Public Health
Public health has been defined as "the science and art of preventing disease”, prolonging life and improving quality of life through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations (public and private), communities and individuals. Analyzing the determinants of health of a population and the threats it faces is the basis for public health. The public can be as small as a handful of people or as large as a village or an entire city; in the case of a pandemic it may encompass several continents. The concept of health takes into account physical, psychological, and social well-being. As such, …
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UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 8 December 2023 English
Air pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health globally. While progress has been made to tackle the air pollution crisis, it is uneven. Capacity and financing gaps hold countries back …
pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health globally. While progress has been made to tackle …
WRI: World Resources Institute · 6 December 2023 English
This report systematizes the implementation process, challenges, learnings, and results of complete street interventions in eight cities from different regions of Brazil.
elderly, improving accessibility, safety, and public health. These benefits can be demonstrated by measuring … opportunities Retail sales; visitor spending Public Health Minutes of physical activity per day Rates of … important municipal medical center of the SUS (Public Health System). Thus, it is common to find people …
HRW: Human Rights Watch · 4 December 2023 English
The UAE has dangerously high air pollution levels, creating major health risks for its citizens and residents. According to the latest World Bank data, the mean annual exposure to PM2.5 …
guidelines.3 Air pollution is a serious threat to public health in the UAE. Based on WHO estimates of the death … Countries: A Review,” International Journal of Public Health vol. 68, February 20, 2023, https://doi.org/10 … Health and Prevention at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University. Clive Baldwin, senior legal …
SSEE: Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment · 3 December 2023 English
These figures likely underestimate the cost difference between the two approaches because they suppose that the costs for all types of CCS facility are at the very lowest end of …
Capture and Storage. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public. Health 2011, 8 (5), 1460–1477. https://doi.org/10 …
COP28: COP28 UAE (Climate) · 2 December 2023 English
y the COP28 Presidency joined with the World Health Organization to announce a new ‘COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate and Health’ (the Declaration) to accelerate actions to protect people’s health …
with a view to minimizing adverse effects on public health, and mainstreaming climate considerations in …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 1 December 2023 English
This paper explores the impact of at-the-border and behind-the-border measures on intraregional trade in perishable goods within the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation region.It presents empirical evidence that behind-the-border measures …
role in ensuring food security and promoting public health in the CAREC region by mitigating potential … procedures and TBTs are intended to ensure public health and safety, as well as product quality. However … products and pharmaceuticals, directly affects public health and safety, they are subject to stringent regulation …
WHO: World Health Organization · 1 December 2023 English
regional and global levels. The relative lack of public health sup- port for sexual health has resulted in … contribu- tions from all stakeholders including public health decision-makers, research- ers, civil society …
ACAPS · 1 December 2023 English
• Out of the 23 decrees and directives, 6 directly affected the modalities of the humanitarian response in the education and health sectors. [...] • Fourteen of the decrees and …
for ordinary making it challenging to improve public health. citizens, particularly women, to participate …
WHO: World Health Organization · 1 December 2023 English
system: retrospective descriptive analysis. JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2021 May 19;7(5):e27638. doi: http:// … under one year of age: descriptive study. JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2019 Oct 23;5(4):e14461. doi: http:// …
WHO: World Health Organization · 1 December 2023 English
mental health programme at the Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon – a programme he founded in 2014 … mental health programme in the ministry of public health. The seeds of that programme were planted …
