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ReportPublication 2017DCP3: Improving Health and Reducing Poverty
This report from the World Bank is the ninth and final volume of the Disease …
This report from the World Bank is the ninth and final volume of the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) series. It provides an overview of the findings and methods explored in the first eight volumes, placing them within a framework that identifies an efficient pathway toward essential universal health coverage through the implementation of 21 essential packages that include health interventions and fiscal and intersectoral policies. The Disease Control Priorities Network (DCP) promotes and…
Health Outcomes | Chronic Disease/Risk | Child/Nutrition | Costing Methods | Evidence Synthesis | Benefit-Cost Analysis | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Infectious Diseases | Maternal/Reproductive Health | Mental Health | Injuries/Accidents | Social Determinants | Health Systems | Policy/Regulation | Global Governance | Economics/Finance | Government/Law | Health/Medicine | Science/Technology | Global -
ArticlePublication 2017Simulation of Growth Trajectories of Childhood Obesity into Adulthood
The authors developed a simulation model to estimate the risk of adult obesity at the age …
The authors developed a simulation model to estimate the risk of adult obesity at the age of 35 years for the current population of children in the United States. They used pooled height and weight data from five nationally representative longitudinal studies totaling 176,720 observations from 41,567 children and adults to simulate growth trajectories across the life course adjusted for secular trends. Using 1,000 virtual populations of 1 million children through the age of 19 years, representative of the…
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DataWeb Portal 2024OECD Health Statistics
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Health Database offers a comprehensive source of …
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Health Database offers a comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries. These data serve to facilitate and support comparative analyses, and can be useful for researchers, educators and policy makers looking to draw lessons from international comparisons of diverse health systems. General categories of data include population demographics, health status and determinants of health, as well as data on the societal responses to health…
Health Outcomes | Chronic Disease/Risk | Child/Nutrition | Maternal/Reproductive Health | Mental Health | Social Determinants | Health Systems | Policy/Regulation | Economics/Finance | Education/Labor | Health/Medicine | Science/Technology | North America | Latin America & Caribbean | Europe | Oceania -
Resource PortalWeb Portal, Teaching Resource 2024Health Systems Evidence
Health Systems Evidence is a continuously updated repository of syntheses of research evidence about governance, …
Health Systems Evidence is a continuously updated repository of syntheses of research evidence about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems. In addition to systematic reviews, the portal also includes economic evaluations in these same domains, descriptions of health system reforms (with links to syntheses and economic evaluations when possible), and descriptions of health systems (to assist with assessments of the local applicability of research evidence and of how reforms are embedded within health…
Technology Assessment | Chronic Disease/Risk | Child/Nutrition | Costing Methods | Evidence Synthesis | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Infectious Diseases | Maternal/Reproductive Health | Mental Health | Injuries/Accidents | Health Systems | Policy/Regulation | Health/Medicine | Global | College | Graduate | Doctoral | Professional | Critical Thinking/Analysis | Policy Translation | Quantitative Literacy -
DataInteractive 2017Child Malnutrition Estimates 2017: Data Interactive
This 2017 interactive data dashboard, using information collected by UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and …
This 2017 interactive data dashboard, using information collected by UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank, displays the latest data for child malnutrition around the world. Updated regularly, the dashboard can display a global overview, regional trends, and prevalence for malnutrition stunting, overweight, and wasting, all sortable by organization-specific classifications, regions, and income groups. The interactive is accompanied by an informational brochure filled with infographics and a quick tutorial on how to use the…
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DataInteractive 2017Monitoring Health for the SDGs: Data Visualization Dashboard
This web portal from the World Health Organization (WHO) accompanies the 2017 report, World Health …
This web portal from the World Health Organization (WHO) accompanies the 2017 report, World Health Statistics: Monitoring Health for the SDGs. Powered by data in the WHO’s Global Health Observatory (GHO), the portal presents visualizations on 22 health and health-related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals from all member countries, covering a number of topics including poverty, health and well-being, malnutrition, sanitation, clean energy, sustainable urban development, and more.Published every year since 2005, World Health…
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OrganizationWeb Portal 2024PATH
PATH is an international nonprofit organization that has been translating ideas into health solutions for …
PATH is an international nonprofit organization that has been translating ideas into health solutions for 40 years, with a focus on child survival, maternal and reproductive health, and infectious diseases. PATH mobilizes partners around the world in order to take innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. PATH takes a multidimensional approach to solving health challenges, with work spanning five platforms: Vaccines to give children a…
Technology Assessment | Health Outcomes | Child/Nutrition | Costing Methods | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Infectious Diseases | Maternal/Reproductive Health | Social Determinants | Health Systems | Health/Medicine | Global | Sub-Saharan Africa | Asia & Pacific -
OrganizationWeb Portal 2024One Health Trust
One Health Trust, formally the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP), was founded …
One Health Trust, formally the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP), was founded with the objective of using research to support better decision-making in health policy. One Health Trust researchers employ a range of expertise—including economics, epidemiology, disease modeling, risk analysis, and statistics—to conduct actionable, policy-oriented research on malaria, antibiotic resistance, disease control priorities, environmental health, alcohol and tobacco, and other global health priorities. One Health Trust projects are global in scope, spanning…
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Lesson/ModuleWeb Portal, Teaching Resource 2016Educational Module: Drug-Induced Birth Defects
Using the currently topical issue of whether SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) anti-depressants cause birth …
Using the currently topical issue of whether SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) anti-depressants cause birth defects, the module aims to provide students with a general understanding of the following: (1) human risk factor causation as determined by epidemiologic methods; (2) the limits of non-human toxicological evidence to the assessment of causality in humans; (3) the importance of pharmacovigilance for all medications; (4) special difficulties in identifying causes of human birth defects; (5) the importance of…
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