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Training in monitoring and epidemiological assessment of mass drug administration for eliminating lymphatic filariasis: learners’ guide

World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO; Institutional research information sharing iris (2013) C_WHO

Training in monitoring and epidemiological assessment of mass drug administration for eliminating lymphatic filariasis: learners’ guide. World Health Organization.

Climate Change and Chagas Disease in the americas: A qualitative systematic review

Graves B.N. (2019) C2

Chagas disease is currently endemic and also predicted to be at increased transmission risk under future climate change scenarios. Similarly, an expansion of areas in the United States at increased risk for Chagas disease transmission is also expected over the next several decades under climate chan ... more

Technical series on adapting to climate-sensitive health impacts: Diarrhoeal diseases

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

This guide presents a basis for understanding how diarrhoeal diseases are currently influenced by climate and weather, and may be further exacerbated by climate change. It is a technical guide on how to conduct a Vulnerability & Adaptation assessment for diarrhoeal diseases and climate change, and p ... more

Satellite Imagery Interpretation Guide : Displaced Population Camps

Isaac L. Baker, Brittany L. Card, Nathaniel A. Raymond Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (2012)

Camps is intended to help address the absence of public and standardized training resources for those seeking to use high resolution satellite imagery in support of refugee/IDP assistance operations. Students, general audiences, and volunteers studying and analyzing satellite imagery of displaced po ... more

Scoping review of interventions to maintain essential services for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and older people during disruptive events

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

To support countries in adapting their response to different COVID-19 scenarios, the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing commissioned this scoping review of published and grey literature. The objective was to identify interventions ... more

Anxiety Disorders. An information Guide

Rector, N., D. Bourdeau, K. Kitchen, et al. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health CAMH (2008) CC

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

Formulary of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances for Ethiopia

Drug Administration and Control Authority (DACA) of Ethiopia (2004) C1

Assessment of Food Security and Nutrition Situation in Nepal

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2010) C1

Ethiopia: Standard Treatment Guidelines for Health Center

Drug Administration and Control Authority of Ethiopia Contents (2014) C1

3rd edition

WHO best practices for injections and related procedures toolkit

World Health Organization; SIGN (2010) C_WHO

The WHO guidelines provide recommended steps for safe phlebotomy and reiterate accepted principles for drawing, collecting blood and transporting blood to laboratories/blood banks.

Practical Guide to Mental Health Problems
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Sian Hawkins International Assistance Mission (2014) C2

This 88 page book is designed to help primary care workers understand mental health problems and how they can be treated. Mental health problems from childhood to old age are examined. The book focuses primarily on the Afghan culture but is also relevant to a wider community

HIV and young people who inject drugs

A. Armstrong; J. Baer; R. Baggaley; et al. UNAIDS; World Health Organization; UNFPA; et al. (2015) C_WHO

Technical Brief

Responses of the Catholic Church to HIV and AIDS in Africa: Lessons learned. Summary

Fleischer, K. et al. German Bishops' Conference Research Group on International Church Affairs (2015) CC

An international field study by African and German Theologicans and health workers

Challenges of sustainable mental health care and psychosocial support in low- and middle income countries

Petra G.H. Aarts War Trauma Foundation (2010)

Contracting between faith-based and public health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa: an ongoing crisis? The cases of Cameroon, Tanzania, Chad and Uganda

Delphine Boulenger, Basile Keugoung & Bart Criel, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp Medicus Mundi International Network (MMI) (2009) C1

Hospital safety Index Guide for Evaluators

World Health Organization WHO World Health Organization and Pan American Health Organization (2015) C_WHO

Guide

The Minimum Standards for Age and Disability Inclusion in Humanitarian Action
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ADCAP Age & Disability Capacity; USAID; UKAid; IFRC; et al. Help Age International (2015) CC

The Minimum Standards for Age and Disability Inclusion in Humanitarian Action inform the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian programmes across all sectors and phases of response, and in all emergency contexts, ensuring older people and people with disabilities are not e ... more

Sierra Leone National Nutrition Survey 2014

Ministry of Health and Sanitaton Sierra Leone and UNICEF Sierra Leone (2014)

Strategic plan for the prevention and control of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (2010–2015)

World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean (2010) C_WHO