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Global Health Promotion current issue
- Predisposing, facilitating and reinforcing factors of healthy and unhealthy food consumption in schoolchildren: a study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  Objective: African schoolchildren’s dietary habits are likely changing in the realm of the nutrition transition, particularly in urban areas, but data on their diet and on determinants are scanty. In order to design relevant interventions for this priority target group, the study aimed to assess food habits and their determinants in schoolchildren of Ouagado […]
- Dimensions of lay health worker programmes: results of a scoping study and production of a descriptive framework
  Background: Approaches that engage and support lay health workers in the delivery of health improvement activities have been widely applied across different health issues and populations. The lack of a common terminology, inconsistency in the use of role descriptors and poor indexing of lay health worker roles are all barriers to the development of a shared […]
- "Solos vamos mas deprisa, juntos vamos mas lejos": las comunidades de practicas al servicio de la atencion sanitaria a los mas pobres
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- The applicability and transferability of public health research from one setting to another: a survey of maternal health researchers
  Background: Little is known about the process of assessing whether research conducted in one setting is applicable (i.e. implementable) and transferable (i.e. as effective) to another, despite its importance for health policy and practice. Applicability/transferability differs from external validity; the former focuses on potential utility in another specifi […]
- > : les communautes de pratiques au service de l'acces aux soins des plus pauvres ?
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WHO news
- Yellow fever vaccination booster not needed
  17 May 2013 -- The yellow fever ‘booster’ vaccination given ten years after the initial vaccination is not necessary, according to WHO. […]
- WHO statistics show narrowing health gap between countries with best and worst health status
  15 May 2013 -- The world has made dramatic progress in improving health in the poorest countries and narrowing the gaps between countries with the best and worst health status in the past two decades, according to the World Health Statistics 2013. […]
- 2.4 billion people will lack improved sanitation in 2015
  13 May 2013 – Some 2.4 billion people – one-third of the world’s population – will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, according to a joint WHO/UNICEF report issued today. […]