People’s Agenda for Pandemic Preparedness
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
In May 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Covid-19 is no longer a health emergency. Now that the world is in this...
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Published by: Institute of Development Studies
In May 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Covid-19 is no longer a health emergency. Now that the world is in this...
In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the addition of Disease X, a hypothetical infectious threat, to its blueprint...
Published by: Elsevier
Global debates about vaccines as a key element of pandemic response and future preparedness in the era of Covid-19 currently focus on...
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
This article shares findings on Covid-19 in Africa across 2020 to examine concepts and practices of epidemic preparedness and response....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.