Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness (IMAI)
July 2008
PLoS ONE 11(1): e0144662. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144662
Health Systems in Transition. Vol. 5 No.3 2015
A supplement to The State of the World’s Children Report 2009
Nigeria is committed to end preventable newborn deaths, making life-saving interventions available to all mothers and babies who need them.
This book teaches healthcare professionals the basics of EKG interpretation and is available as a creative commons resource.
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What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Need to Do
A handy desk reference tool for primary level health workers. The Adolescent Job Aid is a handy desk reference tool for health workers (trained and registered doctors, nurses and clinical officers) who provide services to children, adolescents and adults. It aims to help these health workers respond... to their adolescent patients more effectively and with greater sensitivity. It provides precise, step-by-step guidance on how to deal with adolescents when they present with a problem or a concern about their health or development
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Recently, a renewed interest in large-scale community health worker (CHW) programs has been seen globally. This renewal provides an opportune moment to take stock of issues and challenges such programs face and what can be done to make them as effective as possible. With this in mind, this manual is... intended to be used a practical guide for policymakers and program
managers wishing to develop or strengthen a CHW program, drawing lessons from other countries that have implemented CHW programs at-scale. Throughout, we discuss major policy and programmatic issues that decision-makers and planners need to consider when designing, implementing, scaling up or strengthening a national-level CHW program. We offer an overview
of specific challenges CHW programs face, country lessons, tools, and other resources that may be helpful, while incorporating relevant programmatic examples as much as possible.
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This document presents an evidence-informed Checklist for implementing rural pathways to train and support the rural
health workforce in low and middle income countries (LMIC). Rural areas are the most underserviced around the world.