As our world changes, so too does the burden of disease. Globalisation, evolving trade and consumption patterns, and increased access to life-saving medical care are just some of the factors that have transformed the global health landscape.
Q2: What are the effective interventions for preventing child abuse and its mental health consequences?
Reporting period January 2015 – December 2015
Bucharest, April 2016
Regional snapshot: Eastern Europe and Central Asia
December 2018
https://data.unicef.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/EECA-regional-snapshot-2018.pdf
This annual report gives an overview of WHO lesotho Country office's undertakings and achievements in the context of an extraordinary health emergency. As we walk another mile this year, may we embrace all lessonst leanred in the previous year, learn from what did not work so well and take on new op...portunities in championing health in the country.
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Policy Brief. More languages available here https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/179517
Policy and practice for maturity-aligned engagement of children in decisions about HIV-related medical and social services and management of confidential information
Kipling Beardsley, Health Policy Plus
Accessed: 26.10.2019
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents occurs when a child is exposed to one or more events that are unexpected, uncontrollable, life-threatening, and likely to cause serious harm or injury to himself/herself or someone significantly important to the child. In response, th...e child experiences fear, hopelessness, or horror and responds with a characteristic set of physiological and psychological reactions, which perpetuates the overwhelming and confusing feelings. Symptoms are characterized into three groups: persistent, intrusive re-experiencing of traumatic recollections; avoidance of reminders/numbing; and increased arousal.
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This article reexamines a set of study findings that directly relate to the influence of gender on workplace violence, synthesizes these findings with other research from Rwanda, and examines the subsequent impact of the study on Rwanda’s policy environment.
Provides a glossary of terms for healthcare providers to better understand the concepts within trauma-informed integrated care.
Section 1, Introduction to Men's Reproductive Health Services, Revised Edition, is designed to help sites and health care workers address organizational and attitudinal barriers that may exist when initiating, providing, or expanding a men's reproductive health services program. It also provides bas...ic information on a variety of reproductive health issues relevant to reproductive health services for men, including sexuality, gender, anatomy and physiology, contraception, and sexually transmitted infections.
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