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Infection prevention and control guidance for long-term care facilities in the context of COVID-19: interim guidance, 8 January 2021 (Arabic Version)

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

This document is an update of the guidance published on 21 March 2020 and contains new evidence and guidance.

Government policy interventions to reduce human antimicrobial use: A systematic review and evidence map

Van Katwyk, S. R.; Grimshaw, J. M.; et al (2019) C2

BACKGROUND: Growing political attention to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) offers a rare opportunity for achieving meaningful action. Many governments have developed national AMR action plans, but most have not yet implemented policy interventions to reduce antimicrobial overuse. A systematic evidenc ... e map can support governments in making evidence-informed decisions about implementing programs to reduce AMR, by identifying, describing, and assessing the full range of evaluated government policy options to reduce antimicrobial use in humans. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Seven databases were searched from inception to January 28, 2019, (MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PAIS Index, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Web of Science, and PubMed). We identified studies that (1) clearly described a government policy intervention aimed at reducing human antimicrobial use, and (2) applied a quantitative design to measure the impact. We found 69 unique evaluations of government policy interventions carried out across 4 of the 6 WHO regions. These evaluations included randomized controlled trials (n = 4), non-randomized controlled trials (n = 3), controlled before-and-after designs (n = 7), interrupted time series designs (n = 25), uncontrolled before-and-after designs (n = 18), descriptive designs (n = 10), and cohort designs (n = 2). From these we identified 17 unique policy options for governments to reduce the human use of antimicrobials. Many studies evaluated public awareness campaigns (n = 17) and antimicrobial guidelines (n = 13); however, others offered different policy options such as professional regulation, restricted reimbursement, pay for performance, and prescription requirements. Identifying these policies can inform the development of future policies and evaluations in different contexts and health systems. Limitations of our study include the possible omission of unpublished initiatives, and that policies not evaluated with respect to antimicrobial use have not been captured in this review. CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge this is the first study to provide policy makers with synthesized evidence on specific government policy interventions addressing AMR. In the future, governments should ensure that AMR policy interventions are evaluated using rigorous study designs and that study results are published. more

The Role of Empathy in Health and Social Care Professionals - Review

Moudatsou, M.; A. Stavropoulou, A. Philalidis, et al. Healthcare Journal (2020) CC

Healthcare 2020, 8(1), 26; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8010026 The current article is an integrative and analytical literature review on the concept and meaning of empathy in health and social care professionals. Empathy, i.e., the ability to understand the perso ... more

WHO guidelines on safety monitoring of herbal medicines in pharmacovigilance systems

World Health Organization WHO (2004) C_WHO

Guidelines

Primary Trauma Care Manual - A Manual for Trauma Management in District and Remote Locations
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World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists; Royal College of Anaesthetists (2010) CC

Update: Interim Guidance for Prevention of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus — United States, 2016

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2016) C_CDC

Coaching for the First Embrace. Facilitator's Guide

World Health Organization WHO; Western Pacific Region (2016) C_WHO

Early Essential Newborn Care (EENC) Module 2.

Guidelines for Eye Care

Ministry of Health Uganda (2016) C1

Malawi National Guidelines for Kangaroo Mother Care

Ministry of Health, Malawi (2009) C1

Guidelines

National Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis Control in Georgia 2016-2020

CCM Georgia (2015) C1

Standard Operating Procedures - Bacteriology

Indian Council of Medical Research (2015) C1

Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance and Research Network | This manual describes well accepted methods to carry out drug susceptibility testing on important gram positive and gram negative clinically relevant bacteria. Methods of specimen collection, transport, culture, anti-microbial drug suscept ... more

World Health Organization-World Federation of Societiesof Anaesthesiologists (WHO-WFSA) International Standardsfor a Safe Practice of Anesthesia

A.W. Gelb, W.W. Morriss, W. Johnson, et al. (2018) CC

Can J Anesth/J Can Anesth June 2018, Volume 65, Issue 6, pp 698–708

Improving Cultural Competence

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration SAMHASA (2014) C2

Scaling-up treatment of depression and anxiety: a global return on investment analysis

Dan Chisholm, Kim Sweeny, Peter Sheehan, et al. (2016) CC

Lancet Psychiatry 2016;3: 415–24

Lymphatic filariasis: managing morbidity and preventing disability: an aide-mémoire for national programme managers, second edition
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World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Lymphatic filariasis: managing morbidity and preventing disability: an aide-mémoire for national programme managers, second edition: web annex A: protocol for evaluating minimum package of care of morbidity management and disability prevention for lymphoedema management in designated health facilit ... more

Ottawa Charter

World Health Organization WHO (1986) C_WHO

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. To reach a state of complete physical mental and social wellbeing, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the e ... more

Botswana National Integration Guidelines

United Nations Population Fund UNFPA (2022) C1

This Guideline, the first for the country, draws from national health sector reforms and integration agenda as outlined in the key national strategic documents. The Guide applies lessons learnt from the SRH/HIV Linkages project and its scale-up; other national experiences and from regional and globa ... more

Sphere for Monitoring and Evaluation
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The Sphere Project (2015) CC

Sphere Unpacked