The Covid-19 pandemic has the significant potential to affect the quality and scale up of nutrition, health and other lifesaving interventions. The restrictions on mobility and recommendations on social distancing will affect the way we work in our nutrition programmes and measures are needed to mit...igate the potential negative impact.
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The purpose of this article is to consider the relationshipbetween religion and healthcarein order to suggest how physicians and other health care providers shouldrespond when the faith-based preference of apatient clashes with the medically indicatedtreatment modalities.
In 2019, an estimated 10 million individuals fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) and 3 million of them were not reported to have beendiagnosed and notified. The gap is proportionately even wider for drug-resistant TB. Of the estimated 465 000 patients with rifampicin-resistant and multi-drug resistant T...B (RR/MDR-TB), only 206 030 (44%) were diagnosed and notified.For the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has provided global estimates of the incidence of isoniazid resistance: in 2019, there were 1.4 million incident cases of isoniazid-resistant TB, of which 1.1 million were susceptible to rifampicin. Most of these people were not diagnosed with drug-resistant TB and did not receive appropriate treatment.
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Information Booklet for Parents
Asegúrese de que su respuesta es equilibrada...
Algunas dimensiones que este documento contiene:
• Comunicaciones: Los trabajadores estarán expuestos a información contradictoria y se sentirán ansiosos o confusos sobre la mejor manera de actuar. Asegúrese de comunicar las pautas con p...rontitud, claridad y de manera equilibrada. Por otra parte, comunique la información en su contexto y la razón de las pautas, para que los empleados puedan profundizar en su comprensión y también poder llevar iniciativas en situaciones inesperadas, así como vacaciones, descansos, etc.
• Necesidades del equipo: las restricciones de viajes y reuniones pueden hacer peligrar las necesidades de los empleados para acceder a apoyo social y conexión, atención médica y provisiones diarias o similares. Debe anticiparse y desarrollar soluciones a las mismas y crear un canal de información donde los empleados puedan encontrar la información que necesiten. Muchas de esas necesidades serán específicas de la zona.
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Manual for use in primary care
For IST to be effective there is need for utilization of multiple techniques that will lead to transfer of competences (Bluestone et al. 2013). Learning settings should be selected to support relevant and realistic practice so as to increase the efficiency of IST. Alternatives to hotels such as trai...ning institutions and hospitals are viable options for reducing costs of IST as well as being appropriate venues (MOH 2012). There is documented evidence of involvement of academic institutions in providing health leadership capacity building through IST in other countries; for example, in Uganda, IST in leadership for doctors and nurses was done through a blended approach that included didactic and online sessions (Nakanjako et al. 2015). Adapting these concepts, FUNZOKenya piloted eight regional hubs, each serving a cluster of counties, which would train health workers for five years (2012-2016) on priority service delivery topics
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