The purpose of this manual is to provide a resource for training to increase understanding of Health in  All  Policies  (HiAP)  by  health  and  other  professionals.  It  is  anticipated  that  the  material  in  this  manual will form the basis of two- or three-day workshops, which will: 
•  Bu...ild capacity to promote, implement and evaluate HiAP;
 •  Encourage engagement and collaboration across sectors; 
•  Facilitate the exchange of experiences and lessons learned; 
•  Promote regional and global collaboration on HiAP; and 
•  Promote dissemination of skills to develop training courses for trainers.
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                                                                Modern  healthcare  has  given  rise  to  extremely  complex  and  multifaceted   ethical   dilemmas.   All   too   often   physicians   are   unprepared  to  manage  these  competently.    This  publication  is  specifically  structured  to  reinforce  and  strengthen  the  ethical mindset and prac...tice of physicians and provide tools to find ethical solutions  to  these  dilemmas.  It  is  not  a  list  of  “rights  and  wrongs”  but an attempt to sensitise the conscience of the physician, which is the basis for all sound and ethical decision-making. To this end, you will find several case studies in the book, which are intended to foster individual ethical reflection as well as discussion within team settings.
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                                                                The Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions Training Guide: Community Workers strengthens the capacity of community workers to deliver and promote the essential nutrition and hygiene actions. It introduces technical content within hands-on sessions to practice counseling and negoti...ation, using role plays and field practice. It guides community workers in understanding why and how to integrate messages on nutrition and hygiene into their different program platforms using a life cycle approach to deliver the right message to right person at the right time.
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                                                                Everyday experience shows that there is a commonality between spirituality and medical practice. A text message I received from a friend recently read, "Please pray for me. I've been getting a mysterious headache for some days now. I will be seeing the doctor today." This clearly speaks of a relatio...nship: asking for prayer so as to be relieved of a "mysterious headache", yet going to see a doctor whose job is not to cure mysterious headaches. Even though both areas of human experience have their peculiar and largely unrelated methodologies, this paper argues that any extreme separation of the two is injurious to the teleology of both disciplines in relation to human well-being, which forms the core of spirituality and medicine.
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                                                                This training guide applies a participatory approach, reflecting the considerable evidence that adults learn best by practicing and reflecting on their experiences. It thus emphasizes exercises to improve skills in counseling that support clients to adopt optimal nutrition practices. Women’s nutri...tion and infant feeding in the context of HIV are also addressed. Guidelines to link the prevention of malnutrition with treatment via the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition are also included. It can also be conducted with nutrition managers to equip them to provide supportive supervision to health and community workers.
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                                                                Primary care represents the first level of personal health care services in the community, which ensures accessible, continual,
whole-person care for health needs throughout an individual’s lifespan. Primary care professionals work with patients and
their families to address their immediate and ...long-term health needs and not just for a set of specific diseases with an
approach that addresses the broader determinants of health and the interrelated aspects that influence people’s physical,
mental, and social well-being.
Nurses have a key role to play in primary care in expanding, connecting and coordinating care. Through their training and
work, they are well placed and have been shown to provide safe and effective care in disease prevention, diagnosis,
treatment, management and rehabilitation. The purpose of this document is to provide guidance and inspiration for
policymakers, instructors, managers and clinicians
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                                                                The overall aim of the study was to understand the acceptability and usefulness of PHC clinical placements for nursing and midwifery students.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Progress in Palliative Care, 20:2, 63-65, DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1179/0969926012Z.00000000028
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Nurses' perceptions about providing spiritual care
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Nurses have four fundamental responsibilities: to promote health, to prevent illness, to restore health and to alleviate suffering. The need for nursing is universal. Inherent in nursing is a respect for human rights, including cultural rights, the right to life and choice, to dignity and to be trea...ted with respect. Nursing care is respectful of and unrestricted by considerations of age, colour, creed, culture,disability or illness, gender, sexual orientation, nationality,politics, race or social status.Nurses render health services to the individual, the family and the community and coordinate their services with those of related groups.
The ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses has four principal elements that outline the standards of ethical conduct.
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                                                                With hundreds of illustrations and clear instructions, A Community Guide to Environmental Health helps health promoters, development workers, environmental activists, and community leaders take charge of their environmental health in villages and cities alike. Also available in Arabic, Spanish, Chin...ese, Portuguese, Turkish, Dari, Malayan, Mongolian and Russian.
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                                                                Indian J Palliat Care. 2011 Jan; 17(Suppl): S39–S41.
doi: 10.4103/0973-1075.76241
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                An introduction to why why more and more nurses are becoming interested in environmental health and incorporating it into their nursing practice
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Nurses    at    present    are    facing    various    personal,    interpersonal, professional, institutional and socio cultural challenges in their professional performance. Dealing with these  issues  may  not  be  always  clear.  The  lack  of  one  correct approach in addressing different conte...xtual issues may   lead   to   ethical   dilemmas.      Responding   to   this   complex      issues      demand      nurses      to      acquire      comprehensive  ethical  knowledge  and  skills  in  various  decision  making  process.  Although  teaching  materials  have  a  pivotal  role  to  play  in  helping  nurses  in  this  endeavor, comprehensive books inclusive of all the topics in  the  curriculum  is  scarce  in  Ethiopia.  Therefore,  this  lecture  note  is  prepared  to  overcome  the  acute  shortage  of  reference  materials  reflecting  the  national  context  and  be  used  as  a  teaching  material  for  nurses  at  various  levels.    The  lecture  note  is  divided  in  to  five  units.  Unit  one  of  this  lecture  note  deals  with  the  history  of  nursing,  unit two about philosophy of nursing, unit three health and illness,  unit  four  Ethico-legal  aspects  to  nursing,  and  unit  five   communication   and   interpersonal   relationships   in   nursing,
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                                                                A guide to management in Primary Health Care. A practical, instructive training guide that has proven its capacity to improve the managerial skills of middle-level health workers responsible for the management or supervision of health services. Presented as an activity-centered working guide, the bo...ok uses numerous questionnaires, exercises, practical examples, illustrations, charts, and sample forms to help readers relate advice and suggestions to their own daily problems. Emphasis is placed on ways to improve the management of health services provided by full-time, qualified staff. The guide features 18 chapters presented in four main parts, any one of which can be studied separately or as part of the whole, according to individual learning needs.
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                                                                A guide to management in Primary Health Care. A practical, instructive training guide that has proven its capacity to improve the managerial skills of middle-level health workers responsible for the management or supervision of health services. Presented as an activity-centered working guide, the bo...ok uses numerous questionnaires, exercises, practical examples, illustrations, charts, and sample forms to help readers relate advice and suggestions to their own daily problems. Emphasis is placed on ways to improve the management of health services provided by full-time, qualified staff. The guide features 18 chapters presented in four main parts, any one of which can be studied separately or as part of the whole, according to individual learning needs.
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                                                                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...nvironment. Health is, therefore, seen as a resource fo everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities. Therefore, health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond healthy lifestyles to wellbeing.
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