child health
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Priorizando a los Niños en la Política Pública en Desastres
Dos sesiones recientes del programa Sustain What destacaron la necesidad de proveer continuidad a servicios de cuidado infantil y apoyar la salud mental de los niños durante tiempos de crisis.
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Putting Children at the Forefront of Disaster Policy
Two recent Sustain What webcasts emphasized the need to sustain child care and support children’s mental health during times of crisis.
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Empowering the Communities Most Vulnerable to Disaster
Jaishree Beedasy delves into how disasters disproportionately affect the most vulnerable groups in society, particularly children, and how to help them recover.
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Children Highly Vulnerable to Health Risks from Climate Change
Madeleine Thomson, a senior research scientist at IRI and a senior research scholar at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, is a co-editor of PLOS Medicine‘s special issue on Climate Change and Health. Articles in the issue cover climate-related impacts, adaptation and mitigation.
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Indicators Support MCC Goals for Low-Income Country Development
One of the benefits of tying funding to achievement on a majority of indicators has been to increase the incentives for countries to perform well across a wide range of indicators.
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Earth Institute and Merck Foundation Expand Health Program in Africa’s Millennium Villages
With $1 million in renewed support from The Merck Company Foundation, the Millennium Villages project will continue to strengthen its Community Health Worker (CHW) program to address gaps in primary health care availability in sub-Saharan Africa. Initial funding of $869,000 from The Merck Company Foundation launched the first phase of the project in 2009 by…
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