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Food environment intervention improves food knowledge, wellbeing and dietary habits in primary school children: Project Daire, a randomised-controlled, factorial design cluster trial

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2021
Background Evidence suggests that dietary intake of UK children is suboptimal. As schools provide an ideal natural environment for public health interventions, effective and sustainable methods of improving food knowledge and dietary habits in this ...
Sarah F. Brennan, Fiona Lavelle, Sarah E. Moore, Moira Dean, Michelle C. McKinley, Patrick McCole, Ruth F. Hunter, Laura Dunne, Niamh E. O’Connell, Chris R. Cardwell, Chris T. Elliott, Danielle McCarthy, Jayne V. Woodside   +12 more
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Building operational public health capacity through collaborative networks of National Public Health Institutes

BMJ Global Health, 2019
The strengthening of public health systems internationally is integral to the improvement and protection of global population health. Essential public health functions and services are provided for by a range of organisations working together, often co ...
Osman Dar, Robert Verrecchia, Olaa Mohamed-Ahmed, Neil Squires   +3 more
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Analyzing self-evaluation capacity scores related to infectious disease control in International Health Regulations during the first year of COVID-19 pandemic

Scientific Reports, 2022
This study aimed to identify changes in the average score of countries' International Health Regulation (IHR) self-evaluation capacity (e-SPAR) in 2020 compared to 2019, and the factors associated with these changes.
Fauzi Budi Satria, Feng-Jen Tsai, Battsetseg Turbat   +2 more
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China Engages Global Health Governance: Processes and Dilemmas [PDF]

, 2009
Using HIV/AIDS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and avian influenza as case studies, this paper discusses the processes and dilemmas of China's participation in health governance, both at the domestic level and the global level.
Chan, Gerald, Chan, G, Chan, G., P. K. Lee, G. Chan, Lee, P., Lee, Pak K., Chan, Lai-Ha, Chan, LH, Lee, PK, L. H. Chan   +10 more
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Impact of Hajj on Global Health Security [PDF]

Journal of Religion and Health, 2018
With the human society transfers from scattered pieces to a society as a whole and the advent of the aviation era, the occurrence of infectious diseases and their diffusion have led to international health security issues. As the world's largest and irrevocable annual transnational religious movement, the Hajj and its connection with health security ...
Niu, Song, Xu, Mindan
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An early analysis of the World Bank’s Pandemic Fund: a new fund for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response

BMJ Global Health, 2023
In response to shortcomings in epidemic preparedness and response that were revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been numerous proposals for ways to improve preparedness and response financing.
Matthew R Boyce, Erin M Sorrell, Claire J Standley   +2 more
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Zika virus and global health security [PDF]

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2016
Americans are largely apathetic about the risks of Zika virus and Congress cannot agree on preparedness funding. Strategies to counter the spread of Zika by the World Health Organisation (WHO) grossly underestimate the disease’s impact. WHO and member countries lack sufficient resources to respond. Consequences of fiscal apathy can be measured in lives
Gostin, Lawrence O., Hodge, James G., Jr.   +1 more
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Global health security and the health-security nexus: principles, politics and praxis

BMJ Global Health, 2023
The past four decades have seen a steady rise of references to ‘security’ by health academics, policy-makers and practitioners, particularly in relation to threats posed by infectious disease pandemics. Yet, despite an increasingly dominant health security discourse, the many different ways in which health and security issues and actors intersect have ...
David McCoy, Stephen Roberts, Salma Daoudi, Jonathan Kennedy   +3 more
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Association of income inequality and aggregate health indicators in Japan: analyses of prefecture-level panel data

Scientific Reports
Evidence indicates that income inequality is associated with poor health outcomes. In Japan, while the relationship between income inequality and self-rated health has been explored, the association between income inequality and aggregate health ...
Hitoshi Murakam, Azusa Iwamoto, Ayako Masu, Miho Sodeno, Rei Haruyama, Sumiyo Okawa   +5 more
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Is the current surge in political and financial attention to One Health solidifying or splintering the movement?

BMJ Global Health, 2019
Introduction The global health field has witnessed the rise, short-term persistence and fall of several movements. One Health, which addresses links between human, animal and environmental health, is currently experiencing a surge in political and ...
Julia Spencer, Ellen McRobie, Osman Dar, Afifah Rahman-Shepherd, Nadeem Hasan, Johanna Hanefeld, Mishal Khan   +6 more
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