Journal of Infectious Diseases and Therapeutics, 2013, 1, 17-24
Guidance on TB and TB/HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care in the workplace
During the past five decades, the incidence of dengue has increased 30-fold. Some 50–100 million new infections are estimated to occur annually in more than 100 endemic countries, with a documented further spread to previously unaffected areas; every year hundreds of thousands of severe cases ari...se, including 20 000 deaths; 264 disability-adjusted life years per million population per year are lost , at an estimated cost for ambulatory and hospitalized cases of US$ 514–1394, often affecting very poor populations. The true numbers are probably far worse, since severe underreporting and misclassification of dengue cases have been documented.
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Guidelines for the Management and Therapy of Urine Incontinence in Children in Indonesia
In the course of implementing a recently funded network of hubs for building capacities in mental health service development, training, and research (RedeAmericas), the peer support workers are being introduced into the mental health workforce in three Latin American countries for the very first tim...e. They will be part of a team, along with community mental health workers, that provides a modified Critical Time Intervention to individuals with severe psychiatric disorders living in the community. This article reviewed the background of this increasingly widespread development, and discussed its merits, as well as potential obstacles within local contexts.
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BMC Pedaitrics. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-12-90
Psychatry & Pediatrics
Chapter I.3
An action research conducted in Bang Shau village Northern Shan State, Myanmar
Policy
July 2012
Working Paper No. 3
Sectors in which Priority Adaptation Projects should be implemented first include:
- 1) Agriculture, Early Warning Systems and Forest (First Priority Level Sectors). This is followed by:
- 2) Public Health and Water Resources (Second Priority Level Sectors);
- 3) Coastal Zone (Thir...d Priority Level Sector); and
- 4) Energy and Industry, and Biodiversity (Fourth Priority Level Sectors).
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- Resilient Markets
- Resilient Agriculture
- Resilient People
- Political Leadership for Resilient Growth