18 March 2020
WHO and public health authorities around the world are acting to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. However, this time of crisis is generating stress throughout the population. The considerations presented in this document have been developed by the WHO Department of Mental Health and S...ubstance Use as a series of messages that can be used in communications to support mental and psychosocial well-being in different target groups during the outbreak.
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Em janeiro de 2020, a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) declarou o surto da doença do novo coronavírus como Emergência de Saúde Pública de Importância Internacional. A OMS afirmou que havia um alto risco de que a doença do coronavírus 2019 (COVID-19) se espalhasse por outros países no m...undo todo. Em março de 2020, a OMS avaliou que a COVID-19 podia ser caracterizada como pandemia. A OMS e autoridades de saúde pública no mundo todo estão agindo para conter o surto da COVID-19. Entretanto, essa crise está gerando estresse na população. Essas considerações de saúde mental foram desenvolvidas pelo Departamento de Saúde Mental e Uso de Substâncias da OMS como uma série de mensagens dirigidas a diferentes grupos para apoiar o bem-estar mental e psicossocial durante o surto de COVID-19.
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This editorial will consider the often heralded and sometimes belittled Surgical Safety Checklist (SSCL) for its general benefits, potential utility, and range of evidence attesting to its value in quality and safety improvement.
WHO lists 9th COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use to expand vaccination access in low-income countries, 17 December 2021
El objetivo de esta GPC es proporcionar recomendaciones para el tamizaje organizado
del CCR en el territorio nacional, permitiendo el acceso equitativo a medidas de
prevención y detección temprana de la enfermedad con el fin de disminuir la
incidencia y la mortalidad por el CCR en Argentina.... Esta guía está destinada a todos
aquellos trabajadores de la salud que desarrollen actividades de prevención del CCR.
La población objetivo incluye a aquellos individuos de riesgo promedio, sin
antecedentes personales ni familiares de CCR ni adenomas. Sin embargo, aquellos
individuos identificados con presencia de síntomas sospechosos de CCR, individuos
con incremento del riesgo para el desarrollo de esta enfermedad (síndrome de Lynch,
PAF, PAFA, poliposis hamartomatosas, síndrome de poliposis aserrada, EII, etc.) o con
antecedentes de resecciones de pólipos o adenomas, deberán ser priorizados en el
seguimiento o derivados a atención especializada consecuente, según las
recomendaciones vigentes.
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Recommandations pour une approche de santé publique
Programme VIH/SIDA
The primary audience for the guideline is health programme managers, including governmental and non-governmental organizations, and policy makers who are responsible for designing maternal, newborn and child health programmes, primarily in low-income settings. The guideline is also aimed at health p...roviders and teaching institutions, to increase knowledge of interventions. Development programmes and organizations supporting women’s empowerment and rights will also find this guideline of use.
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Practical considerations
It provides more detailed and practical guidance for continuing services for each life stage across the life-course continuum. As such, both documents should be read and used together. The countries in South-East Asia and the Pacific regions would like to adapt the guidance... within the national and sub-national continuity plans, based on the local situation of COVID-19 transmission, containment response and health system capacity.
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Front. Vet. Sci., 01 December 2021
Die deutschen Hochschulen und Studentenwerke können auf eine jahrzehntelange Erfahrung bei der Integration von ausländischen Studierenden am Hochschul- und Forschungsstandort Deutschland zurückblicken. Die Integration von Flüchtlingen in Angebote zur Studienvorbereitung und das reguläre Studium... stellt Hochschulen und Studentenwerke allerdings oftmals vor zusätzliche Herausforderungen und bringt neue Fragen mit sich.
Die vorliegende Handreichung soll dabei unterstützen, die gezeigte Willkommenskultur der deutschen Hochschulen und Studentenwerke weiter zu fördern.
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These ICRC guidelines outline the organization’s approach to mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) during and after armed conflict and other situations of violence. They provide a framework for harmonizing MHPSS programmes within the organization, and an insight into its strategic process...es and field practices.
This publication is not intended to serve as a training manual for specific MHPSS techniques. In sharing these guidelines with an external audience, the ICRC aims to raise awareness of its approach among professionals and other interested parties.
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The aim of the operational framework is to ensure 1) accurate collection, handling, shipment and storage of specimens collected in countries implementing HIV drug resistance surveillance; and 2) the availability of quality-assured HIV genotyping laboratory services producing comparable and reliable ...results at the national, regional and global levels.
This publication updates the WHO HIVResNet HIV drug resistance laboratory operational framework published in 2017 and reflects technical and strategic developments over the past three years.
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This Summary for Policymakers (SPM) presents key findings of the Working Group I (WGI) contribution to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) on the physical science basis of climate change. The report builds upon the 2013 Working Group I contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5...) and the 2018–2019 IPCC Special Reports of the AR6 cycle and
incorporates subsequent new evidence from climate science
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