The WHO Guide on Cholera Control in Complex Emergencies provides key steps for preparedness, prevention, and response to cholera and other diarrheal diseases in crisis situations. It highlights the importance of early warning systems, rapid response, and coordination among health agencies. The guide... outlines measures for case management, water sanitation, hygiene promotion, and outbreak containment, particularly in refugee camps and disaster-affected areas. It emphasizes community involvement, surveillance, and proper health infrastructure to reduce mortality and control disease spread in vulnerable populations.
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A free course to help journalists translate the language of vaccine science and the promise of vaccine access into compelling human stories.
Easy Read Version | Easy Read Report on Intellectual Disability in Ghana
The Feedback Starter-Kit responds to key questions ( ) and provides the most important tips ( ) for setting up and running a simple feedback mechanism. At the end of this document there is an overview of the templates needed to plan the mechanism and collect, answer, analyse and share community feed...back data. These templates contain the necessary basic elements to implement and run a feedback mechanism.
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Усиление мер реагирования системздравоохранения на COVID-19: техническое руководство № 3: поставки основныхлекарственных препаратов и медицинских приборов, 6 апреля ...2020 г
Strengthening the health systems response to COVID-19: technical guidance #3: supply of essential medicines and health technologies, 6 April 2020
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RBC/IHDPC/ EID Division | November2011 - The aim of the standard operating procedures is to guide health care providers and public health
experts from various levels of the health system in the implementation of enhanced surveillance of meningococcal meningitis.
Conditioned domestic financing policy, referring to the domestic financing of health projects, programs, and national responses conditioned by global health funding agencies and recipient country governments, is one mechanism to promote sustainability and country ownership. We aim to understand how ...the concept is defined and operationalized by agencies and how such policies relate to overall health spending patterns.
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Der BAGSO-Ratgeber informiert kompakt und verständlich zu Impfungen für Erwachsene ab 60 Jahren. Er gibt Antworten auf zwölf häufig gestellte Fragen, u.a. für wen welche Impfungen besonders wichtig sind, wo man sich beraten lassen kann und ob die Kosten von der Krankenkasse übernommen werden. ...Ein Adressteil benennt Ansprechpartner, die bei Bedarf weiterführende Informationen anbieten.
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Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases 8(11): e3229 (20 November 2014)
Beitrag aus dem Handbuch "Biologische Gefahren II - Entscheidungshilfen zu medizinisch angemessenen Vorgehensweisen in einer B-Gefahrenlage".
Das Kompendium setzt sich mit der medizinischen Versorgung von Personen auseinander, die biowaffenfähigen Erregern vermutlich oder gesichert ausgesetzt war...en. Es richtet sich in erster Linie an Ärzte, sonstiges medizinisches Personal, Hilfsorganisationen und Personen aus öffentlichen Einrichtungen sowie an die Bevölkerung, die aus beruflichen oder privaten Gründen an dem Thema interessiert ist.
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The Government of Myanmar has taken initial steps to implement some of the
recommendations, particularly those made by the Advisory Commission. The overarching
objectives of the recommendations, however, remain largely unaddressed, with no
significant progress observed on human rights concerns ra...ised in previous reports
submitted to the Human Rights Council. The High Commissioner recommends that the
Government of Myanmar take action to ensure compliance with its international human
rights obligations.
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to identify measure and decide how to meet the humanitarian needs of disaster-affected community
Herausforderungen und Handlungsempfehlungen
Civil Society Organisations’ contribution towards community engagement to access and demand health services and encourage communities to practice appropriate health-seeking behaviour in Mon and Chin States. The study recognizes that civil society can promote people-centered health by creating an e...nabling environment for broad and active citizen participation. The VHCs/Volunteer Working Groups play a key role in facilitating engagement between the village community and the Basic Health Staff (BHS).
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This Review summarizes many of the persistent biological alterations associated with childhood maltreatment including changes in neuroendocrine and neurotransmitter systems and pro-inflammatory cytokines in addition to specific alterations in brain areas associated with mood regulation. Finally, I d...iscuss several candidate gene polymorphisms that interact with childhood maltreatment to modulate vulnerability to major depression and PTSD and epigenetic mechanisms thought to transduce environmental stressors into disease vulnerability.
Neuron Review, vol. 89, March 2, 2016 pp.892-909
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