A Community Guide to Environmental Health > Chapter 19: Health Care Waste. Please download this chapter from the website of Hesperian
The IAPB School Eye Health Workgroup has released these guidelines to help deliver standardised comprehensive eye health services to more than 700 million children attending schools around the world. These guidelines direct the planning and implementation of school eye health initiatives for policym...akers, health authorities, and related professionals. They emphasize effective, efficient, and sustainable programs, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Monitoring and evaluation should be planned from the outset, and existing local guidelines should be integrated.
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The primary aim of this assessment is to evaluate current approaches to malaria surveillance in Myanmar and to provide a set of practical and feasible recommendations to further strengthen the surveillance system in the short to medium term. The assessment focuses on the surveillance of malaria case...s (as distinct from more general surveillance to support monitoring and evaluation) and, more specifically, on instruments and systems to collect, collate, report and analyse malaria data as a basis for informing malaria control policy and practice.
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WHO Regional EVD Preparedness Meeting Presentations January 14-16, 2015
This is the first national Policy to combat AMR in Cambodia. It was developed based on conclusions and recommendations of a country situaytion analysis.
Checklist for including children with disabilities in preparedness (English) | Preparedness checklist
Government measures in response to the outbreak have included severe restrictions on movement and physical distancing, which will inevitably impact the way we engage communities. This document provides key messages and practical tips for such community engagement.
Community Health Volunteers
A free course to help journalists translate the language of vaccine science and the promise of vaccine access into compelling human stories.
Временное руководство
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Учреждения долговременного ухода (далее – УДУ), такие как дома-интернаты и реабилитационные центры, – это учреждения по уходу... за лицами с физической или психической инвалидностью, многие из которых – лица пожилого возраста. Проживающие в УДУ лица относятся к уязвимым категориям населения; для них характерен более высокий уровень риска неблагоприятных исходов и инфекционных заболеваний в связи с постоянным пребыванием в замкнутом пространстве с другими людьми.
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Standard Treatment Guideline
“Wearing masks is important. We want to recommend widespread use of masks. We are recommending that people can use cloth masks, just make sure there’s a three layer kind of thing.”Dr Zweli Mkhize, Minister of Health
available in: Xitsonga, Tshivenda, Siswati, Setswana, Sesotho, Sepedi, isiZul...u, isiXhosa, isi Ndebele, Afrikaans
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Biorisk reduction combines expertise and advice on high consequence pathogens with guidance and training on safe handling and control of disease agents that pose significant health risks, with potential for adverse economic impact and public concern.
Biorisk management includes analysis of ways a...nd development of strategies to minimize the likelihood of the occurrence of biorisks. The goal of biorisk reduction is to ensure that current scientific knowledge regarding viral hemorrhagic fevers, epidemic-prone orthopoxviruses, and emerging severe zoonotic diseases affecting humans, is maintained in order to apply the most appropriate guidance for treatment, control, and safety to mitigate the risks regardless of the source of the disease event.
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