Health care and social service systems are facing exceptional demands at this time. Evidence is emerging that the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting low-income neighborhoods, communities of color, immigrant and other economically and medically vulnerable patients. These are the patien...ts and communities Community Health Workers (CHWs) are best prepared
to serve. This workforce is defined by their connection to these populations and by their ability to communicate in linguistically and culturally appropriate ways.
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Fragile Beginnings. The Fragile Beginnings series examines the growing body of research on the unique vulnerabilities of children: in utero and at birth, during infancy and childhood and throughout adolescence. Its purpose is to enable evidence-based advocacy and action on children’s environmental... health
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Since 2016, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has been promoting the implementation of the HEARTS Initiative in the Americas as a regional adaptation of the World Health Organization's Global HEARTS Initiative. During this time, 33 countries in the Region of the Americas have committed to ...implementing HEARTS, and PAHO has developed many technical resources to support them. Most of these resources are clinical tools for primary healthcare teams and focus on quality improvement. This compendium aims to group all these clinical tools in a single document under a simple format that facilitates their practical implementation in daily clinical practice. The reader will notice that each tool is summarized on a single page and presented in a modular format. Therefore, each tool can be used together or separately as needed. In addition, at the bottom of each tool, the reader will find the references and hyperlinks to access full texts in case deeper knowledge is required.
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Directives de soins pour les centres de transfert de premier niveau dans les pays en développement
Recommendations for health care professionals – the experience from Latvia
Über 1200 Vokabeln und komplexe Begriffe zu Beschwerden, Untersuchung und Behandlung praxis- und patientengerecht in einfachen Bildern mit mehrsprachigen Untertiteln,
erweitert und überarbeitet, ausführliche Untersuchungen, Therapieerläuterungen und Pflege.
Der Patient guckt sich „seine“... Bilder aus und tippt sie beim Arzt an. Der Arzt wiederum kreuzt die Therapie und Medikation an. So ist man über Notfälle hinaus auch für die Regelversorgung präpariert, kommt exakt auf den Punkt, Vertrauliches bleibt vertraulich. Der Patient wird sofort aktiv eingebunden.
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Psychoactive substance use affects the functioning of the brain and leads to impaired driving
Integritas 4.3 (Fall 2014), pp. 1-30.
doi: 10.6017/integritas.v4i3p1
Weekly epidemiological record Relevé épidémiologique hebdomadaire 27 MARCH 2015, 90th YEAR / 27 MARS 2015, 90e ANNÉE No. 13, 2015, 90, 121–132
Village Hope Core International works in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and along with the Kenya Red Cross and Plan International are training their community health workers with these materials. Village HopeCore has reassigned their handwashing stations from schools to health facilities ...and are working on other solutions such as telemedicine, digital communication and other community-based interventions.
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Tanzania has an estimated 2.9 million adults with diabetes, 35% of whom are undiagnosed, and over 22,000 people living with type 1 diabetes. While the 2023 Universal Health Insurance law aims to improve access to care, only 15% of people are insured. Over 700 clinics provide diabetes care and offer ...free insulin to children and young adults. However, challenges remain regarding insulin availability, diagnostics, patient education and the healthcare workforce. Community engagement, training and policy advocacy are essential for improving diabetes management and achieving universal health coverage.
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Ce Manuel est destiné aux jeunes médecins, aux paramédicaux et aux étudiants qui sollicitent régulièrement la consultation d’un ouvrage pratique pouvant les orienter lors de leurs débuts en réanimation. Ce Manuel ne veut être ni un livre de référence exhaustif, ni un livret de recettes.... Il veut combiner des bases physiopathologiques simples à des recommandations
pratiques utiles en pratique courante. Les informations doivent souvent être complétées par d’autres sources. Cet ouvrage sera parfois trop en « franglais » aux yeux de certains. Il n’y a en tout cas aucun effort à trouver la traduction française de sigles et même de mots qui sont largement utilisés dans la littérature, et ainsi passés dans un langage que je qualifierai
d’international. J’espère que ce livre sera utile. Cette cinquième édition a permis certaines améliorations, largement dues aux remarques et critiques, qui sont toujours très appréciées.
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Compte tenu des lacunes en matière d'infrastructures et de ressources, il convient d'envisager de recourir à la technologie pour la gestion à distance des soins de santé dispensés aux patients pendant cette période. Comme on peut le constater, même les pays disposant d'infrastructures et de r...essources de soins de santé plus avancées ont eu du mal à traiter les patients atteints de COVID-19 ou non pendant cette pandémie.
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