Guidance for monitoring healthy diets globally

by World Health Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, United Nations Children's Fund

2024 · Food & Agriculture Org. [Author] [Author]

It is vital for countries to monitor their population’s diets to inform actions toward improving the health of people and the planet. The healthiness of diets must be tracked in global frameworks, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to help monitor how the world’s population is faring. Currently, few countries regularly assess diets and there are no dietary indicators in global monitoring frameworks. Recognizing the importance of diets for health and the lack of consensus on how to measure and monitor healthy diets at scale, FAO, UNICEF and WHO joined forces to chart a way forward via the Healthy Diets Monitoring Initiative (HDMI). The joint mission of the HDMI is to enable national and global decision-makers and stakeholders to monitor and achieve healthy diets for people and the planet. The current guidance document is focused on healthy diets for healthy people. This version of the document provides an overview of the range of purposes for measuring the healthiness of diets and offers examples of the dietary assessment methods and types of dietary intake data, surveys and metrics that are currently available to monitor healthy diets.

The State of the Global Education Crisis

by UNESCO, United Nations Children's Fund, World Bank (the)

2021 · UNESCO Publishing

"The global disruption to education caused by the COVD-19 pandemic is without parallel and the effects on learning are severe. The crisis brought education systems across the world to a halt, with school closures affecting more than 1.6 billion learners. While nearly every country in the world offered remote learning opportunities for students, the quality and reach of such initiatives varied greatly and were at best partial substitutes for in-person learning. Now, 21 months later, schools remain closed for millions of children and youth, and millions more are at risk of never returning to education. Evidence of the detrimental impacts of school closures on children's learning offer a harrowing reality: learning losses are substantial, with the most marginalized children and youth often disproportionately affected. Countries have an opportunity to accelerate learning recovery and make schools more efficient, equitable, and resilient by building on investments made and lessons learned during the crisis. Now is the time to shift from crisis to recovery - and beyond recovery, to resilient and transformative education systems that truly deliver learning and well-being for all children and youth."--The World Bank website.

Integrating Poverty and Gender Into Health Programmes

by WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific

2006 · World Health Organization

Although poverty and gender significantly influence health and socio-economic development, health professionals are not always adequately prepared to address such issues in their work. This publication, one of a set of modules intended for use in pre-service and in-service training of health professionals in the Western Pacific Region, focuses on the inter-relationship between poverty and health, including definitions of poverty and its multiple dimensions; indicators of poverty including methods of determining the prevalence of poverty and inequality within a community; how the health care system can address issues of poverty, with a special focus on low-income women and those from other marginalised or vulnerable groups.

State of the world’s drinking water

by World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, The World Bank

2022 · World Health Organization

This report by the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the World Bank addresses the urgent need to ensure safe drinking water for all. It underscores the health, economic, and societal benefits of safely managed drinking water and highlights the current status and challenges in achieving universal access. The publication provides an in-depth analysis of drinking water services in households, schools, and healthcare facilities, and examines the impact of climate change. It also discusses national policies, regulatory frameworks, and financing strategies necessary to accelerate progress. The intended audience includes policymakers, public health professionals, and stakeholders in water management.