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Every Newborn Action Plan 2014
Although the world has seen remarkable progress in the reduction of child deaths, each year an estimated 2.9 million newborns die during their first 28 days, often from preventable diseases and circumstances. To address this issue, multiple stakeholders h
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Psychological first aid: Guide for field workers
Psychological first aid: Guide for fieldworkers, released by WHO, the War Trauma Foundation (WTF) and World Vision International (WVI). Psychological First Aid (PFA) is an approach recommended in the IASC Guidelines for Mental Health and Psychosocial Supp
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Preventing violence: evaluating outcomes of parenting programmes
This document is a product of the Parenting Project Group, a project group of the World Health Organization’s Violence Prevention Alliance, funded by the UBS Optimus Foundation. This document seeks to increase understanding of the need for, and the proces
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European Report on Preventing Child Maltreatment
This report calls on policy-makers, practitioners and activists from across government sectors and non-governmental organizations to enact a new public health approach, which has been shown to prevent much child maltreatment. This study finds that althoug
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The Sexual and Reproductive Health of Younger Adolescents: Research issues in developing countries
The evidence base for what adolescents know about their sexual and reproductive health – together with evidence on the sexual and reproductive attitudes and behaviours of boys and girls living in diverse circumstances and on the risks they face – has grow
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Making health services adolescent friendly. Developing national quality standards for adolescent-friendly health services
This guidebook sets out the public health rationale for making it easier for adolescents to obtain the health services that they need to protect and improve their health and well-being, including sexual and reproductive health services. It defines ‘adoles
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Levels & Trends in Child Mortality, Report 2012
The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) updates child mortality estimates annually for monitoring progress. This report presents the IGME’s latest estimates of under-five, infant and neonatal mortality and assesses prog
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Countdown to 2015: Accountability for Maternal, Newborn & Child Survival: The 2013 Update
In 'Accountability for Maternal Newborn and Child Survival; the 2013 Update', Countdown publishes the latest data for 75 countries that account for over 95% of maternal and child deaths. The 2013 Update highlights country achievements in increasing covera
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Assessing Mental Health and Psychosocial Needs and Resources: Toolkit for humanitarian settings
This document provides an approach and a toolkit to help those designing and conducting an assessment of mental health and psychosocial needs and resources in major humanitarian crises. These could include major natural and human-made disasters and comple
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Violence Prevention: The evidence
This series of seven briefings for advocates, programme designers and implementers and others summarizes the evidence for the effectiveness of the following seven main strategies for preventing interpersonal and self-directed violence: (1) increasing safe
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The mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings
The Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) for mental, neurological and substance use disorders for non-specialist health settings, is a technical tool developed by WHO to assist in implementation of mhGAP. The Intervention Guide
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The Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young Adolescents in Developing Countries: Reviewing the evidence, identifying research gaps, and moving the agenda
The 2010 technical consultation hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) brought together a group of experts from a diverse range of institutions and organizations to identify and help fill the gaps in research, programming and policy-making for girl