The aim is to aggregate insights and to conceptualize a&nbsp;foundation towards building a&nbsp;framework that can be used as a guide by intermediary organizations&nbsp;and global partners to support collaborative innovation in African countries. These insight...

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United nations Development Programme.

Leading Resilient Development: Grassroots Women’s Priorities, Practices And Innovations

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20 Feb 2023

This publication—firmly grounded in the research and practices of its contributors— is a practical source document of ideas for readers studying and working on resilience issues.In presenting a set of grassroots women’s development innovations that build community resilience (and a framework in which to view these innovations),it celebrates women’sinventiveness asthey struggle to support...

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World Health Organization

Social innovation in health: case studies and lessons learned from low- and middle-income countries

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20 Feb 2023

This publication aims to provide a deeper&nbsp;understanding of social innovation in health. The summaries&nbsp;of the 23 case studies presented display the diversity&nbsp;of approaches social innovations have taken to address&nbsp;grassroots health challenges. The insights and lessons&nbsp;learned derived from this case study research cast light on&nbsp;the valuable role social innovation can pla...

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UN. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

General comment no. 14 (2000), The right to the highest attainable standard of health (article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)

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20 Feb 2023

The International Covenant on&nbsp;Economic, Social and Cultural Rights provides the most comprehensive article on the right to&nbsp;health in international human rights law. In accordance with article 12.1 of the Covenant, States parties recognize “the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of&nbsp;physical and mental health”, while article 12.2 enumerates, by...

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WHO

Another tester

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15 Feb 2023

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World Health Organization

Noncommunicable Diseases. A Compendium

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10 Feb 2023

Noncommunicable Diseases: A Compendium introduces readers to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – what they are, their burden, their determinants and how they can be prevented and controlled. Focusing on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory disease and their five shared main risk factors (tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and air...

PublicationCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetes+1

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World Health Organization

Global breast cancer initiative implementation framework: assessing, strengthening and scaling up of services for the early detection and management of breast cancer: executive summary

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03 Feb 2023

Breast cancer is the most common cancer worldwide and the leading cause of cancer deaths among women, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries. The Global Breast Cancer Initiative strives to reduce breast cancer mortality by 2.5 percent per year, which over a 20-year period can save 2.5 million lives. The purpose of this core technical package is to outline a pathway for incre...

PublicationCancerHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care

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Support Care Cancer

Establishing effective patient navigation programs in oncology

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30 Sep 2022

Purpose Recent advances in cancer treatment have resulted in greatly improved survival, and yet many patients in the USA have not benefited due to poor access to healthcare and difficulty accessing timely care across the cancer care continuum. Recognizing these issues and the need to facilitate discussions on how to improve navigation services for patients with cancer, the National Cancer Polic...

PublicationCancerHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization

Invisible numbers The true extent of noncommunicable diseases and what to do about them

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21 Sep 2022

Noncommunicable diseases cause nearly three quarters of deaths in the world.&nbsp;There are four major NCDs: cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease.&nbsp;Their drivers are social, environment, commercial and genetic, and their presence is global.This report reminds us the true scale of the threat posed by NCDs and their risk factors. I...

PublicationCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetes+6

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Journal of Migration and Health

Healthcare system responses to non-communicable diseases’ needs of Syrian refugees: The cases of Jordan and Lebanon

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18 Sep 2022

Introduction Since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, Jordan and Lebanon have hosted large refugee populations, with a high pre-conflict burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). We aimed to explore NCD service provision to Syrian refugees in these two host countries and to identify lessons learned that may inform the global response to the changing health needs of refugees. Methods...

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Science Direct: Trends in Food Science & Technology

ICONIC: An international task force supporting collaboration in nutrition and cancer globally

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15 Aug 2022

Background Cancer represents a major cause of mortality globally and by 2050 will be the major cause of ill health and death across the world, most particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). For forty years, there has been increasing recognition of the need to better understand how the modifiable factors related to diet, nutrition and&nbsp;physical activity&nbsp;can influence the...

PublicationCancerNutrition and food safetyPhysical inactivityUnhealthy diets

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International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)

Knowledge and skills reference guide for professional development in mental health care (2022)

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29 Jul 2022

This guide, which is a companion to the FIP mental health care handbook for pharmacists intends to provide an overview of the knowledge and skills needed for pharmacists to deliver mental health services and care.

PublicationMental Health and Neurological ConditionsMultistakeholder CollaborationAccess to essential medicines and servicesHarmful use of alcohol+3

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