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    Mental health action plan 2013 - 2020

    World Health Organization, 2013
    This report recognises the essential role of mental health in achieving health for all people.
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    The importance of mental health in the Sustainable Development Goals

    British Journal of Psychiatry, 2015
    This paper argues that, in the context of a growing burden of disease due to mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities, there needs to be the inclusion of a clear mental health target and indicators in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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    Including mental health among the new sustainable development goals

    British Medical Journal, 2014
    This short article argues the case for including mental health among the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), highlighting how the issue interlinks with many of the suggested Goals.
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    Who pays for progress? The role of domestic resource mobilisation and development assistance in financing health. A case study from Kenya

    RESULTS UK, 2015
    Kenya has one of the most vibrant economies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economic growth is strong, and in 2014 it was announced that Kenya had crossed the threshold from a ‘low-Income country’ to a ‘lower-middle-Income country’ (LMIC). Yet, 43% of the people live on less than $1.25 a day and in some parts of Kenya only 28% of infants are fully immunised.
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    Are service-delivery NGOs building state capacity in the global south?: experiences from HIV/AIDS programmes in rural Uganda

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2013
    It is argued that NGOs, through their technocratic interventions, can have progressive impacts on political processes in developing countries. This paper investigates the role of service delivery NGOs in building state capacity in the global south, examining a Ugandan NGO called the AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) as a case study.
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    Maternity Protection Resource Package

    International Labour Organization, 2015
    The Maternity Protection Resource Package provides guidance and tools to strengthen and extend maternity protection to all women in all types of economic activity. It is designed to:
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    Program on the Global Demography of Aging at Harvard University (PGDA)

    The Program on the Global Demography of Aging (PGDA) carries out research on important themes related to global aging and health, with an emphasis on issues in the developing world.
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    The contribution of female health to economic development

    Program on the Global Demography of Aging at Harvard University, 2015
    This paper analyses the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing it introduces a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which the authors allow for health-related gender di¤erences in productivity.
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    The political economy of inclusive healthcare in Cambodia

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    Over the past 15 years, Cambodia has made significant strides in expanding effective access to free healthcare for poor people, thanks largely to ‘Health Equity Funds’ (HEFs), a multi-stakeholder health-financing mechanism. This paper argues that HEFs have been a relatively successful mechanism for expanding access to free healthcare to the poor.
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    We can also make change: piloting participatory research with persons with disabilities and older people in Bangladesh

    HelpAge International, 2015
    The aim of the research presented in this report was to understand better the experiences of social, political and economic exclusion of persons with disabilities and older people in Bangladesh from their own perspectives. Although the facts of exclusion are widely documented, the reality of it is less well understood.

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