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International League of Dermatological Societies

Global Psoriasis Atlas (GPA) Annual Report, 2023-2024

Report

11 Mar 2024

The latest annual report from the Global Psoriasis Atlas (GPA), detailing the structure and objectives of the atlas, as well as progress made in their four key research areas in the last year. One particular focal point of this report is SKINSCAPE, their 2023 skin disease field survey in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Together with international collaborators, including members of the Global Atop...

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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

Addressing noncommunicable diseases in emergencies: a regional framework for action

Briefs & Fact Sheets

11 Mar 2024

The Eastern Mediterranean Region faces numerous emergencies due to natural and human-made hazards. These emergencies disrupt health systems, increasing morbidity and mortality from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).&nbsp;The framework aims to integrate NCD management into emergency preparedness and response plans. It emphasizes maintaining continuity of care and medications, and addressing acute com...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetes+4

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International Society of Nephrology

An update on the global disparities in kidney disease burden and care across world countries and regions

Article

10 Mar 2024

Since 2015, the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) Global Kidney Health Atlas (ISN-GKHA) has spearheaded multinational efforts to understand the status and capacity of countries to provide optimal kidney care, particularly in low-resource settings. In this iteration of the ISN-GKHA, we sought to extend previous findings by assessing availability, accessibility, quality, and affordability of...

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International Society of Nephrology

Global variations in funding and use of hemodialysis accesses: an international report using the ISN Global Kidney Health Atlas

Article

10 Mar 2024

There is a lack of contemporary data describing global variations in vascular access for hemodialysis (HD). We used the third iteration of the International Society of Nephrology Global Kidney Health Atlas (ISN-GKHA) to highlight differences in funding and availability of hemodialysis accesses used for initiating HD across world regions.

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World Obesity Federation

World Obesity Atlas 2024

Report

10 Mar 2024

The annual report released for World Obesity Day 2024, by the World Obesity Federation. This report depicts obesity and its consequences. Rising obesity rates across the world reveal massive gaps in healthcare and nutrition, with poorest populations most adversely affected. &nbsp; Key Statistics: &nbsp; 79% of adults with overweight and obesity will live in Low- and Middle-In...

ReportHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPhysical inactivityUnhealthy diets

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HelpAge International

Caregiver Manual

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10 Mar 2024

HelpAge's Caregiver Manual - HelpAge International&nbsp;is a basic guide for families and volunteers providing care and support for older people. It includes: An overview of who this guide is for Section 1: Guide for the organisers, managers or trainers of volunteer caregivers Section 2: Guide for caregiving for older people with care needs Assisting with mobility Assisting w...

PublicationDisability and rehabilitationGender, equity and human rightsHealthy AgingHealth promotion+1
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World Health Organization

Investing in mental health

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08 Mar 2024

Mental health and well-being are fundamental to our collective and individual ability as humans to think, emote, interact with each other, earn a living and enjoy life. Yet currently the formation of individual and collective mental capital – especially in the earlier stages of life – is being held back by a range of avoidable risks to mental health, while individuals with mental health proble...

PublicationMental Health and Neurological ConditionsHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing
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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

Palliative Care- How Can We Respond to 10 years of Limited Progress (World Innovation Summit for Health Report)

Report

07 Mar 2024

The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) report, "Palliative Care: How Can We Respond to 10 Years of Limited Progress," highlights the slow advancement in global palliative care despite the 2014 World Health Assembly Resolution 67.19, which called for strengthening palliative care as part of universal health coverage (UHC). The report underscores persistent inequities in access and quality of...

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United for Global Mental Health

BRIEF: FINANCING MENTAL HEALTH FOR ALL

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2024

With mental health at the forefront of the conversation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunity for once-in-a-generation change is being presented. The integration of mental health into universal health coverage (UHC) reforms during the run in to 2030 (the target year for the Sustainable Development Goals which include achieving UHC) is being promoted as a key pandemic response, reco...

Briefs & Fact SheetsMental Health and Neurological ConditionsHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization

Infant and young child feeding

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2024

Key facts Every infant and child has the right to good nutrition according to the "Convention on the Rights of the Child". Undernutrition is associated with 45% of child deaths. Globally in 2022, 149 million children under 5 were estimated to be stunted (too short for age), 45 million were estimated to be wasted (too thin for height), and 37 million were overweight or obese. About 44%...

Briefs & Fact SheetsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthNutrition and food safetyUnhealthy diets

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World Health Organization

Household air pollution

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2024

Key facts Around 2.3 billion people worldwide (around a third of the global population) cook using open fires or inefficient stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal, which generates harmful household air pollution. Household air pollution was responsible for an estimated 3.2 million deaths per year in 2020, including over 237 000 deaths of children u...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesHousehold and Outdoor Air Pollution

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World Health Organization

Human papillomavirus and cancer

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2024

Key facts Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the name of a group of 200 known viruses. They do not cause concerns in most people, but infection with some high-risk types is common and can cause genital warts or cancer. In 90% of people the body controls the infection by itself. Persistent HPV infection with high-risk HPV types is the cause of cervical cancer and is associated with cancers of th...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancerCommunicable diseases

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