Problem-solving in the clinic, Online course
A health professional's guide to pregnancy and childbirth. Online learning programme
A Learning Programme for Professionals
This manual was developed based on the recommendations of a global technical consultation on child health in humanitarian emergencies co-organized by WHO and UNICEF at the end of 2003. WHO in collaboration with the Centre for Refugee and Disaster Response, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Ho...pkins University undertook a systematic review in 2004. It demonstrated that existing guidelines, including The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI), do not cover all priority conditions in emergencies. The objective of this manual is to provide comprehensive guidance on child care in emergencies.
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Handbook on pregnancy, childbirth, childhood illnesses, child development and the care of children. The handbook, Facts for Life, provides vital messages and information for mothers, fathers, other family members and caregivers and communities to use in changing behaviours and practices that can sav...e and protect the lives of children and help them grow and develop to their full potential.
This version of Facts for Life builds on the three previous editions, which have been helping families and communities around the world since 1989. Newborn Health has been added to the Safe Motherhood chapter, giving attention to child survival from the first stage of life. A new chapter, Child Protection, has been included, focusing attention on the actions needed to ensure children grow up in protective environments.
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The first clinical series is on newborn care and will consist of brief vignettes that “bring to life” internationally accepted newborn care guidelines.
These standards for the quality of paediatric care in health facilities form part of normative
guidance for improving the quality of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health care.
In view of the importance of the continuum of both the life-course and service delivery (1),
these standards bu...ild on the Standards for improving the quality of maternal and newborn
care in health facilities (2), during labour, childbirth and the early postnatal period.
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Somali version of Neonatal Resuscitation.
Filimkan wuxuu ku tusi doonaa sida hawada loogu furo ilmaha nuujada ah. Wuxuu salka ku hayaa buugga hagaha ay diyaariyeen Guddiga Hawo siinta ee UK waxaanu xoogga saarayaa tababar ku qaadashada asaasiga ah ee soo socd: Dhaxan ka ilaalinta ilmaha, Qiimeynta ...ilmaha, Furida af-sanqoodka iyo neefsiga iyo laab cadaadinta.
This film shows how to deliver and care for a newborn baby and how to resuscitate a newborn that is not breathing using a bag and mask. This film is for use in health worker training
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Swahili Translation of Neonatal Resuscitation for skilled healthworkers showing bag and mask resuscitation.
A training package for building capacity of healthcare teams in health facilities for continous quality improvement of maternal and newborn healthcare. The focus is on the care of mothers and newborns at the time of child birth since a large proportion of maternal deaths, newborn deaths and stillbir...ths happen around that time.
The 4-Step POCQI (Point of care Quality Improvement) package includes Coaching manual and Learner manual that present a demystified and simple model of quality improvement at the level of health facilities using local data to identify quality gaps, analyse underlying causes and improve health care practices in their own specific context without much additional resources.
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WHO-SEARO in partnership with WHOCC AIIMS, UNICEF, UNFPA and USAID has prepared a training package for building capacity of healthcare teams in health facilities for continous quality improvement of maternal and newborn healthcare. The focus is on the care of mothers and newborns at the time of chil...d birth since a large proportion of maternal deaths, newborn deaths and stillbirths happen around that time.
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Four simple steps to practice quality improvement at health facility level
Les soins de la mère kangourou sont une méthode de soins des enfants prématurés. Cette méthode consiste à porter les nourrissons, généralement par la mère, avec un contact peau à peau. Ce guide est destiné aux professionnels de la santé responsables des soins aux nourrissons de faible po...ids de naissance et aux prématurés. Conçu pour être adapté aux conditions locales, il fournit des conseils sur la manière d'organiser les services au niveau de la référence et sur ce qui est nécessaire pour fournir des soins efficaces à la mère kangourou. Le guide comprend des conseils pratiques sur le moment et la manière d'appliquer au mieux la méthode de soins par la mère kangourou.
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This is the first part of a five-part package that provides guidance on caregiver skills training for families of children aged 2–9 years with developmental delays or disabilities.
The Caregiver skills training for families of children with developmental delays or disabilities (CST) aims to pro...vide caregivers with skills that they can use at home to improve their child’s engagement in activities and communication, and to promote positive behaviour and skills for daily living.
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The guide for integration of perinatal mental health in maternal and child health services outlines an evidence-informed approach describing how program managers, health service administrators and policy-makers responsible of planning and managing maternal and child health services can develop and s...ustain high-quality, integrated mental health services for women during the perinatal period.
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This film shows how to deliver and care for a newborn baby and how to resuscitate a newborn that is not breathing using a bag and mask.
This film is for use in health worker training
Ce film montre comment accoucher et prendre soin d'un nouveau-né et comment réanimer un nouveau-né qui ne respire pas à l'aide d'un sac et d'un masque.
Ce film est destiné à la formation des agents de santé
protocol if child has severe acute malnutrition (SAM), otherwise use standard protocols.
SAM criteria: Mid-upper arm circumference <11.5 cm (only for 6-59 months) OR weight for height z score < -3 OR bilteral pitting oedema