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Best Practices for Environmental Cleaning in Healthcare Facilities: in Resource-Limited Settings

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2019) C_CDC

Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are a significant burden globally, with millions of patients affected each year. These infections affect both high- and limited-resource healthcare settings, but in limited-resource settings, rates are approximately twice as high as high-resource settings (15 o... more

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Health in the Americas: Potentially avoidable premature mortality

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2024) C_WHO

n recent decades, a significant improvement in people’s general health conditions has occurred, leading to an increase in life expectancy at birth in most countries in the Region of the Americas. This progress has been the result of both health technology advances – antibiotics, vaccines, and ot... more

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Psychological first aid for schools: Field operations guide, 2nd Edition

Brymer M., Taylor M., Escudero P., Jacobs A., Kronenberg M., Macy R., Mock L., Payne L., Pynoos R., & Vogel J. National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) & National Center for PTSD (2012) C2

National Child Traumatic Stress Network National Center for PTSD | The field of school safety and emergency management has evolved significantly over the past decade. Tragically, acts of violence, natural disasters, and terrorist attacks have taught us many lessons. We also know that other types of ... more

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Cardiovascular diseases in Tanzania: The burden of modifiable and intermediate risk factors

Roman, W.P.; Martin, H.D.; Sauli, E. et al. Journal of Xiangya Medicine (2019) CC

Tanzania, like other developing countries, is facing a higher burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). The country is experiencing rapid growth of modifiable and intermediate risk factors that accelerate CVD mortality and morbidity rates. In rural and urban settings, cardiovascular risk factors suc... more

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Cardiovascular diseases in Africa in the twenty-first century: Gaps and priorities going forward

Minja, N.W.; Nakagaayi, D.; Aliku, T. et al. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine (2022) CC

In 2015, the United Nations set important targets to reduce premature cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths by 33% by 2030. Africa disproportionately bears the brunt of CVD burden and has one of the highest risks of dying from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide. There is currently an epide...miological transition on the continent, where NCDs is projected to outpace communicable diseases within the current decade. Unchecked increases in CVD risk factors have contributed to the growing burden of three major CVDs—hypertension, cardiomyopathies, and atherosclerotic diseasesleading to devastating rates of stroke and heart failure. The highest age standardized disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to hypertensive heart disease (HHD) were recorded in Africa. The contributory causes of heart failure are changing—whilst HHD and cardiomyopathies still dominate, ischemic heart disease is rapidly becoming a significant contributor, whilst rheumatic heart disease (RHD) has shown a gradual decline. In a continent where health systems are traditionally geared toward addressing communicable diseases, several gaps exist to adequately meet the growing demand imposed by CVDs. Among these, high-quality research to inform interventions, underfunded health systems with high out-of-pocket costs, limited accessibility and affordability of essential medicines, CVD preventive services, and skill shortages. Overall, the African continent progress toward a third reduction in premature mortality come 2030 is lagging behind. More can be done in the arena of effective policy implementation for risk factor reduction and CVD prevention, increasing health financing and focusing on strengthening primary health care services for prevention and treatment of CVDs, whilst ensuring availability and affordability of quality medicines. Further, investing in systematic country data collection and research outputs will improve the accuracy of the burden of disease data and inform policy adoption on interventions. This review summarizes the current CVD burden, important gaps in cardiovascular medicine in Africa, and further highlights priority areas where efforts could be intensified in the next decade with potential to improve the current rate of progress toward achieving a 33% reduction in CVD mortality. more

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Essential Newborn Nursing for Small Hospitals. Facilitator's Guide

World Health Organization WHO; Dept. of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, India (2004) CC

In resource restriced countries

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Essential Competencies for Basic Midwifery Practice

International Confederation of Midwives (2010)

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Essential Newborn Nursing for Small Hospitals. Learner's Guide

World Health Organization WHO; Dept. of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, India (2004) C_WHO

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Continuing essential sexual, reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health services during the COVID-19 pandemic

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia; UNICEF; UNFPA (2020) CC

Practical considerations It provides more detailed and practical guidance for continuing services for each life stage across the life-course continuum. As such, both documents should be read and used together. The countries in South-East Asia and the Pacific regions would like to adapt the guidance... more

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The role of an essential health benefit in the delivery of integrated health services: Learning from practic e in East and Southern Africa

Regional Network for Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa (EQUINET) (2018) C1

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Essential Nutrition Actions: mainstreaming nutrition throughout the life course

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

This publication’s primary purpose is to provide a compilation of actions to address malnutrition in all its forms, in a concise and user-friendly format to help in decision-making processes for integration of nutrition interventions in national health policies, strategies, and plans based on coun... more

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Primary health care list

Directorate General of Drug Administration,, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, People's Republic of Bangladesh (1993) C1

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Essential List for screening, monitoring and treatment for diabetic retinopathy

International Agency for Prevention of Blindness IAPB (2018) C1

3rd edition April 2018 - draft version This Essential List for Diabetic Retinopathy contains recommendations for a range of essential itemsrequired at community / primary level (for screening); at secondary and tertiary levels (for treatment and follow up). It also contains recommendations for i... more

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Medicine Information for Primary Care in Zimbabwe

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Zimbabwe (2012) C1

The objective of this book is to provide health workers with easily accessible information on important aspects of the medicines commonly used at primary care level in Zimbabwe. Medicines are a crucial part of the management of most of our patients, yet many medicines are potentially dangerous if no... more

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Package of essential non communicable disease (‎‎‎‎PEN)‎‎‎‎ intervention at primary health service setting: PEN training trainee's manual

World Health Organization. Country Office for Nepal (2019) C_WHO

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Basic Package of Essential Health Services for Sierra Leone
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Ministry of Health and Sanitation Sierra Leone (2010) C1

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Diabetes – the Essential Facts

Albrechtsen N., Torekov S., Holst J. (2021) CC

Across the world more than 420 million people are living with diabetes. Two thirds of these have not yet been diagnosed. When discovered late or managed incorrectly, diabetes can damage your heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys, and nerves, leading to disability and premature death. In fact, more peo... more

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Transformer les systèmes de santé : Le rôle essentiel de l’eau, de l’assainissement et de l’hygiène

WaterAid (2018) C1

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The Essential Public Health Functions in the Americas: A Renewal for the 21st Century. Conceptual Framework and Description

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2021) C_WHO

The document is structured into five sections. The first presents the key experiences and challenges that justify a renewal of the EPHFs. The second section updates the groundwork for the exercise of public health and provides a framework to inform the exercise of the new essential functions. The th... more

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Essential Package of Health Services, Country Snapshot: Liberia

Wright, J.; Bethesda, MD: Health Finance & Governance Project, Abt Associates Inc. USAID (2015) C1

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Basic Package of Essential Health Services for Sierra Leone
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