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Guidelines on mental health promotive and preventive interventions for adolescents

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

The Guidelines on promotive and preventive mental health interventions for adolescents - Helping Adolescents thrive (HAT), provide evidence-informed recommendations on psychosocial interventions to promote mental health, prevent mental disorders, an ... more

In Control: A Practical Handbook for Professionals Working in Health Emergencies Internationally RKI

Robert Koch Institut RKI (2023) CC

The greatest risk to persons engaging in international medical emergency response is poor preparation. The In Control handbook hopes to provide a remedy. At ... the time of writing, we are living through the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a health emergency that disregards physical borders, brings into focus social inequalities and affects people on every continent. This shared challenge requires unprecedented measures and the collaboration of the brightest minds to support global health protection through this crisis and beyond. Healthcare infrastructures have to be strengthened, public health capacities and processes upgraded, medical countermeasures and vaccinations found and psychosocial side-effects treated. Solidarity is the normative order of the day and the human species has to collaborate to face this invisible threat. Hiding and living in fear is not an option in this interconnected world. We have both a responsibility and an opportunity to make substantial contributions to a safer, healthier and more sustainable future for us all. The existence of this handbook is an impressive example of solidarity. Over 50 authors from more than 15 institutes and organisations have come together voluntarily within a very short time to make their expertise available and enable cross-sectoral thinking. Knowledge is bundled, resources are combined, information gaps are filled. The In Control handbook is not a theoretical treatise of possible dangers, but a collection of subject-matter expertise, written by experts and practitioners who have shaped health topics over the past 20 years in the most diverse corners of the world. The Centre for International Health Protection at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is collaborating with its partners and investing heavily in the build-up of operational know-how and capacity to support health crisis response abroad. This is done by preparing and enabling professionals to deploy safely across the world to assist those in need. In Control addresses the multi-faceted challenges of an international deployment. Readers will find not only technical medical information, but also insights into, for example, the fragility of our environment, the cultural differences that influence risk communication or the dilemmas arising from social distancing. Legal principles are highlighted, along with ethical guidance to ensure that our actions and decisions correspond to the highest moral standards. more

In Control. A Practical Handbook for Professionals Working in Health Emergencies Internationally
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Germany’s National Public Health Institute (RKI), et al. (2021) C1

In Control imparts knowledge, provokes reflection and triggers curiosity. The first half of the book provides an overview of the organisations, pri ... more

WHO manual on sugar-sweetened beverage taxation policies to promote healthy diets

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2022) C_WHO

Obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have been steadily increasing globally, and with them, a pressing need to implement effective responses to address the contributing factors. Among t ... more

Health Care Waste

Jeff Conant and Pam Fadem Hesperian (2012) C1

A Community Guide to Environmental Health > Chapter 19: Health Care Waste. Please download this chapter from the website of Hesperian

HIV-related Needs in Internally Displaced Persons and Other Conflict-affected Populations: A Rapid Situation Assessment Tool
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UNHCR; UNAIDS (2007) CC

This assessment tool for HIV and internally displaced persons (IDPs) is an outcome of multisectoral, multi-agency assessment missions in Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal and the ... more

Guidelines for enhancing optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Government of India (2013) C1

Background Paper on Attacks Against Girls Seeking to Access Education

United Nations Women’s Human Rights and Gender (WRG) (2015)

Nepal: Saarc Guidelines for Partnership with School in Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS

SAARC Tuberculosis and HIVAIDS Centre (2006) C1

Mindeststandards zum Schutz von geflüchteten Menschen in Flüchtlingsunterkünten
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Bundesministerium für Familie; UNICEF (2021) CC

Diese dienen als Leitlinien zur Entwicklung, Umsetzung und dem Monitoring von unterkunftsspezifischen Schutzkonzepten. Differenziert nach zentralen Handlungsfeldern zeigen die Mindeststandards einen Weg auf, wie der bedarfsgerechte Schutz von geflüchteten Menschen in Unterkünften für Geflüchtete ... more

Praxisleitfaden: Prävention und Umgang mit Gewalt- und Gefährdungssituationen/Risikomanagement

Unicef (2019) C_UNICEF

Der vorliegende Leitfaden ist als praktisches Tool gedacht, das Leitungs-, Fach- und Betreuungskräfte dabei unterstützen soll, Mindeststandard 4 (Prävention und Umgang mit Gewalt- und Gefährdungssituationen/Risikomanagement) umzusetzen und in ihren Arbeitsalltag zu integrieren. Der Leitfaden ver ... more

Best Practices in health care waste management
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Health Care Without Harm Asia (2007) C1

Examples from four Philippine Hospitals

Reabilitação Baseada na Comunidade

Governo de Estato Sao Paulo World Health Organization WHO (2010) C_WHO

Diretrizes RBC

Kinderfreundliche Orte und Angebote für geflüchtete und migrierte Menschen in Deutschland

Unicef (2018) C_UNICEF

Mit kinderfreundlichen Orten und Angeboten werden Räume und Beziehungsangebote geschaffen, in denen Kinder einfach wieder Kinder sein können. Im internationalen Kontext ist die Einrichtung von Child Friendly Spaces in Kriegs- und Krisenregionen fest etabliert. In einkommensstarken Ländern gibt es ... more

Sierra Leone: National Community Health Worker Policy 2016–2020

Ministry of Health and Sanitation of Sierra Leone (2016) C1

Protection des enfants: Manuel de formation psychosociale (Boite a outils)
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Terre des hommes TDH (2008) C1

Le Manuel de formation psychosociale pour la Protection des enfants de Terre des hommes répond aux besoins des programmes de protection de l’enfance menés par Terre des hommes et peut être utilisé en parallèle à la publication précédente de Terre des hommes: Protection des enfants: manue ... more

10 Insights on Climate Impacts and Peace

Detges, A.; Klingenfeld D. , König C., et al. adelphi (2020) C1

A summary of what we know