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21 April 2017
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This report focuses on the impact of school health programmes. School health programmes can cover both the prevention and treatment of disease and malnutrition in a school setting.
3 March 2017
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
There are many reasons why education is important and this report focuses on its contribution to economic growth and outcomes.
27 January 2017
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Access to infrastructure enables people to take advantage of economic opportunities and access markets, jobs, information and training. However, in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, many hundreds of millions of people still lack access to electricity, transport and water and sanitation and inadequate infrastructure is consistently identified as a major barrier to doing business.
14 December 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This report looks at the evidence available on effective behaviour change communication for increasing the uptake of family planning methods. It provides information on several different methods.
1 December 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This report focuses on the evidence on the health, economic and other benefits of investing in family planning. Family planning allows people to attain their desired number of children and determine the spacing of pregnancies. A large and growing body of literature explores the social and economic benefits of women’s ability to use reliable contraception to plan whether and when to have children.
18 November 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This report is not a systematic review, but aims to capture a substantial portion of the literature offering evidence on the topic, including the most important and useful papers to guide policy-making. It provides an annotated bibliography of the literature, followed by an evidence summary table assessing the literature according to DFID’s ‘strength of evidence’ guidelines.
21 October 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper discusses the important question of shifting policy on refugees from encampment to other models. It particularly focuses on what contexts, and in response to what drivers and arguments, have host countries shifted from an encampment to a more relaxed refugee policy regime.
25 February 2016
Published by: BioMed Central
This review outlines the benefits of using multiple approaches to improve model design and facilitate multidisciplinary research into infectious diseases, as well as showing and proposing practical examples of effective integration.
1 January 2016
Published by: Routledge
Zoonotic diseases – pathogens transmitted from animals to people – offer particularly challenging problems for global health institutions and actors, given the complex social-ecological dynamics at play.
11 December 2015
Published by: PLOS
This paper explores the framings of trypanosomiasis, a widespread and potentially fatal zoonotic disease transmitted by tsetse flies (Glossina species) affecting both humans and livestock.