This guide aims to provide access to relevant, diverse and credible research on health challenges in developing countries. It aims to inform dialogue and the sharing of good practice by policy actors and decision makers globally around issues such as: infectious diseases; NCDs; injury and violence; maternal, newborn and child health; and nutrition.
- Investing in hygiene
- Although promotion of hygiene is the most cost-effective means of preventing infectious disease, investment is low both in the health and the water and sanitation sectors. Active involvement of the health sector will bring major gains to public health.
Latest Documents
- Gender and Vulnerability to Cholera in Sierra Leone: Gender analysis of the 2012 cholera outbreak and an assessment of Oxfam's response
- N. Rancourt / Oxfam, 2013
- While vibrio cholera is an ‘equal opportunity’ infection, it is not gender-neutral. Sex, age and social status are factors that may contribute to individuals’ vulnerability to cholera, by dictating social roles and b...
- How can enabling environments and processes for scaling up nutrition be cultivated, sustained, and translated into results?
- S. Gillespie; L. Haddad; V. Mannar / The Lancet, 2013
- In the past 5 years, political discourse about the challenge of undernutrition has increased substantially at national and international levels and has led to stated commitments from many national governments, international organisati...
- Enhancing nutrition-sensitivity in programmes in agriculture, social safety nets, child development and schooling
- M.T. Ruel; H. Alderman / The Lancet, 2013
- Acceleration of progress in nutrition will require effective, large-scale nutrition-sensitive programmes that address key underlying determinants of nutrition and enhance the coverage and effectiveness of nutrition-specific interventi...
- What interventions reduce maternal and child undernutrition and mortality, and how much will it cost?
- Z.A. Bhutta; J.K. Das; A. Rizvi / The Lancet, 2013
- Maternal undernutrition contributes to 800,000 neonatal deaths annually; stunting, wasting, and micronutrient deficiencies are estimated to underlie nearly 3.1 million child deaths annually. Progress has been made with many interventi...
- Maternal and child health: examining both undernutrition and obesity
- R.E. Black; C.G. Victora; S.P. Walker / The Lancet, 2013
- Maternal and child undernutrition, including stunting, wasting, and deficiencies of essential vitamins and minerals, was the subject of a Series in The Lancet in 2008, which quantified their prevalence, short-term and long-term c...
- Nutrition – everybody’s business and nobody’s business: Nutrition within Norwegian development policy
- L.E. Torheim; M.M. de Paoli; R.D. Bezerra / Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2012
- This tension – between Norwegian selfinterests on the one hand and the question of poverty reduction and social development for the world’s poor on the other - lies at the heart of this report. Nigeria is a very interestin...
- Global overview 2012: people internally displaced by conflict and violence
- S. Albuja / Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2013
- Over 6.5 million people were newly displaced inside their home countries in 2012, almost twice as many as the year before. Because these people have not crossed a border, they are not refugees and do not benefit from international pro...
- Is the bride too beautiful? Safe motherhood in rural Rwanda
- V. Chambers; F. Golooba-Mutebi / Africa Power and Politics, 2012
- Despite recent improvements in some countries, progress towards reducing maternal mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa overall lags considerably behind that of other developing country regions. Recent evidence indicates th...
- Intercultural Health Policies in Latin America
- S. Ruiz Cervantes / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Historically, indigenous peoples’ access to health services in Latin America has been limited due to a variety of social, economic and cultural factors. The misunderstanding of indigenous peoples’ world view and their defi...
- Food security and nutrition: the role of forests
- T. Sunderland / Center for International Forestry Research, 2013
- With a growing global population, much of the current discourse on food security is focussed on increasing agricultural production. However, studies suggest that food insecurity is not caused by lack of food production, but by inadequ...
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