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Haiti: Earthquake Situation Report No. 4 (7 September 2021), Relief Web Jan 2021

Haiti: Earthquake Situation Report No. 4 (7 September 2021), Relief Web

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This report was produced by OCHA Haiti with contributions from United Nations Agencies, Funds and Programmes, nongovernmental organizations and humanitarian partners.


Health & Climate Change: Country Profile 2021 Bahamas, World Health Organization Jan 2021

Health & Climate Change: Country Profile 2021 Bahamas, World Health Organization

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The WHO Special Initiative on Climate Change and Health in SIDS aims to provide national health authorities in SIDS with the political, technical and financial support required to better understand and address the effects of climate change on health. A global action plan has been developed by WHO that outlines four pillars of action for achieving the vision of the initiative: empowerment of health leaders to engage nationally and internationally; evidence to build the investment case; implementation to strengthen climate resilience; and to facilitate access to climate finance. In October 2018, Ministers of Health gathered in Grenada to develop a …


Health & Climate Change: Country Profile 2021 Dominican Republic, World Health Organization Jan 2021

Health & Climate Change: Country Profile 2021 Dominican Republic, World Health Organization

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The WHO Special Initiative on Climate Change and Health in SIDS aims to provide national health authorities in SIDS with the political, technical and financial support required to better understand and address the effects of climate change on health. A global action plan has been developed by WHO that outlines four pillars of action for achieving the vision of the initiative: empowerment of health leaders to engage nationally and internationally; evidence to build the investment case; implementation to strengthen climate resilience; and to facilitate access to climate finance. In October 2018, ministers of health gathered in Grenada to develop a …


Health Systems For Health, World Health Organization Jan 2021

Health Systems For Health, World Health Organization

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The purpose of this “health systems for Health” framework is to support countries, WHO and partners in bringing together capacities required for the IHR, and components of health systems and other sectors for multisectoral, multidisciplinary, effective management of health emergencies. It is an innovative approach that complements existing concepts and tools for global Health capacity-building, and covers different types of risks arising from biological and non-biological hazards and events.


Regional Desk Review Of Haemoglobinopathies With An Emphasis On Thalassaemia And Accessibility And Availability Of Safe Blood And Blood Products As Per These Patients' Requirement In South-East Asia Under Universal Health Coverage, Aparna Singh Shah Dr., Manoj Jhalani, Biju George Dr. Jan 2021

Regional Desk Review Of Haemoglobinopathies With An Emphasis On Thalassaemia And Accessibility And Availability Of Safe Blood And Blood Products As Per These Patients' Requirement In South-East Asia Under Universal Health Coverage, Aparna Singh Shah Dr., Manoj Jhalani, Biju George Dr.

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Disorders of haemoglobin are one of the most common monogenic disorders prevalent across the world. While sickle cell disorders are more prevalent worldwide, the thalassaemic syndromes including α and β-thalassaemia and haemoglobin-E disease are associated with high prevalence rates in the countries of the WHO SEA Region. This desk review was performed using data from thalassaemia societies, the nodal authorities dealing with blood product support, data published in the literature and data from WHO. Member states may find it useful to leverage the information contained herein to develop national action plans to address this problem in all possible ways including …


Global Status Report On The Public Health Response To Dementia, World Health Organization Jan 2021

Global Status Report On The Public Health Response To Dementia, World Health Organization

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Halfway into the implementation of the Global dementia action plan, the Global status report on the public health response to dementia takes stock of actions driven by Member States, WHO and civil society since the adoption of the global action plan, identifies barriers to its implementation especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, and highlights areas where urgent, accelerated action is required. The report includes updated estimates on dementia burden and costs globally based on WHO’s Global Health Estimates 2019 and the Global Burden of Disease study 2019. It also uses data submitted by 62 of WHO Member States to …


Fulfilling The Promise Of Palermo? A Political History Of The Un Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, Ian Tenant Jan 2021

Fulfilling The Promise Of Palermo? A Political History Of The Un Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, Ian Tenant

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UNTOC created a legally binding instrument governing international cooperation between law enforcement and judicial authorities to share evidence and pursue international criminal actors, and a framework for countries to update their legislation to be better able to investigate and prosecute such criminals. Its impact as a step-change in the legal framework against transnational organized crime is widely acknowledged. The paper highlights that the UNTOC did in fact bring those anti-drug and anti-crime efforts at the UN closer together, in spite of their different histories and personnel. However, the disparity between the political momentum and achievements of the late 1990s, compared …


Why Are Tourist Resorts Attractive For Transnational Crime? The Case Of The Mayan Riviera, Elisa Norio Jan 2021

Why Are Tourist Resorts Attractive For Transnational Crime? The Case Of The Mayan Riviera, Elisa Norio

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The relationships between tourist resorts and transnational crime are rarely analyzed systematically. This paper begins to fill this gap by examining how organized crime groups and individuals linked to them can take advantage of tourist resorts to commit crimes.


Proposed Refugee Admissions For Fiscal Year 2022, United States Department Of Homeland Security United States Department Of Health And Human Services Jan 2021

Proposed Refugee Admissions For Fiscal Year 2022, United States Department Of Homeland Security United States Department Of Health And Human Services

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This Proposed Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2022 Report to the Congress is submitted in compliance with Sections 207(d)(1) and (e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). This report provides the following information required by those sections: 1) A description of the nature of the refugee situation; 2) A description of the number and allocation of the refugees to be admitted, and an analysis of conditions within the countries from which they came; 3) A description of the plans for their movement and resettlement and the estimated cost of their movement and resettlement; 4) An analysis of the anticipated …


Preventing Violent Extremismthrough Augmenting Communityresilience And Empoweringcommunity Members In Swat, Dr. Muhammad Idris, Dr. Said Saeed, Sumaira Noreen Jan 2021

Preventing Violent Extremismthrough Augmenting Communityresilience And Empoweringcommunity Members In Swat, Dr. Muhammad Idris, Dr. Said Saeed, Sumaira Noreen

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Terrorism is the chronic issue of the hour. It is the disciplined practice of vicious activities like assassinating, slaughtering, mutilating, and frightening of the innocents to attain religious, fiscal, and political goals and to challenge the writ of the state. Leaders of the world promised to transform the planet by empowering community members and building community resilience (CR) against terrorism. This study concentrates on exploring building community resilience against terrorism, empowering community members and implementing strategies for strengthening community resilience. For data collection, a mixed method methodology was used. Means, STD deviation, Pearson correlation, and thematic analysis were employed for …