Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-being for All: Experiences of…

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  • 2018•02•07

    Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana and Zinaida Fadeeva

    Authors:  Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana, Zinaida Fadeeva

    Title: Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-being for All: Experiences of community health, hygiene, sanitation and nutrition

    Series Title: Innovation in Local and Global Learning Systems for Sustainability: Learning Contributions of the Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development

    Publication Date: Monday 29 January 2018

    Place of Publication: Tokyo, Japan

    Publisher: United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)

    Pages: 149

    Language: English

    Abstract: Globally, the world faces many health-related challenges, from gaps in health literacy to inadequate health systems. Addressing these issues is complex but achievable, with health education and providing safe learning environments being some of the significant contributors to ensuring healthy lives for individuals and communities. The Education for Sustainable Development Programme at UNU-IAS has worked with Regional Centres of Expertise (RCEs) worldwide on a series of case studies to showcase their sustainability initiatives in the areas of health, including proximate determinants and drivers of health such as hygiene, sanitation and nutrition. These highlight how collective action at a local level is critical for addressing the health challenges the world faces today, through a participatory approach and multi-stakeholder networking.

    Copyright Holder: United Nations University

    Copyright Year: 2018

    Copyright type: All rights reserved

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