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    Designing a social and behavior change communication strategy

    Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2015
    The planning steps included in this implementation kit provide guidance on how to develop a communication strategy for social and behaviour change communication (SBCC).
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    Sex workers and sex work in South Africa: a guide for journalists and writers

    2014
    It is important that journalists and writers write about sex work and sex workers in South Africa to raise awareness of these issues. Yet, regrettably, some publications have reported on sex work inaccurately or have compounded the stigma or stereotypes that attach to sex work.
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    Ageing in emerging markets: Emerging Markets Symposium

    The Emerging Markets Symposium, 2015
    The rise of emerging markets in the last half century has been associated with violent shifts in the tectonic plates of demography, economics and geography. There will be larger shifts in the next half century as emerging markets are transformed by the megatrends of globalisation, urbanisation, digitisation, climatisation, ideological conflict... and longevity.
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    Extension of social security long - term care protection for older persons: a review of coverage deficits in 46 countries

    International Labour Organization, 2015
    Due to the global demographic ageing, all countries are challenged by growing long-term care (LTC) needs for older persons. However, these needs are largely ignored and range very low on the policy agendas of most countries.
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    How healthy are the children of the Indian Sundarbans? Findings from the first Sundarbans Health Watch

    Future Health Systems research consortium, 2013
    What can be done to improve the health situation of children in the Sundarbans, a region with a population of roughly 4.5 million people?
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    The quality of death: ranking end-of-life care across the world

    The Economist Intelligence Unit, 2015
    In many parts of the world, hospice and palliative care is either non-existent or in its infancy, with about 5bn people living in countries with insufficient or no access to medications to control severe or moderate pain, according to the WHO.
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    An introduction to implementation science for the non-specialist

    BMC Psychology, 2015
    As healthcare systems work under increasingly dynamic and resource-constrained conditions, evidence-based strategies are essential in order to ensure that research investments maximize healthcare value and improve public health. Implementation science plays a critical role in supporting these efforts.
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    Managing the Ebola Epidemic in Uganda in 2000 – 2001

    ReBUILD Consortium, 2014
    Diseases such as Ebola highlight the importance of a holistic focus on health systems, as opposed to assuming that health is the preserve and concern of health professionals alone. This was the lesson Uganda learnt very quickly in managing the Ebola outbreak in 2001. This briefing paper outlines the essential elements of the Ugandan Ebola response in 2001, including:
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    ReBUILD Consortium

    The ReBUILD Consortium is an international research partnership funded by the UK Department for International Development.
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    Preliminary observations on social security and health care systems of the BRICS

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2015
    This summary provides some preliminary findings of research on social security and health care policies in the BRICS countries. Thus far, our research demonstrates some basic institutional information about the social security and health care policies of the BRICS countries, as well as about their complementary policy aims. Social security (old-age pensions):

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