his  manual  is  for  people  who  have  had  no  formal  training  in  counselling  but  wish  to  learn  the  necessary  components  to  establishing  an  effective  counselling  relationship.  It  will  be  useful  for  anyone who is involved in counselling people with a mental health problem.
h...is  manual  aims  at  providing  counsellors  with  information  about  the  basic  skills  required  in  counselling  in  a  practical  and  simple  to  understand  format.  It  is  meant  to  accompany  the  Healthy  Activity  Program  (HAP)  and  Counselling  for  Alcohol  Problems  (CAP)  manuals  for  counselling  patients with depression and harmful/dependent drinking in primary care settings.
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                                                                This  manual  is  a  resource  for  Health  Counselors  working  in Family  Physician Clinics  (FPC)  as  part  of  the  MANAS program.  This program  is  for  common mental disorders like depression and anxiety seen in primary health care facilitieslike  the  FPC;  since depression  is  the  common...est  disorder  within  this  group  of stress related mental health problems, in the manual we refer to these problems simply  as ‘Depression’.  The  aim  of  the  MANAS program  is  to  integrate  the recognition  and  treatment  of  Depression  into  routine  primary  health  care.In  the MANAS program,  a  range  of  effective  treatments  will  be  provided  for  patients with Depression. These treatments are matched to the individual requirements of patients  to  both  improve  the  effectiveness of  the  treatments  and  to  use  the limited resources efficiently.
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                                                                The  Healthy  Activity  Program  manual  aims  at  providing  counsellors  like  you  with  information  about  counselling  patients  with  moderate  to  severe  Depression  in  primary  care  settings.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Training Manual for Community Health Workers
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The course has been designed to train HCs who have little or no prior experience in mental health issues. It may also assist mental health administrators pr planners to develop a training component for mental health
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                PLoS Med. 2009 Oct;6(10):e1000159. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000159. Epub 2009 Oct 6.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The article "Under- and over-diagnosis of COPD: a global perspective" reviews the worldwide variation in the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and issues related to its misdiagnosis. It highlights that COPD is under-diagnosed due to factors such as limited access to spiromet...ry and variable diagnostic criteria, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Conversely, over-diagnosis often results from reliance on non-standard criteria or inadequate spirometry use. The article discusses key risk factors, including age, gender, exposure to pollutants, and comorbidities, and emphasizes the need for standardized diagnostic practices to better address and manage COPD globally.
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                                                                Glob Ment Health (Camb). 2015; 2: e12. Published online 2015 Jul 14. doi: 10.1017/gmh.2015.10
Low and middle income countries (LMICs) are facing an increase of the impact of mental health problems while confronted with limited resources and limited access to mental health care, known as the ‘me...ntal health gap’. One strategy to reduce the mental health gap would be to utilize the internet to provide more widely-distributed and low cost mental health care. We undertook this systematic review to investigate the effectiveness and efficacy of online interventions in LMICs. 
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                                                                EN ESTA EDICIÓN: Vacunación oral contra el cólera en la isla de La Española | Segunda reunión anual de la Comisión Regional de Monitoreo y Reverificación de la Eliminación del Sarampión y la Rubéola | Certificados digitales como ejemplo de transformación digital en la inmunización | La O...PS desarrolla un programa piloto de implantación de indicadores de monitoreo y evaluación con el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia mediante datos de su Registro Nominal de Vacunación Electrónico | Clasificación final de casos en la Región de las Américas, 2022.
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                                                                Demographic Health Survey Working Paper 2017 No. 130
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Geographical Paper No. 177
Accessed on: 18.06.2020
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The key tools and governance approaches for
international cooperation for sustainable development
(hereafter, international cooperation) were set up in a
markedly different time and age. International
cooperation – with official development assistance
(ODA) as the dominant means of implementa...tion –
remains key, despite being generally considered as no
longer adequate for addressing today’s common and
collective challenges.
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                                                                PLoS Med 15(7): e1002615. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pmed.1002615
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                mhGAP Intervention Guide Mental Health Gap Action Programme Version 2.0 for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings
The key updates include: content update in various sections based on new evidence; design changes for enhanced usability; a streamlined and... simplified clinical assessment that includes an algorithm for follow-up; inclusion of two new modules 
- Essential Care and Practice that includes general guidelines and Iminterventions and implementation module to support the proposed interventions by necessary infrastructure and resources; and, revised modules for Psychoses, Child and Adolescent Mental and Behavioural Disorders and Disorders due to Substance Use
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                                                                Hendra virus (HeV) continues to pose a serious public health concern as spillover events occur sporadically. Terminally ill horses can exhibit a range of clinical signs including frothy nasal discharge, ataxia or forebrain signs. Early signs, if detected, can include depression, inappetence, colic o...r mild respiratory signs. All unvaccinated ill horses in areas where flying foxes exist, may potentially be infected with HeV, posing a significant risk to the veterinary community. Equivac® HeV vaccine has been fully registered in Australia since 2015 (and under an Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority special permit since 2012) for immunization of horses against HeV and is the most effective and direct solution to prevent disease transmission to horses and protect humans. No HeV vaccinated horse has tested positive for HeV infection. There is no registered vaccine to prevent, or therapeutics to treat, HeV infection in humans. Previous equine HeV outbreaks tended to cluster in winter overlapping with the foaling season (August to December), when veterinarians and horse owners have frequent close contact with horses and their bodily fluids, increasing the chance of zoonotic disease transmission. The most southerly case was detected in 2019 in the Upper Hunter region in New South Wales, which is Australia's Thoroughbred horse breeding capital. Future spillover events are predicted to move further south and inland in Queensland and New South Wales, aligning with the moving distribution of the main reservoir hosts. Here we (1) review HeV epidemiology and climate change predicted infection dynamics, (2) present a biosecurity protocol for veterinary clinics and hospitals to adopt, and (3) describe diagnostic tests currently available and those under development. Major knowledge and research gaps have been identified, including evaluation of vaccine efficacy in foals to assess current vaccination protocol recommendations.
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                                                                J Nepal Health Res Counc 2013 May;11(24):198-204
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The key updates include: content update in various sections based on new evidence; design changes for enhanced usability; a streamlined and simplified clinical assessment that includes an algorithm for follow-up; inclusion of two new modules 
- Essential Care and Practice that includes general guid...elines and Iminterventions and implementation module to support the proposed interventions by necessary infrastructure and resources; and, revised modules for Psychoses, Child and Adolescent Mental and Behavioural Disorders and Disorders due to Substance Use
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                                                                Editorial Review 
AIDS 2019, 33:1411–1420