International Standards & Practice Guidelines (IS&Gs)

1. Health and sustainable development programs
2. Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDGs)
   —World Summit on Sustainable Development
   —Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
        —Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health
3. Health in the Sustainable Development Goals
   —Health and sustainable development
   —Health indicators for sustainable development goals
   —Progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
4. Health policy topics
5. Health services topics
6. Health and development programs
   —Effective aid, better health
   —Aid effectiveness and health
7. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) topics
   —Health Impact Assessment (HIA) programs
8.  Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases
   —Noncommunicable diseases damage health, including economic health
   —Key documents
9. WHO-Civil Society Initiative
10. WHO collaborating centres
11. WHO Twinning Partnership for Improvement (TPI)
    —Partnership preparation package: a practical document to implement twinning partnerships for improvement 2018
    —Taking Action: Steps 4 & 5 in Twinning Partnerships for Improvement 2018
12. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
    —Better Life Index
    —Official Development Assistance 2015
13. The World Bank Group
    —Religion & Sustainable Development Online Information Platform

Missions Specific Best Practices Documents

(Demonstrate Compliance with International Standards & Guidelines)

I. FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION (FBO) OPEN-ACCESS DOCUMENTS:
A. Best Practices in Global Health Missions (BPGHM)
—Partnerships–No references to IS&Gs but appears to demonstrate compliance.

B. Christian Journal for Global Health (CJGH)
—Health paradigms shifts in the 20th Century
—Developing and measuring healthcare capacity and quality in Burundi: LifeNet International’s horizontal conversion franchise model
—Theological foundations for an effective Christian response to the global disease burden in resource-constrained regions–No references to IS&Gs but appears to demonstrate compliance.
—What works? Evidence on the role of faith in poverty reduction
—Forging Relationships Between Faith-based and Secular Organizations to Address the Global Water Crisis: A Case Study from Liberia
—The Changing Landscape of Mission Hospitals: Relevance, Quality and Sustainability
—Mission Hospitals as Vital Capacity Builders in the Majority World
—Sustainability and Inclusiveness in a Competitive Market: A Study of Faith-Based Hospitals in India
—Mission Hospital Responses to Challenges and Implications for their Future Role in India’s Health System
—The Makunda Model: An Observational Study of High Quality, Accessible Healthcare in Low-Resource Settings
—Does Universal Health Insurance Act as a Driver of Increased Life Expectancy? Evidence from Selected Emerging Economies
—A Review of Faith-Based Holistic Health Models: Mapping Similarities and Differences
—The Role of a Mission Organization in Building a Sustainable Government Hospital in Southern Ethiopia

C. Contact Publication of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and former Christian Medical Commission (CMC). Includes numerous articles demonstrating FBO work in the establishment as well as promotion of IS&Gs.
—Reforming health in China: Strengthening the weak?
—Sustainability: Models in church-related health care

D. Journal of Christian Nursing (JCN)
—Challenges and Trends in Global Healthcare

E. William Carey International Development Journal (Click full screen icon & scroll down to page number)
—The Church, Shalom, and the “Slow Motion Disaster” See page 29

 II. SECULAR OPEN-ACCESS DOCUMENTS:
A. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
—Global Health NOW–Essential News and Views in Global Health

B. The Lancet Global Health Series See especially:
—Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015—
—World Health 2014
—Chronic diseases and development 2010
Global Health Commissions:
—Women and Health: the key for sustainable development 2015
—Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation 2013

C. BioMed Central Globalization and Health
—Reverse innovation in global health systems: towards global innovation flow 2013
—Globalization & Health on Reverse innovation in global health systems: learning from low-income countries 2018

D. Devex–Development Funding