Publications by authors named "R B Guinto"
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- The COP26 Health Programme, launched at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, aims to create low-carbon and resilient health systems, with 83 countries committed to the initiative as of May 2024.
- The analysis highlights significant issues in current monitoring practices, showing that many countries focus on process indicators that don't truly measure progress towards sustainable health-care systems.
- There is a critical need for better, adaptable indicators that can effectively track health-care outcomes and contribute to climate strategies, ensuring that the COP26 Health Programme achieves its goals without misleading claims.
In 2020, Covid-19 led to global policy statements promoting bans and reforms to wet markets in Asia and Africa to prevent future pandemics. We conducted a comparative, exploratory qualitative study in 2021 in three countries (Kenya, Vietnam and the Philippines) to understand the social and political dimensions to biosecurity reform at wet markets. This included 60 key informant interviews and rapid ethnographic research in 15 markets, as well as a review of policy documents and online media articles.
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