Broken Links: Psychosocial support for people separated from family members (Training
module) and the corresponding Broken Links field guide are designed to support staff and
volunteers in a wide range of settings where they may be in contact with families who have
been separated from their loved... ones. The field guide and the training module outline the
causes and consequences of being separated from family members, as well as the types of
contact staff and volunteers might have with families affected by separation.
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                                                                This chapter of the AMP LLIN Mass Campaign Toolkit outlines the strategic communication approaches that are essential before, during and after long-lasting insecticide-treated net (LLIN) distribution campaigns. It emphasises the importance of setting up a national communications sub-committee under ...the leadership of the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) and the Ministry of Health (MoH) to coordinate advocacy, social mobilisation and behaviour change communication (BCC). The aim of these three components is to secure political and financial support, mobilise communities, and promote sustained net use through tailored, multi-channel messaging. Effective coordination and planning are critical for successful malaria prevention efforts.
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                                                                It aims to enable participants to:
    know more about reactions to distress
    know what psychological first aid is and what it is not
    understand the three action principles of ‘Look, Listen and Link’
    have practised providing PFA to someone in distress
    have considered comple...x reactions and situations
    be aware of the importance of self-care when helping others.
This training module is one of four on psychological first aid, which accompany a set of materials on psychological first aid
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                                                                Group psychological help for adults impaired by distress in communities exposed to adversity
With this manual, the World Health Organization (WHO) is responding to requests from colleagues around the world for a group version of the manual Problem Management Plus (PM+), which was developed for adul...ts impaired by distress in communities who are exposed to adversity. Aspects of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) have been changed to make them feasible in communities that do not have many specialists. To ensure maximum use, the intervention is developed in such a way that it can help people with depression, anxiety and stress, whether or not exposure to adversity has caused these problems. It can be applied to improve aspects of mental health and psychosocial well-being no matter how severe people’s problems are.
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                                                                A book of methods, aids, and ideas for instructors at the village level 
An indispensable resource for health educators, this book provides hundreds of methods, aids, and learning strategies to make health education engaging and effective, encouraging community involvement through participatory edu...cation.
You can download chapter by chapter free of charge
The previous version (2005) is freely available here
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                                                                NSW Disaster Mental Health Handbook 4
The Disaster Mental Health Manual and associated handbooks are intended as a resource for mental health staff who are seeking background information and practical guidance and resources to assist in a disaster mental health response. 
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Dieser 40-seitige Ratgeber richtet sich an geflüchtete und neuzugewanderte Männer und möchte helfen, die Orientierung in Deutschland bei Fragen zum Thema Gewalt zu erleichtern. Er möchte über die Schutz- und Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten informieren, sowie über Möglichkeiten, gewalttätiges V...erhalten bei sich selbst oder anderen zu erkennen und zu verringern. Die Themen des Ratgebers sind:
    Formen zwischenmenschlicher Gewalt und Folgen für Betroffene
    Der Einfluss von Werten und Normen auf Gewalthandeln
    Wandel in der Einstellung zu Gewalt
    Rechtliche Grundlagen und Gesetze in Deutschland
    Psychologische Ursachen für gewaltsames Verhalten
    Wege aus der Gewalt
Der Ratgeber wurde im Rahmen des bundesweiten Projekts „MiMi-Gewaltprävention mit Migrantinnen für Migrantinnen” entwickelt.
Er steht in 15 Sprachen zum Download zur Verfügung.
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                                                                At least 2.2 million people were exposed to the earthquake, about 2,100 people have died, and more than 12,000 were injured as at 20 August. The death toll is expected to rise as the search for victims trapped under rubble continues. The Government has declared a month-long state of emergency for th...e most affected departments (LCI 19/08/2021; USAID 18/08/2021 a).
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                                                                Aims of the CNS programme:
- To provide accessibility to quality nursing care and related services including clinical assessment and personalized care for persons enrolled/entitled to CNS services.
- To enhance the independence and health outcomes of entitled persons by avoiding early admi...ssion to hospital and/or residential care by providing access to CNS.
- To provide nursing, midwifery and advanced/specialized care through CNS delivered by a skills mix of registered and enrolled nurses.
- To facilitate provision of preventive, promotive and rehabilitative services to the community.
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                                                                This manual is addressed to health care providers dealing with Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer). The manual aims to achieve a better understanding of the disease, its clinical presentation and its surgical management. The manual is aimed particularly at district health care providers. A... comprehensive protocol, adapted to each form and stage of the disease, is presented together with comments on the levels of resources and capabilities necessary
to shorten the length of treatment, to prevent complications and to minimize undesired sequelae and thus to obtain the best possible outcome for each patient. Some sections include advice relevant to surgeons (e.g. relating to bone infection). However, the level to which particular comments are intended to apply should be clear from the context.
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                                                                Climate change is already having severe impacts across our planet, bringing new and previously unimaginable challenges to the people least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions.
This report, the first we’ve released jointly in the history of our organizations, provides a sobering review of h...ow just one of those challenges – the increase in deadly heat-waves – threatens to drive new emergency needs in the not-so-distant future.
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                                                                Introduction The novel Coronavirus (nCoV) epidemic in 2019 -2020 has recently emerged. The route of transmission is not totally known, although it is known that it can spread from person to person, and local health care systems may be ill-equipped to handle a large-scale outbreak. Furthermore, misco...nceptions and misinformation about the disease often spreads rapidly in such epidemics.
In previous epidemics mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) has been identified as a key priority. MHPSS ensures the well-being of the affected populations, and counter-acts the threats to public health and safety that fear, stigmatization and misconception pose. Access to information, knowledge about the disease and how it spreads, make it easier for the affected to feel supported and calm, and to comply with instructions. Furthermore, psychosocial support to staff and volunteers help the operation as work conditions are extremely stressful.
This briefing note provides background knowledge on the MHPSS aspects related to nCoV and suggests MHPSS activities that can be implemented. The messages can be helpful for those in contact with patients or relatives and feel the strain of working and living during the epidemic. The briefing is aimed both at those working in any capacity with those affected by nCoV and for the MHPSS responders who implement MHPSS activities and interventions for everyone affected.
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                                                                The aim of this publication is to provide practical guidance for public information officers on the  preparation  for  and  response  to  a  nuclear  or  radiological  emergency,  and  to  fulfil  in  part  functions  assigned  to  the  IAEA  in  the  Convention  on  Assistance  in  the  Case  of  a...  Nuclear  
Accident   or   Radiological   Emergency   (Assistance   Convention),   as   well   as   meeting   requirements   stated   in   IAEA   Safety   Standards   Series   No.   SF-1,   Fundamental   Safety   Principles,  and  in  IAEA  Safety  Standards  No.  GS-R-2,  Preparedness  and  Response  for  a  Nuclear or Radiological Emergency. 
Also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish: https://www-pub.iaea.org/books/IAEABooks/8889/Communication-with-the-Public-in-a-Nuclear-or-Radiological-Emergency
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                                                                Over 244,000 displaced people remain in camps or camp-like situations in Kachin, Shan, Rakhine
and Kayin states. Children make up at least 50 per cent of this population, while women and„Myanmar: 2019 Humanitarian Needs Overview - Myanmar“. ReliefWeb. Zugegriffen 4. Januar 2019. https://reliefw...eb.int/report/myanmar/myanmar-2019-humanitarian-needs-overview.
children together make up about 77 per cent. This includes approximately 97,000 people in
Kachin, 8,800 in Shan and 10,300 in Kayin who remain displaced as a result of the armed conflict.
It also includes about 128,000 people in Rakhine, the vast majority of whom are stateless, who
were displaced as a result of the violence in 2012. 
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                                                                Le  présent  document  vise  à  sensibiliser  le  corps  médical  ainsi  que les autres intervenants de la santé et du social à la situation souvent précaire des réfugiés traumatisés ainsi qu’à encadrer leur pratique. Il dispense des connaissances générales et donne des pistes utiles p...our l’abord  et  le  suivi  de  ces  patients.
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                                                                his  manual  is  for  people  who  have  had  no  formal  training  in  counselling  but  wish  to  learn  the  necessary  components  to  establishing  an  effective  counselling  relationship.  It  will  be  useful  for  anyone who is involved in counselling people with a mental health problem.
h...is  manual  aims  at  providing  counsellors  with  information  about  the  basic  skills  required  in  counselling  in  a  practical  and  simple  to  understand  format.  It  is  meant  to  accompany  the  Healthy  Activity  Program  (HAP)  and  Counselling  for  Alcohol  Problems  (CAP)  manuals  for  counselling  patients with depression and harmful/dependent drinking in primary care settings.
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