Briefing, Design Guide | 2021Action oriented
Frontline: Preparing Healthcare Systems for Shocks from Disasters to Pandemics
To strengthen the resilience of health care services to shocks and pressures, this report highlights lessons from the disaster risk and emergency management practice. It outlines five principles that are crucial to enable health systems to offer more reliable and shock-resistant services. The principles...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: World Bank
Briefing, Overview | 2018Descriptive resource
From Plan to Action: Assessing Integration and Evolution of Solid Waste Management Policies in Kenya
This briefing includes an overview of a study which examined current solid waste management policies in Kenya and the extent to they integrated health as well as how the policies were addressing health outcomes. Policies priorities and strategies on solid waste management since Kenya's indepence were...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: African Population and Health Research Center
Training | 2023Action oriented
Environment, climate change and health for practitioners and actors guiding policy change
Environmental risks to health are responsible for a large fraction of the overall disease burden. Decision makers need to be aware of the most important environmental exposures, exposure-disease links and available options and solutions for creating a healthier environment. This course provides an introduction...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: WHO
Evidence | 2021Descriptive resource
Connectivity for Human Capital: Realizing the Right to Education and Healthcare through Improved Public Transport in African Cities
The analytical outputs aim to ultimately inform the design of urban transport operations that are sufficiently tailored to realize the rights to education and healthcare by marginalized groups, with the intended long-term outcomes of improved development effectiveness and overall more streamlined reflection...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: World Bank
Initiative | 2018Descriptive resource
Compendium of Inspiring Practices: Health Edition
This paper brings together over 20 case studies that highlight practical information city planning and how to address issues that develop when prioritizing health as part of urban design. Although the primary goal of the paper is to present the key principles of the International Guidelines on Urban...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: UN-Habitat
