These guidelines are designed for settings with limited resources to provide inexpensive and effective control strategies for prevention of TB transmission in health care workers (HCW).
This guide is intended for mid-level rehabilitation workers on work with people who have suffered a stroke and their families. The guide contains advice on how to plan and conduct rehabilitation activities for those who have had a stroke to promote their independence in all aspects of daily life
WHO practical guidelines. 2nd edition
This manual is intended for mid-level rehabilitation workers on work with children with communication difficulties and their families. The manual contains information on general aspects of communication, causes of communication impairment, sample assessments, and advice for parents and those involve...d in the training of health and education workers. You can download section by section from the website
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This guide is designed to support mid-level rehabilitation workers on work with infants, children and young adults with spina bifida and hydrocephalus and their families. The manual includes information on the types, signs and causes of spina bifida and hydrocephalus, assessment of the level of deve...lopment of those affected, and suggestions to promote normal development, mobility and self-care
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This American Thoracic Society Statement was prepared by a Committee of the Scientific Assembly on Environmental and Occupational Health at the request of the American Lung Association Occupational Health Expert Advisory Group to emphasize the continuing importance of silicosis as a major lung disea...se worldwide and the need for increasing efforts in prevention. Emphasis is placed on public health issues of silicosis rather than on important current research in pathologic mechanisms.
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A guide for strengthening the basic nursing curriculum
A Manual for mid-level rehabilitation workers.
This manual is to support the work of mid-level rehabilitation workers on their work with children or adults with spinal cord injury and their families. It refers to the physical effects of this type of injury, the different levels of injury and the ba...sic care of a person following a spinal cord injury. Available in Chinese and Mongolian, too
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A guide for district health and rehabilitation managers.
This guide contains recommendations for strengthening disability prevention and rehabilitation within primary health care services. It is addressed to rehabilitation and general health care personnel within district health services, in partic...ular to the managers of those services
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This guide is designed to support mid-level rehabilitation workers on work with children with cerebral palsy and their families. The manual includes information on early detection and assessment of the level of development of the child, equipment to support their needs and suggestions to promote mob...ility and improved communication. You can download this guide in Arabic and Italian, too
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Techniques for the district Hospital
Guide pour les agents de réadaption de niveau intermédiare
These recommendations for the education of mid-level rehabilitation workers are based on experiences in planning and implementing training programmes in nine countries. This information is useful in designing and developing training programmes specific to community-based rehabilitation
These recommendations for the education of mid-level rehabilitation workers are based on experiences in planning and implementing training programmes in nine countries. This information is useful in designing and developing training programmes specific to community-based rehabilitation
A guide to management in Primary Health Care. A practical, instructive training guide that has proven its capacity to improve the managerial skills of middle-level health workers responsible for the management or supervision of health services. Presented as an activity-centered working guide, the bo...ok uses numerous questionnaires, exercises, practical examples, illustrations, charts, and sample forms to help readers relate advice and suggestions to their own daily problems. Emphasis is placed on ways to improve the management of health services provided by full-time, qualified staff. The guide features 18 chapters presented in four main parts, any one of which can be studied separately or as part of the whole, according to individual learning needs.
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A guide to management in Primary Health Care. A practical, instructive training guide that has proven its capacity to improve the managerial skills of middle-level health workers responsible for the management or supervision of health services. Presented as an activity-centered working guide, the bo...ok uses numerous questionnaires, exercises, practical examples, illustrations, charts, and sample forms to help readers relate advice and suggestions to their own daily problems. Emphasis is placed on ways to improve the management of health services provided by full-time, qualified staff. The guide features 18 chapters presented in four main parts, any one of which can be studied separately or as part of the whole, according to individual learning needs.
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