The largest global equity gap in health, is among children, and concentrated in communicable diseases. This note … examines the work of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) - a strategy to improve child health outcomes …, developed by the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Children's Fund - whose aim is to reduce childhood deaths …

Interest in environmental health has increased in recent years, largely because the most vulnerable groups remain … disproportionately exposed to and affected by health risks from environmental hazards. More than 40 percent of the global burden of … inextricably linked, but these links have been forgotten or neglected by policy-makers. The World Health Organization (WHO …

of pathogens spilling over from animals to people. To decrease their burden, we must focus on prevention. The One Health … approach proposes a way forward to reduce risk of spillover. Recognizing that the health and well-being of humans, animals, and … their shared ecosystems are interdependent, One Health is designed as an integrated, practical, multisectoral framework for …

2020 in response to the growing health threat of COVID-19 infections. In India, for instance, the national lockdown was … mitigate the health effects of the virus, which could impact economic activity and reverse observed recoveries …

In contrast with the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil's poverty rate is estimated to have decreased …

The goal of this study is to assess if literacy practices in the highest-performing education systems in Brazil are …