scholarly journals A framework for scabies control

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. e0009661
Author(s):  
Daniel Engelman ◽  
Michael Marks ◽  
Andrew C. Steer ◽  
Abate Beshah ◽  
Gautam Biswas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategies ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
Health Burden ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Health Organization

Scabies is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that causes a significant health burden, particularly in disadvantaged communities and where there is overcrowding. There is emerging evidence that ivermectin-based mass drug administration (MDA) can reduce the prevalence of scabies in some settings, but evidence remains limited, and there are no formal guidelines to inform control efforts. An informal World Health Organization (WHO) consultation was organized to find agreement on strategies for global control. The consultation resulted in a framework for scabies control and recommendations for mapping of disease burden, delivery of interventions, and establishing monitoring and evaluation. Key operational research priorities were identified. This framework will allow countries to set control targets for scabies as part of national NTD strategic plans and develop control strategies using MDA for high-prevalence regions and outbreak situations. As further evidence and experience are collected and strategies are refined over time, formal guidelines can be developed. The control of scabies and the reduction of the health burden of scabies and associated conditions will be vital to achieving the targets set in WHO Roadmap for NTDs for 2021 to 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals.

scholarly journals Invest in physical activity to protect and promote health: the 2020 WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hidde P. van der Ploeg ◽  
Fiona C. Bull
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Sedentary Behaviour ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
World Health ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
Health Organization

AbstractIn this editorial we discuss the new 2020 World Health Organization guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour and a series of related papers that are published simultaneously in IJBNPA. The new guidelines reaffirm that physical activity is a ‘best buy’ for public health and should be used to support governments to increase investment in policy and research to promote and ensure physical activity opportunities are available for everyone. New recommendations on sedentary behaviour and inclusion of specific guidelines for people living with disability and/or chronic disease and pregnant and postpartum women are major developments since 2010. We discuss research priorities, as well as policy implementation and the contribution to the sustainable development agenda. The new guidelines can catalyse the paradigm shifts needed to enable equitable opportunities to be physically active for everyone, everywhere, every day.

scholarly journals Using sustainability as a collaboration magnet to encourage multi-sector collaborations for health

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akram Khayatzadeh-Mahani ◽  
Ronald Labonté ◽  
Arne Ruckert ◽  
Evelyne de Leeuw
Keyword(s):  
Health Equity ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
World Health ◽  
Policy Coherence ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health (SDH) places great emphasis on the role of multi-sector collaboration in addressing SDH. Despite this emphasis on this need, there is surprisingly little evidence for this to advance health equity goals. One way to encourage more successful multi-sector collaborations is anchoring SDH discourse around ‘sustainability’, subordinating within it the ethical and empirical importance of ‘levelling up’. Sustainability, in contrast to health equity, has recently proved to be an effective collaboration magnet. The recent adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides an opportunity for novel ways of ideationally re-framing SDH discussions through the notion of sustainability. The 2030 Agenda for the SDGs calls for greater policy coherence across sectors to advance on the goals and targets. The expectation is that diverse sectors are more likely and willing to collaborate with each other around the SDGs, the core idea of which is ‘sustainability’.

scholarly journals Together the voice of nurses worldwide

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Annette Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources For Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Effective Care ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Voice ◽  
System Effectiveness ◽  
Significant Shortage

The world is in a critical period of time in relation to human resources for health. One of the most significant obstacles for achieving health system effectiveness is the availability of a skilled health workforce, particularly nurses. The World Health Organization estimates that there is a significant shortage of nurses all over the world. Nurses are the main professional component of the ‘front line’ staff in the majority of health systems and their contribution is recognised as essential to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and delivering safe, accessible and effective care. A shortage in the nursing workforce will lead to a failure to maintain or improve health care (Buchan & Aiken, 2008).

scholarly journals Monitoring Frameworks for Universal Health Coverage: What About High-Income Countries?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 387-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Bergen ◽  
Arne Ruckert ◽  
Ronald Labonté
Keyword(s):  
Universal Health Coverage ◽  
High Income ◽  
World Health ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Universal Health

Implementing universal health coverage (UHC) is widely perceived to be central to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and is a work program priority of the World Health Organization (WHO). Much has already been written about how low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can monitor progress towards UHC, with various UHC monitoring frameworks available in the literature. However, we suggest that these frameworks are largely irrelevant in high-income contexts and that the international community still needs to develop UHC monitoring framework meaningful for high-income countries (HICs). As a first step, this short communication presents preliminary findings from a literature review and document analysis on how various countries monitor their own progress towards achieving UHC. It furthermore offers considerations to guide meaningful UHC monitoring and reflects on pertinent challenges and tensions to inform future research on UHC implementation in HIC settings.

scholarly journals Considerations for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals for dengue

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Case Fatality ◽  
World Health ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Mortality And Morbidity ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Dengue Outbreaks ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Health Organization

Dengue circulates endemically in many tropical and subtropical regions. In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) set out goals to reduce dengue mortality and morbidity by 50% and 25%, respectively, between 2010 and 2020. These goals will not be met. This is, in part, due to existing interventions being insufficiently effective to prevent spread. Further, complex and variable patterns of disease presentation coupled with imperfect surveillance systems mean that even tracking changes in burden is rarely possible. As part of the Sustainable Development Goals, WHO will propose new dengue-specific goals for 2030. The 2030 goals provide an opportunity for focused action on tackling dengue burden but should be carefully developed to be ambitious but also technically feasible. Here we discuss the potential for clearly defined case fatality rates and the rollout of new and effective intervention technologies to form the foundation of these future goals. Further, we highlight how the complexity of dengue epidemiology limits the feasibility of goals that instead target dengue outbreaks.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Pemberian Jus Jambu Biji Merah dan Kurma Terhadap Peningkatan Kadar HB pada Ibu Post Partum

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Rini Anggeriani ◽  
Mona Yatiliu
Keyword(s):  
Post Partum ◽  
The Body ◽  
World Health ◽  
Bivariate Analysis ◽  
P Value ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Pregnancy And Childbirth ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Health Organization

The Data in 2017 from World Health Organization (WHO) on national health status at the target of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) stated globally around 830 women die every day due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth, with an MMR rate of 216 per 100,000 live births. As much as 99 percent of maternal deaths due to problems of pregnancy, and childbirth or childbirth happened in developing countries. Anemia was a condition in which red blood cells (erythrocytes) decrease in the blood circulation or the mass of hemoglobin so that it was unable to fulfill its function as a carrier of oxygen throughout the tissue. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the administration of red guava juice and dates palm to increase Hb levels in post partum mothers. This study used a pre-experimental research design with a one group pre-test post-test approach. With sampling was taken by purposive sampling. The Data analysis using univariate, bivariate analysis using paired t-test. The results showed that 15 postpartum mothers who experienced anemia had a p value of 0,000 ≤ 0.05 so it can be concluded that there was an effect of giving red guava juice and dates to post partum mothers who had anemia. It is expected for post partum mothers who are anemic to consume red guava juice and dates routinely in order to increase Hb levels in the body.

scholarly journals Reaching the zero by 30 dog-mediated human rabies goal

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Andrea Britton
Keyword(s):  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Short Communication ◽  
World Health ◽  
Human Rabies ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Reservoir Hosts

It is unacceptable that as we advance into the 21st century rabies is still a threat to humans and animals alike. Given public health interventions that focus solely on disease prevention in humans have no effect on the reduction of infection in the reservoir hosts, the most effective way to combat human rabies infection is to control the disease transmission by mass vaccination of the animal source, e.g. dogs and wildlife1. This short communication focuses on the global strategic target to end human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 20302 in line with the Sustainable Development Goals by providing recent updates on World Health Organization (WHO) and OIE guidelines3–5 and recommendations as well as highlighting Australian rabies research activities to prevent an incursion of rabies into the country.

scholarly journals Globalization’s Implications for G20 Governance

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-54
Author(s):  
John Kirton ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

The rapid globalization of money, goods, services, taxation, knowledge, people, political ideas, digitalization, and especially pathogens and ecological pollutants has intensified, along with rising inequality, multipolarity, protectionism, isolationism and geopolitical tensions. Together these factors present new challenges to 21st century global governance led by the systemically significant states which make up the Group of Twenty (G20). G20 governance has expanded in response, but with more success on its old, incompletely globalized economic agenda than on its newer, more globalized digitalization, health pandemics and climate change agendas. The most recent G20 summit in Osaka, Japan on 28–29 June 2019 did make advances on tax and digitalization but not on the looming health risks and the existential threat of climate change. Preparations for the Saudi Arabian-hosted Riyadh summit, to be held on 21–22 November 2020, have made some progress on the latter amidst the unprecedented crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis shows that the G20’s architecture needs to be further strengthened by institutionalizing G20 environment and health ministers’ meetings; inviting the executive heads of the United Nations (UN) bodies for climate change, biodiversity, the environment and health, as well as the leaders of key outside countries, to the summits; giving the UN and World Health Organization the same G20 status as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank; and holding a second annual summit at the UN each September focused on the sustainable development goals.

scholarly journals Reflections on the decade of the neglected tropical diseases

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 338-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mwelecele Ntuli Malecela
Keyword(s):  
Neglected Tropical Diseases ◽  
World Health ◽  
Tropical Diseases ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Health Organization

Abstract Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of diseases that disproportionately affect the poorest of the poor. While for years attention has focused on single diseases within this group, efforts during the past decade have resulted in their being grouped together to highlight that they are fundamentally diseases of neglected populations. The formation of a World Health Organization department to address these diseases consolidated the efforts of the many stakeholders involved. In the past decade, focus has shifted from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), where NTDs are not mentioned, to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), where NTDs are not only mentioned, but clear indicators are provided to measure progress. It has also been a decade where many NTD programmes have scaled up rapidly thanks to work by affected countries through their master plans, the commitment of partners and the unprecedented donations of pharmaceutical manufacturers. This decade has also seen the scaling down of programmes and acknowledgement of the elimination of some diseases in several countries. Given the successes to date, the challenges identified over the past decade and the opportunities of the coming decade, the NTD Programme at the WHO is working with partners and stakeholders to prepare the new NTD roadmap for 2021 to 2030. The focus is on three major paradigm shifts: a change of orientation from process to impact, a change in technical focus from diseases to delivery platforms and a change from an external-based agenda and funding to a more country-led and funded implementation within health systems. This article reviews the past decade and offers a glimpse of what the future might hold for NTDs as a litmus test of SDG achievements.

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