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World Obesity Federation

Changing the global obesity narrative to recognise and reduce weight stigma

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25 Feb 2023

Weight stigma, defined as pervasive misconceptions and stereotypes associated with higher body weight, is both a social determinant of health and a human rights issue. It is imperative to consider how weight stigma may be impeding health promotion ef...

ArticlePublicationGender, equity and human rights

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

PublicationCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesMental Health and Neurological Conditions+3

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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...

PublicationCancerHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care+1

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World Health Organization

Health Taxes: Policy and Practice

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01 Jan 2023

Virtually all fiscal measures influence people's health, through their impacts on behaviour, consumption, income and wealth. A narrow subset of fiscal measures, however, can be more directly aimed at improving health by targeting behaviours and risks...

PublicationCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingNutrition and food safetyHarmful use of alcoholTobacco useUnhealthy diets+7

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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. Rec...

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, environ...

PublicationCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetesMental Health and Neurological ConditionsHarmful use of alcoholHousehold and Outdoor Air PollutionPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets+8

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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 refugee...

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