Shortages of healthcare workers is detrimental to the health of communities, especially children. This paper describes the process of capacity building Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) to deliver integrated preventive and curative package of care of services to manage common childhood illness in h...ard-to-reach communities in Bondo Subcounty, Kenya
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This special issue on Newborn Health in Global Health Action is being launched to share the experience of how to scale up a cost-effective package of newborn care that involves families, community health workers and health facilities. The results of this community randomized trial, the Uganda Newbor...n Study (UNEST), show that home visits in pregnancy and soon after delivery resulted in improved breastfeeding practices, skin-to-skin care immediately after birth, delaying a baby’s first bath, and hygienic care of the baby’s umbilical cord among the poorest households with lowest access to care.
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Como parte de este proceso también decidimos elaborar un documento de reflexiones y recomendaciones sobre Comunicación y Chagas. Este documento que está hoy en nuestras manos es producto del compromiso de muchas personas que, el Día Mundial de Chagas 2020, nos sentimos interpeladas por la necesi...dad de hablar de Comunicación y Chagas.
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Guidance for Asia Pacific National Societies.
This document provides guidance for Asia Pacific National Societies on how to include migrants and displaced people in COVID-19 preparedness and response activities.
This brief document aims to provide a framework for WHO assistance in this area.
World Aids Day, 1. December 2018
Commemorating 30 Years
Accessed: 05.10.2019
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Paper commissioned for the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010, Reaching the marginalized
This statement presents the 2018 definition of skilled health personnel providing care during childbirth (also widely known as a “skilled birth attendants” or SBAs). It results from the recent review and revision of the 2004 joint statement by WHO, FIGO and ICM – Making pregnancy safe: the cri...tical role of the skilled attendant.
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Este documento recoge elementos y buenas prácticas para la protección de la Salud Mental desde la perspectiva del Kokoronokea, o “cuidado del corazón”, desarrollada en Japón; además de la evidencia de la literatura científica actualizada, las orientaciones y recomendaciones de los organism...os internacionales y fundamentalmente aprendizajes recogidos a partir de las diferentes emergencias que ha debido enfrentar nuestro país.
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