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    Survive breathing: reduce household air pollution to save lives and help the climate

    GRID Arendal, 2015
    In the early 21st century, nearly 3 billion people still lack reliable, affordable and sustainable access to modern energy services. They have to rely on various forms of solid fuel – animal dung, crop residues and waste, wood, coal and charcoal – to heat and light their homes and cook their food. Most of these people live in low- and middle income countries.
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    ‘Clean India!’ Miles to go before we sweep?

    Institute of South Asian Studies, 2015
    India’s urban population increases at about 2.5 per cent a year and will be close to 500 million by the next census in 2021. Urban sewage systems have to deal with nearly twice as much human waste as a generation ago. Sewers and water management have not kept pace.
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    Rural sanitation transformation in Himachal Pradesh

    CLTS Foundation, 2014
    The world remains off track to meet the sanitation MDG target. The key culprit for this is India. Against the global open defecation rate of 15%, in India over 50% of its 1.2 billion population continue to defecate in the open everyday. However, even in this dismal scenario, there are beacons of hope.
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    CLTS Foundation

    CLTS Foundation strives to create a world free from open defecation through collective behaviour change by empowered local communities - an approach known as Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS).
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    Promising pathways. Innovations and best practices in CLTS at scale in Madagascar. Towards an open defecation free country

    CLTS Foundation, 2014
    This book from the CLTS Foundation - with a foreword by Kamal Kar - describes their research into the process and practices of Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) as implemented by the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) programme in Madagascar.
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    Food Security

    The journal Food Security offers a mixture of original refereed papers taking a synthetic view of the science, sociology and economics of food production, agricultural development, access to food, and
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    Perceptions of dementia in ethnic communities

    Alzheimer’s Australia, 2008
    There is currently very little research into perceptions of dementia across culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. This resource kit is aimed at helping to develop a better understanding of perceptions of dementia within different cultures htat will play an important role in identifying the dementia care needs of many older Australians, their families and carers.
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    Alzheimer’s Australia

    Alzheimer’s Australia advocates the needs of people living with dementia, and their families and carers.
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    Dementia in the Asia Pacific Region 2014

    Alzheimer's Disease International, 2014
    The purpose of this document is to promote a greater understanding and awareness of the social and economic impact of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias across the countries of the Asia Pacific region.
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    Level of behaviour change achievable by handwashing with soap interventions

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    This rapid desk-based study assessed the level of change in handwashing with soap that can be expected from successful hygiene promotion interventions. In total, eight interventions were reviewed. Results showed that interventions increased handwashing behaviour by 14–67% when measured by observation, and by 4–46% when measured by self-reporting.

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