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Information Note: Disability and Inclusion in MHPSS - IASC Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (January 2024)

Inter-Agency Standing Committee (2024) C1

This document contains guidance for strengthening the disability inclusiveness of MHPSS responses and programmes in emergency settings. It is intended to supplement the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (2007). Overall Objective To consider and add... more

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Data availability for assessing disruption of essential services for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health during COVID-19: lessons learned from Tajikistan

World Health Organization WHO (2022) CC

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Technical Guidelines For the Construction and Management of Rural Health Institution Latrines

MIWR - GONU, MWRI - GOSS; UNICEF (2009) CC

A Manual for Field Staff and Practitioners

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Review of Child and Adolescent Refugee Mental Health

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network NCTSN (2003) C1

White Paper from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Refugee Trauma Task Force

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Climate Change & Heat and Impact on Health
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Liebau, L.; and S. Mauder (2022) CC

MEDBOX Issue Brief no.23. The intent of this Issue Brief is to raise awareness about heat waves as a result of climate change and its impact on health. More information on the topic of climate change and planetary health you can find in our PLANETARY HEALTH TOOLBOX www.planetaryhealthbox.org

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NATIONAL ETHICAL GUIDELINES FOR BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN PARTICIPANTS

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) (2017) C1

These guidelines are applicable to all biomedical, social and behavioural science research for health conducted in India involving human participants, their biological material and data. The purpose of such research should be: i. directed towards enhancing knowledge about the human condition while ... more

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Living with the times: A mental health and psychosocial support toolkit for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC (2021) C1

This resource includes posters with key messages for older adults on how to take care of their well-being and how they can provide support to those around them during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. It includes instructions for facilitators of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) on how ... more

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An Invisible Crisis: Exploring Mental Health needs in the Syrian and Iraqi Crises

Médecins du Monde (2018) C1

It highlights the numerous challenges to quality service provision, along with the organisation’s response to mental health needs, and recommendations for international and regional decision-makers including: - Advocating and working towards mental health policies that support adequate funding f... more

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Guidelines for TB infection prevention and control for health care workers in Kenya
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National Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Lung Disease Unit, Ministry of Health, Kenya (2014) C1

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Unlocking the community health workforce potential, post-Ebola: what models and strategies work?

Wilton Park mPowering; USAID; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, et al. (2016) CC

There is strong evidence of the impact CHWs can have on health outcomes for their communities. Justification for investment in in CHWs has been well established, but there remain questions about how to find the resources to do this sustainably. Real and practical challenges to building and supportin... more

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Patient-Planetary Health Co-benefit Prescribing: Emerging Considerations for Health Policy and Health Professional Practice

N. Redverse (2021) C1

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Access to healthcare through community health workers in East and Southern Africa

Kumar, M.; R. Nefdt, E. Ribaira and K. Diallo UNICEF (2014) C_UNICEF

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Interim Briefing Note - Addressing Mental Health and Psychosocial Aspects of COVID-19 Outbreak - Version 1.5

IASC Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings; OCHA Services (2020) C2

February 2020

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ENGAGE-TB: integrating community-based tuberculosis activities into the work of nogovernmental and other civil society organizations: training of community health workers and community volunteers

Thomas Joseph, Nathalie Likhite, Lana Syed et al. World Health Organization (2015) C_WHO

Facilitator's Guide. This guide is designed to assist facilitators in training community health workers (CHWs) and community volunteers (CVs) in integrating community-based TB services into their work. The training will help community workers who already provide numerous services to understand TB an... more

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Exploration of Community Health Workers’ views about in their role and support in Primary Health Care in Northern Cape, South Africa

Ramukumba, M.M. Journal of Community Health (2019) CC

Community health workers (CHWs) play a significant role in Primary health Care due to their proximity to households, communities and the health care system. Many studies focus on CHWs and the work they do. However, few have examined their experiences and identity and how that might influence how the... more

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Ebola Virus Disease in Africa: Epidemiology and health facility related transmission

Shears, Paul, T.J.D. O'Dempsey (2015)

A review of current literature and up date data from the field, April 2015. This report has been published in part in J Hosp Inf. 2015;90:1-9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=ebola+nosocomial+shears

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Emergency health response plan for drought in Somalia: Early action to protect health and save lives April-December 2022

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2022) C_WHO

Nearly 260 000 people died in parts of Somalia between October 2010 and April 2012, including 133 000 children under five during the famine and food crisis in Somalia making it the worst famine in history. A study commissioned and funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Natio... more

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Gavi Alliance MS Roadmap for Oral Cholera Vaccines 4: The Market Shaping Goal Ensure healthy markets for vaccines and related products

GAVI Alliance (2023) C1

Geneva, 22 May 2023 – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance today published a roadmap* outlining critical actions needed to ensure supply of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) is able to meet growing demand from countries. Released against a backdrop of a recent wave of cholera outbreaks around the world, the roadma... more

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Beat the heat: Child health amid heatwaves in Europe and Central Asia

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2024) CC

Beat the heat: child health amid heatwaves in Europe and Central Asia finds that half of these children died from heat-related illnesses in their first year of life. Most children died during the summer months. "Around half of children across Europe and Central Asia – or 92 million children –... are already exposed to frequent heatwaves in a region where temperatures are rising at the fastest rate globally. The increasingly high temperatures can have serious health complications for children, especially the youngest children, even in a short space of time. Without care, these complications can be life-threatening,” said Regina De Dominicis UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia. Heat exposure has acute effects on children, even before they are born, and can result in pre-term births, low birth weight, stillbirth, and congenital anomalies. Heat stress is a direct cause of infant mortality, can affect infant growth and cause a range of paediatric diseases. The report also notes that extreme heat caused the loss of more than 32,000 years of healthy life among children and teenagers in the region. As the temperatures continue to rise, UNICEF urges governments across Europe and Central Asia to: - Integrate strategies to reduce the impact of heatwaves including through National Determined Contributions (NDC), National Adaptation Plans (NAP), and disaster risk reduction and disaster management policies with children at the centre of these plans Invest in heat health action plans and primary health care to more adequately support heat-related illness among children - Invest in early warning systems, including heat alert systems - Adapt education facilities to reduce the temperatures in the areas children play in and equip teachers with skills to respond to heat stress - Adapt urban design and infrastructure including ensuring buildings, particularly those housing the most vulnerable communities are equipped to minimize heat exposure - Secure the provision of safe water, particularly in countries with deteriorating water quality and availability. UNICEF works with governments, partners and communities across the region to build resilience against heatwaves. This includes equipping teachers, community health workers and families with the skills and knowledge to respond to heat stress. more

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The BRAC Manoshi Approach to Initiating a Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Project in Urban Slums with Social Mapping, Census Taking, and Community Engagement

Tapash Roy et al. (2015) C1

Accessed August 2015

Climate Change & Heat and Impact on Health recommended

Living with the times: A mental health and psychosocial support toolkit for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic recommended

Guidelines for TB infection prevention and control for health care workers in Kenya recommended

Climate Change & Heat and Impact on Health
recommended

Living with the times: A mental health and psychosocial support toolkit for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
recommended

Guidelines for TB infection prevention and control for health care workers in Kenya
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