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    Responding to rapid population growth in Egypt

    Population Reference Bureau, 2014
    Egypt’s rapid population growth is putting pressure on the country’s economy and environment and is threatening the health and well-being of its people. From 1994 to 2014, the population grew by 46 percent, from 60 million to nearly 88 million—an increase of more than the total populations of Syria and Lebanon combined.
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    Review of targets for the Sustainable Development Goals: the science perspective

    International Council for Science, 2015
    This report is an independent scientific review of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets, as submitted to the UN General Assembly by the UN Open Working Group (OWG).
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    Factors associated with appropriate home management of uncomplicated malaria in children in Kassena-Nankana district of Ghana and implications for community case management of childhood illness: a cross-sectional study

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2015
    Home management of uncomplicated malaria (HMM) is now integrated into the community case management of childhood illness (CCM), an approach that requires parasitological diagnosis before treatment.
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    Catastrophic health expenditure and its determinants in Kenya slum communities

    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2015
    In Kenya, where 60 to 80% of the urban residents live in informal settlements (frequently referred to as slums), out-of-pocket (OOP) payments account for more than a third of national health expenditures. However, little is known on the extent to which these OOP payments are associated with personal or household financial catastrophe in the slums.
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    Addressing resistance to antibiotics in pluralistic health systems

    STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2015
    There is growing international concern about the threat to public health of the emergence and spread of bacteria resistant to existing antibiotics. An effective response must invest in both the development of new drugs and measures to slow the emergence of resistance.
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    Swine flu: challenges and impact on the Indian economy

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    The large-scale outbreak of infectious diseases can threaten the economic and regional stability of a country. In the recent past, HIV, H1N1 influenza (swine flu), H5N1 influenza (bird flu), SARS and Ebola epidemics and pandemics have affected people and economies of different lands. Swine flu has seen a worrisome spread in India recently. Given the
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    Environmental screening note for the proposed hospital development on Tristan da Cunha

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    This environmental screening note documents the findings of an environmental screening mission undertaken in September 2013 on behalf of DFID. The field work has been undertaken by an environmental specialist already engaged by the TDC administration on an independent mission.
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    Research in Gender and Ethics (RinGs)

    Gender-sensitive health policy is a feature of international commitments and consensus documents and national-level normative statements and implementation guidance in many countries.
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    mHealth and Gender: Making the Connection

    Research in Gender and Ethics, 2015
    The use of mHealth interventions withinin health systems research is increasing, with few taking into account the connections between gender and mHealth. This policy brief attempts to fill this gap by exploring key connections between mHealth and gender that need to be taken into account when conducting or implementing mHealth research and interventions.&nbs
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    Implementing the Basic Health Care Provision Fund in Nigeria: A framework for accountability and good governance

    Resilient and Responsive Health Systems, 2015
    The new National Health Act in Nigeria aims to substantially increase revenue and improve Primary Health Care (PHC) services through the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF). In order for this additional revenue to reach PHC services efficiently, it is necessary that strategies are in place to ensure accountability between the different stakeholders resp

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