Search Results - "UNICEF"
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Factors influencing student midwives' competence and confidence when incorporating UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) Education Standards in clinical practice
Published 2013“…To address this, the government has policies targeting maternity and public health services. Furthermore, UNICEF UK introduced Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) Hospital Standards in 1998 and Midwifery Education Standards in 2002. …”
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Sanitation sustainability, seasonality and stacking: improved facilities for how long, where and whom?
Published 2018“…Despite high-profile efforts to ‘reinvent the toilet’ (Gates Foundation, 2014) and ‘end open defecation’ (UNICEF, 2016a), WHO/UNICEF, (2017) estimated that in 2015, 2.3 billion lacked access to improved sanitation and 892 million practised open defecation (OD). …”
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A mixed methods evaluation of the breastfeeding memory aide CHINS
Published 2024“…Breastfeeding rates remain persistently low in the United Kingdom (UK) despite wide‐scale rollout of UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative training and accreditation. …”
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In an interconnected world: Joint research priorities for the environment, agriculture and infectious disease
Published 2014“…In 2008 the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) commissioned ten think-tanks to work on disease-specific and thematic reference groups to identify top research priorities that would advance the research agenda on infectious diseases of poverty, thus contributing to improvements in human health. …”
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The child labor situation in the commercial and construction sectors in Bangladesh
Published 2012“…In Turkey, a 1989 study indicated that 60 per cent of the workers involved in cotton cultivation were either 20 years old or younger in them (see Unicef 1997). The same study (see Unicef 1997) further reported that children are found to comprise one-fourth of all agricultural workers in Kenya. …”
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Dietary status of exclusively breastfeeding mothers: The Influence of traditional postpartum dietary practices
Published 2019“…The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) strongly advocate exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months after birth as the optimal way of feeding infants based on evidence which showed beneficial effects on child health, growth and development as well as positive implications on maternal wellbeing (WHO, 2009; UNICEF, 2016). …”
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Introduction to water quality modeling
Published 2012“…Access to safe water is a basic human right. According to UNICEF, water related diseases caused by insufficient safe water supplies coupled with poor sanitation and hygiene cause 3.4 million deaths a year, mostly among children [1]. …”
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The design and evaluation of the M-Kids mobile application to engage learning among Islamic pre-schoolers in Malaysia / Wan Irma Sabrina Idris
Published 2022“…This is before the available data from UNICEF where 1.57 billion students have been affected by school closures in more than 190 countries worldwide (Thompson, 2020). …”
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Reported Breastfeeding Rates in the Asia-Pacific Region
Published 2012“…For example, the WHO and UNICEF data from the Western Pacific Region which pools information mainly from national and regional survey that are cross-sectional in nature, reported the exclusive breastfeeding rate in infants less than six months of age to be 56% in China and 41% in Japan. …”
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The crime rate of five Latin American countries: does income inequality matter?
Published 2023“…Despite the Latin American region being the home to only 9 per cent of the global population, the region has the world's highest combined level of income inequality, with a measured net Gini coefficient of 48.3 (UNICEF, 2011) and has also registered approximately 40 per cent of the world's murders. …”
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Issues faced by adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in shelter homes in Malaysia
Published 2019“…UNICEF Malaysia has found that adolescents living with HIV/AIDS face several emotional, behavioural and social problems. …”
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Dietary guidelines for the Asia Pacific Region: Report of the Asia Pacific academic consortium for public health workshop 2016
Published 2017“…The workshop participants examined Dietary Guidelines and Food Guides tha t are in use in our region, together with additional materials from the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the World Cancer Research Foundation. The resulting set of guidelines is meant as a reminder of the main issues to be covered in a general public health education program. …”
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Working with industry for the promotion of fruit and vegetable consumption
Published 2010“…World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), etc.; and consultative and advocacy groups. …”
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Ultrafiltration of groundwater and rainwater as drinking water
Published 2012“…In the world, 4 person dies from water-related disease every minute (UNICEF 2005). Most of the water have untreated human sewage and agricultural activities have caused severe surface water contaminations. …”
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Issues faced by adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in shelter homes in Malaysia
Published 2018“…UNICEF Malaysia has found that adolescents living with HIV/AIDS face several emotional, behavioural and social problems. …”
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Revolusi pendidikan kanak-kanak melalui autobiografi Saya Malala
Published 2020“…Selaras dengan matlamat Pendidikan Untuk Semua (EFA), sewajarnya pendidikan adalah hak mutlak pada semua kanak-kanak di dunia. Demikan juga UNICEF merupakan badan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu yang memberi bantuan kemanusiaan dan perkembangan kepada kanak-kanak di seluruh dunia, termasuklah menggalakkan pendidikan untuk kanak-kanak perempuan dan memastikan mereka menghabiskan pendidikan peringkat sekolah rendah sekurang-kurangnya. …”
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Breastfeeding awareness
Published 2018“…WHO also actively promotes breastfeeding as the best source of nourishment for infants and young children. WHO and UNICEF recommend: early initiation of breastfeeding within 1 hour of birth; exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life; and introduction of nutritionally adequate and safe complementary (solid) foods at 6 months together with continued breastfeeding up to 2 years of age or beyond (WHO, 2017).The ‘Ten Steps for Successful Breastfeeding’ serves as the golden standard for achieving the BFHI status. …”
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Issues faced by adolescents living with HIV in shelter homes in Malaysia
Published 2018“…UNICEF Malaysia has found that adolescents with HIV face several emotional, behavioural and social problems. …”
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The cost of action: large-scale, longitudinal quantitative research with AIDS-affected children in South Africa
Published 2015“…The studies are explicitly aimed at helping to inform evidence-based policy-making, and are conducted in collaboration with the South African National Departments of Social Development, Health and Basic Education, with UNICEF, USAID, Save the Children and the National Action Committee for Children Affected by AIDS, and with the Universities of Oxford, KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Town and Witwatersrand. …”
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