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Technical briefing

Practical Guide: Applying sustainable development to arms-transfer decisions

01/04/2009

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of conflict, armed crime, and all forms of armed violence around the world is apparent for all to see. Armed violence closes schools, paralyses communities, burdens health-care systems, discourages investment and economic activity, and makes lives and livelihoods less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public […]

Book

The Doctor Go Round

01/01/1977

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

What can be done to achieve adequate health care for the huge numbers of people in the world who now receive little or none? While a person in Britain receives more doctor-care in a year than the average Ethiopian can expect in a lifetime, what kind of health programmes are needed to bridge the gap? […]

Journal article

Viewpoint

01/11/2003

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘Primary Health Care: can the dream be revived?’. 12 September 2003 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of WHOs Alma Ata Health for All (HfA) by the Year 2000 Strategy. The strategy reflected an optimism that health could improve for poor and disadvantaged peoples around the world through the provision of comprehensive primary health care […]

Journal article

Using key informant monitoring in safe motherhood programming in Nepal

01/04/2005

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the methodology and application of the Key Informant Monitoring (KIM) tool as used by the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP). NSMP aims to achieve a sustained increase in the uptake of midwifery and essential obstetric care services by addressing, among other things, constraints on access to such services. Data collected by community-based […]

Journal article

Sexual-health communication across and within cultures: the Clown Project, Guatemala

01/06/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The synergies created through the careful application of both organic and symbolic communication demonstrably reach those most vulnerable to the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS. The Clown Project uses labour-intensive face-to-face street theatre and dialogue, participatory workshops, and symbolic communication such as print-based materials. Some lessons learned in selected communities in Guatemala and […]

Journal article

Is liberalisation damaging Albanian women’s health?

01/10/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Is liberalisation damaging Albanian women’s health?

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Overview

This article shows how Albanian women are taking active control of daily struggles brought about by an unstable political system and paramount shifts in social and economic structures. How do women take care of the material needs of their family when resources are scarce? How do they cope with no basic health care, lack of […]

Journal article

Safe motherhood’, family planning and maternal mortality: an Indonesian case study

01/06/1994

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Safe motherhood’, family planning and maternal mortality: an Indonesian case study

Keywords

Overview

Smyth uncovers the pros and cons of family planning as a way of reducing maternal mortality. She finds no evidence that such a link exists in Indonesia. The ‘Safe Motherhood’ programme in Indonesia focuses on family planning for women at high risk. But the programme excludes unmarried women, sex workers, and ill or infertile women, […]

Journal article

We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

01/03/2000

10 pages long

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We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

Keywords

Overview

A team of researchers talked to people living in poverty in Ethiopia to ascertain what stops them from gaining access to affordable, good quality basic health-care services, reproductive health-care services, and primary education. The research findings shed new light on the linkages between limited access to basic services and poverty, low incomes, insecure livelihoods, and […]

Journal article

Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali

01/07/2001

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali

Keywords

Overview

This article is based on a study conducted in Samé, a squatter settlement on the outskirts of Bamako, capital of Mali. The objective was to observe how individuals and their families ensure health and well-being through organising everyday life in their compounds (the basic housing unit in African cities). The compound is mainly a female […]

Journal article

Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

01/05/2003

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

Keywords

Overview

The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the latest international development strategy. At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the Millennium Declaration, signed by all UN member countries, set out a number of Millennium Development Goals. . The debates around the choice of MDGs, and the first steps of implementation, have threatened to push many […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Technical briefing

Practical Guide: Applying sustainable development to arms-transfer decisions

01/04/2009

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of conflict, armed crime, and all forms of armed violence around the world is apparent for all to see. Armed violence closes schools, paralyses communities, burdens health-care systems, discourages investment and economic activity, and makes lives and livelihoods less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public […]

Book

The Doctor Go Round

01/01/1977

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

What can be done to achieve adequate health care for the huge numbers of people in the world who now receive little or none? While a person in Britain receives more doctor-care in a year than the average Ethiopian can expect in a lifetime, what kind of health programmes are needed to bridge the gap? […]

Journal article

Viewpoint

01/11/2003

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘Primary Health Care: can the dream be revived?’. 12 September 2003 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of WHOs Alma Ata Health for All (HfA) by the Year 2000 Strategy. The strategy reflected an optimism that health could improve for poor and disadvantaged peoples around the world through the provision of comprehensive primary health care […]

Journal article

Using key informant monitoring in safe motherhood programming in Nepal

01/04/2005

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the methodology and application of the Key Informant Monitoring (KIM) tool as used by the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP). NSMP aims to achieve a sustained increase in the uptake of midwifery and essential obstetric care services by addressing, among other things, constraints on access to such services. Data collected by community-based […]

Journal article

Sexual-health communication across and within cultures: the Clown Project, Guatemala

01/06/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The synergies created through the careful application of both organic and symbolic communication demonstrably reach those most vulnerable to the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS. The Clown Project uses labour-intensive face-to-face street theatre and dialogue, participatory workshops, and symbolic communication such as print-based materials. Some lessons learned in selected communities in Guatemala and […]

Journal article

Is liberalisation damaging Albanian women’s health?

01/10/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Is liberalisation damaging Albanian women’s health?

Keywords

Overview

This article shows how Albanian women are taking active control of daily struggles brought about by an unstable political system and paramount shifts in social and economic structures. How do women take care of the material needs of their family when resources are scarce? How do they cope with no basic health care, lack of […]

Journal article

Safe motherhood’, family planning and maternal mortality: an Indonesian case study

01/06/1994

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Safe motherhood’, family planning and maternal mortality: an Indonesian case study

Keywords

Overview

Smyth uncovers the pros and cons of family planning as a way of reducing maternal mortality. She finds no evidence that such a link exists in Indonesia. The ‘Safe Motherhood’ programme in Indonesia focuses on family planning for women at high risk. But the programme excludes unmarried women, sex workers, and ill or infertile women, […]

Journal article

We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

01/03/2000

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

Keywords

Overview

A team of researchers talked to people living in poverty in Ethiopia to ascertain what stops them from gaining access to affordable, good quality basic health-care services, reproductive health-care services, and primary education. The research findings shed new light on the linkages between limited access to basic services and poverty, low incomes, insecure livelihoods, and […]

Journal article

Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali

01/07/2001

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali

Keywords

Overview

This article is based on a study conducted in Samé, a squatter settlement on the outskirts of Bamako, capital of Mali. The objective was to observe how individuals and their families ensure health and well-being through organising everyday life in their compounds (the basic housing unit in African cities). The compound is mainly a female […]

Journal article

Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

01/05/2003

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

Keywords

Overview

The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the latest international development strategy. At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the Millennium Declaration, signed by all UN member countries, set out a number of Millennium Development Goals. . The debates around the choice of MDGs, and the first steps of implementation, have threatened to push many […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Technical briefing

Practical Guide: Applying sustainable development to arms-transfer decisions

01/04/2009

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The devastating impact of conflict, armed crime, and all forms of armed violence around the world is apparent for all to see. Armed violence closes schools, paralyses communities, burdens health-care systems, discourages investment and economic activity, and makes lives and livelihoods less secure. Spending on arms or arms races can divert vital funds from public […]

Book

The Doctor Go Round

01/01/1977

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Health systems

Overview

What can be done to achieve adequate health care for the huge numbers of people in the world who now receive little or none? While a person in Britain receives more doctor-care in a year than the average Ethiopian can expect in a lifetime, what kind of health programmes are needed to bridge the gap? […]

Journal article

Viewpoint

01/11/2003

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Based on ‘Primary Health Care: can the dream be revived?’. 12 September 2003 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of WHOs Alma Ata Health for All (HfA) by the Year 2000 Strategy. The strategy reflected an optimism that health could improve for poor and disadvantaged peoples around the world through the provision of comprehensive primary health care […]

Journal article

Using key informant monitoring in safe motherhood programming in Nepal

01/04/2005

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article discusses the methodology and application of the Key Informant Monitoring (KIM) tool as used by the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP). NSMP aims to achieve a sustained increase in the uptake of midwifery and essential obstetric care services by addressing, among other things, constraints on access to such services. Data collected by community-based […]

Journal article

Sexual-health communication across and within cultures: the Clown Project, Guatemala

01/06/2009

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The synergies created through the careful application of both organic and symbolic communication demonstrably reach those most vulnerable to the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS. The Clown Project uses labour-intensive face-to-face street theatre and dialogue, participatory workshops, and symbolic communication such as print-based materials. Some lessons learned in selected communities in Guatemala and […]

Journal article

Is liberalisation damaging Albanian women’s health?

01/10/1993

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Is liberalisation damaging Albanian women’s health?

Keywords

Overview

This article shows how Albanian women are taking active control of daily struggles brought about by an unstable political system and paramount shifts in social and economic structures. How do women take care of the material needs of their family when resources are scarce? How do they cope with no basic health care, lack of […]

Journal article

Safe motherhood’, family planning and maternal mortality: an Indonesian case study

01/06/1994

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Safe motherhood’, family planning and maternal mortality: an Indonesian case study

Keywords

Overview

Smyth uncovers the pros and cons of family planning as a way of reducing maternal mortality. She finds no evidence that such a link exists in Indonesia. The ‘Safe Motherhood’ programme in Indonesia focuses on family planning for women at high risk. But the programme excludes unmarried women, sex workers, and ill or infertile women, […]

Journal article

We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

01/03/2000

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

We are Forgotten on Earth’: international development targets, poverty, and gender in Ethiopia

Keywords

Overview

A team of researchers talked to people living in poverty in Ethiopia to ascertain what stops them from gaining access to affordable, good quality basic health-care services, reproductive health-care services, and primary education. The research findings shed new light on the linkages between limited access to basic services and poverty, low incomes, insecure livelihoods, and […]

Journal article

Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali

01/07/2001

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali

Keywords

Overview

This article is based on a study conducted in Samé, a squatter settlement on the outskirts of Bamako, capital of Mali. The objective was to observe how individuals and their families ensure health and well-being through organising everyday life in their compounds (the basic housing unit in African cities). The compound is mainly a female […]

Journal article

Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

01/05/2003

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

Keywords

Overview

The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the latest international development strategy. At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the Millennium Declaration, signed by all UN member countries, set out a number of Millennium Development Goals. . The debates around the choice of MDGs, and the first steps of implementation, have threatened to push many […]