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Estimating the cost of achieving basic water, sanitation, hygiene, and waste management services in public health-care facilities in the 46 UN designated least-developed countries: a modelling study

Elsevier,

The Lancet Global Health, Volume 10, June 2022

Background: An alarming number of public health-care facilities in low-income and middle-income countries lack basic water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), and waste management services. This study estimates the costs of achieving full coverage of basic WASH and waste services in existing public health facilities in the 46 UN designated least-developed countries (LDCs). Methods: In this modelling study, in-need facilities were quantified by combining published counts of public facilities with estimated basic WASH and waste service coverage.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Tags:

Health and wellbeing; Water and sanitation; Capacity Building, Global

Implementation of hand hygiene in health-care facilities: results from the WHO Hand Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework global survey 2019

Elsevier,

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 22, June 2022

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 6 by assessing the level of hand hygiene implementation and its drivers in health-care facilities through a global WHO survey; 25% of health-care facilities in low-income and middle-income countries were found to lack basic hygiene services, including access to clean water.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and population; Water and sanitation; Menstrual Hygiene, Global

The seasonality of cholera in sub-Saharan Africa: a statistical modelling study

Elsevier,

The Lancet Global Health, Volume 10, June 2022

This Article supports SDGs 3, 6, and 13 by showing consistent and positive correlations between cholera seasonality and precipitation and, to a lesser extent, between cholera seasonality and temperature and flooding in sub-Saharan Africa.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and population; Water and sanitation, Africa

The first WHO global survey on infection prevention and control in health-care facilities

Elsevier,

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 22, June 2022,  P845-856

This study supports SDGs 3 and 6 by reporting findings from the first WHO global survey assessing infection prevention and control programme implementation at the facility level, and highlighting key gaps: for example, only 68% (302 of 446) of low-income countries had continuously available water services.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and population; Water and sanitation, Global

Severe mental illness in cancer is associated with disparities in psycho-oncological support

Elsevier,

Current Problems in Cancer, Volume 46, June 2022

Globally, about 18 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed each year1 and 450 million people (equally composed of both sexes) suffer from severe mental illnesses (SMI). A significant subgroup of patients with cancer and SMI are disadvantaged in terms of screening for distress and psycho-oncological care.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Diversity and inclusion; Health and wellbeing, Global

The future of food waste: Application of circular economy

Elsevier,

Energy Nexus,
Volume 7,
2022,
100098

Despite its significant adverse impacts on the environment, society, and economy, food waste is unavoidable around the world. The increase in population and income will worsen the situation and put more pressure on food security. 
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture, Global

Perceptions of indigenous people as service providers on payments for forest environmental services in the Central Highlands of Vietnam

Elsevier,

Trees, Forests and People, Volume 8, June 2022

The study assessed the perceptions of indigenous peoples on the Vietnam payments for forest environmental services (PFES) program. The majority of indigenous people were satisfied with PFES participation.
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SDG:

Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 15: Life on land

Tags:

Sustainable cities and human settlements; Water and sanitation, Asia

Sustainable development or developmental sustainability: Two cases of indigenous knowledge and practices for sustainable sourcing for wood-based design-solutions

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Trees, Forests and People, Volume 8, June 2022

Sustainable wood-based design solutions necessarily presuppose economically, socially, and environmentally reliable sources of wood use for any future designs. However, increasingly unsustainable effects from climate extremity are now prompting the search for alternative forms of use that avoid or forestall those effects.
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SDG:

Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 13: Climate action

Tags:

National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS); Sustainable tourism; Indigenous Knowledge, Africa

United States and United Nations pesticide policies: Environmental violence against the Yaqui indigenous nation

Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 10, June 2022

A Health Policy paper on the health impacts of banned pesticides in the Yaqui population in Mexico, in the context of SDGs 3, 10, and 12, highlighting recommendations for system-level solutions and policy change to current US, UN, and global laws.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

Tags:

Chemicals and waste; Diversity and inclusion; Health and wellbeing; Sustainable consumption and production, South America

A unified heuristic approach to simultaneously detect fusarium and ergot damage in wheat

Elsevier,

Measurement: Food,
Volume 7,
2022,
100043

Wheat is a major staple food in many diets worldwide. Authors identify a rapid and robust method for identifying fungi-infected damage to wheat crops, with the aim of reducing economic losses and hunger.
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Health and wellbeing, Global

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