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Climate-Smart Healthcare : Low-Carbon and Resilience Strategies for the Health Sector

The World Bank Group (2017) CC

Climate change is damaging human health now and is projected to have a greater impact in the future. Low- and middle-income countries are seeing the worst effects as they are most vulnerable to climate shifts and least able to adapt given weak health systems and poor infrastructure. Low-carbon appro ... more

Better Parenting Curriculum Nigeria: Community Discussion Guide

Catholic Relief Services CRS; 4Children; InHealth, et al. (2018) C1

ts goals are to ensure that: Children and parents experience fewer conflicts; Parents make better decisions about the care of their children and are better able to solve problems; and Children feel more supported by their families t ... more

Self-Directed M&E Learning Workbook 2: Doing the “M” of M & E

Ministry of Health & Ministry of Local Government, Gabarone, Botswana (2011) C2

District Level M & E Training and Reference Material for Primary Health Care Programmes

TB: Why You Should Not Discriminate

World Economic Forum (2017) C2

Adapted from a fact sheet on TB from the International Council of Nurse’s Global TB/MDR-TB Resource Centre at: http://www.icn.ch/tb/stigma.htm. Accessed November 2017

Screening for cardiovascular disease risk and subsequent management in low and middle income countries: challenges and opportunities

Bovet, P.; Chiolero, A.; Paccaud, F. et al. Public Health Reviews (2015) CC

Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD), mainly heart attack and stroke, is the leading cause of premature mortality in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Identifying and managing individuals at high risk of CVD is an important strategy to prevent and control CVD, in addition to multisector ... al population-based interventions to reduce CVD risk factors in the entire population. Methods: We describe key public health considerations in identifying and managing individuals at high risk of CVD in LMICs. Results: A main objective of any strategy to identify individuals at high CVD risk is to maximize the number of CVD events averted while minimizing the numbers of individuals needing treatment. Scores estimating the total risk of CVD (e.g. ten-year risk of fatal and non-fatal CVD) are available for LMICs, and are based on the main CVD risk factors (history of CVD, age, sex, tobacco use, blood pressure, blood cholesterol and diabetes status). Opportunistic screening of CVD risk factors enables identification of persons with high CVD risk, but this strategy can be widely applied in low resource settings only if cost effective interventions are used (e.g. the WHO Package of Essential NCD interventions for primary health care in low resource settings package) and if treatment (generally for years) can be sustained, including continued availability ofaffordable medications and funding mechanisms that allow people to purchase medications without impoverishing them (e.g. universal access to health care). Thisalso emphasises the need to re-orient health systems in LMICs towards chronic diseases management. Conclusion: The large burden of CVD in LMICs and the fact that persons with high CVD can be identified and managed along cost-effective interventions mean that health systems need to be structured in a way that encourages patient registration, opportunistic screening of CVD risk factors, efficient procedures for the management of chronic conditions (e.g. task sharing) and provision of affordable treatment for those with high CVD risk. The focus needs to be in primary care because that is where most of the population can access health care and because CVD programmes can be run effectively at this level. more

Laboratory diagnosis of Buruli ulcer
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Portaels, F- World Health Organization WHO (2014) C_WHO

A manual for health care providers. This manual provides expert guidance on the laboratory techniques and procedures used in the diagnosis of Buruli ulcer, a disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. Aimed at laboratory technicians and scientists w ... more

Global report on infection prevention and control
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World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Health care-associated infections (HAIs) affect patients and health systems every day, causing immense suffering, driving higher health-care costs and hampering efforts to achieve high-quality ... more

Developing, Implementing, and Monitoring the Use of Standard Treatment Guidelines: A SIAPS How-To Manual

Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) MSH, USAID (2015) CC

STGs are designed to assist health care professionals in making decisions about appropriate, effective patient care. However, health managers often have trouble setting and meeting the high standard ... more

Making every baby count: audit and review of stillbirths and neonatal deaths

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

The approach is in line with two of the five objectives outlined in the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP): Strategic Objective 2 – Improve the quality of maternal and newborn care; and Strategic Objective 5 – Count every newborn through measureme ... more

Клінічна Допомога при Важкій Гострій Респіраторній Iнфекції
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World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Clinical care for severe acute respiratory infection: toolkit: COVID-19 adaptation

No Time to Wait: Securing the future from drug-resistant infections

IACG Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicral Resistance (2019) C_WHO

UN, international agencies and experts released a groundbreaking report demanding immediate, coordinated and ambitious action to avert a potentially disastrous drug-resistance crisis. If no action is taken - warns the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordin ... more

Essential Package of Health Services

Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, Liberia (2011) C1

Primary Care: The Community Health System

Diagnosis of dementia

World Health Organization (2012) C_WHO

Q6: Can dementia be diagnosed at first or second level care by non-specialist health care providers? What should be the assessment process for the diagnosis of dementia?

Global medication waste management practices: challenges and opportunities in developing countries

Bataduwaarachchi, V.R.; and C.L.Weeraratne (2016) CC

International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology 5(6):2290-2294 DOI: 10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20164081

HIV Molecular diagnostics Toolkit to improve access to viral load testing and infant diagnosis

WHO World Health Organization (2019) C_WHO

Toolkit HIV Treatment and Care

Desinstitucionalización de la atención psiquiátrica en América Latina y el Caribe

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2021) C_WHO

This publication summarizes the facilitators and barriers that will be encountered in the deinstitutionalization process and identifies useful and proven interventions in Latin American and Caribbean countries. Four areas of work are identified with the respective guidelines or suggestions for actio ... more

Self-Directed M&E Learning Workbook 1: An Orientation to District-Level Monitoring & Evaluation Duties

Ministry of Health & Ministry of Local Government, Gabarone, Botswana (2011) C2

District Level M & E Training and Reference Material for Primary Health Care Programmes

Beyond the Rhetoric: Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival in Nepal

Sharma, G. & Pandey, S.R. Nepal Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (NJOG) (2015) CC

Nepal has performed exceptionally in improving reproductive, maternal and child health outcomes over the past two decades. In this article, we discuss these achievements and outline a vision for the future of maternal, newborn and child survival in Nepal after the era of the Millennium Development G ... more

Plan de acciόn sobre salud mental 2013-2020.
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World Health Organization (2013) C_WHO

Four major objectives are set forth: more effective leadership and governance for mental health; the provision of comprehensive, integrated mental health and social care services in community-based settings; implementation of strategies for promotio ... more