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This paper builds on the global experience and Mali?s context to identify an effective nutrition approach as well as … costs and benefits of key nutrition programs, as part of a resilience agenda after the crisis. It is intended to help guide … relevant nutrition-specific interventions, largely delivered through the health sector, and at multisectoral nutrition …
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. However, countries face multiple challenges in implementing, achieving and sustaining UHC strategies. Sharing and learning … focuses on some of the UHC-related challenges that the country faces in pursuing expansion and sustaining UHC. Vietnam …
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The aim of Health in All Policies (HiAP) is to bring diverse sectors together to find shared solutions; it focuses on identifying 'win-win' or 'cobenefits' such that policy measures contribute not only to improved health outcomes but also to outcomes desired by other sectors, such as education,...
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This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building … on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the … costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten effective nutrition-specific interventions. This will require an annual …
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associated with the quality of child nutrition. If using these food security indicators as proxy measures for the underlying …
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The paper provides the first large-scale survey-based evidence on the impact of the global food crisis of 2007-08 using an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this subjective indicator of food security remained the same or...
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Samoa currently faces two important public policy challenges in the health sector. One is to stem, and then reverse … that is effective, efficient, and financially affordable and sustainable. The two challenges are interconnected. This … discussion paper examines eight options to address these challenges. The eight options are the following: (1) increasing …
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There is widespread interest in the number of hungry people in the world and trends in hunger. Current global counts rely on combining each country's total food balance with information on distribution patterns from household consumption expenditure surveys. Recent research has advocated for...
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Peru reduced its HIV/AIDS burden by 43 percent from 2000 to 2010 due to the introduction of free antiretroviral drug therapy in 2004, and the successful execution of the 2007-2011 HIV/AIDS Strategy and budgeting for results since 2011. The national HIV program received significant external...
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Today?s adolescents and youth face substantial physical, social, legal, and economic barriers to meeting their SRH potential. Key factors underlying these issues are a lack of adolescent SRH (ASRH) policies and access to accessible, affordable, and appropriate health services. The impact that...
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