Literature Review on TB Control in Prisons 11/18/2008
In this guideline, natural ventilation is considered
among one the effective measures to control infections in health care. This guideline provides
a design and operation guide for hospital planners, engineers, architects and infection control
personnel. The recommendations in this guidelin...e followed a systematic
review of the literature on the association of ventilation and disease transmission, as well
as effective natural ventilation solutions for infection control.
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2nd edition. This new edition provides policy-makers, programme managers and health-service providers with the latest evidence-based guidance on clinical care. It includes information on how to establish and strengthen services, and outlines a human-rights-based approach to laws and policies on safe..., comprehensive abortion care. This guidelines is available in English; French, Spanish; Japanese; Russian; Portuguese; Romanian and Ukrainian
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Front. Hum. Neurosci., 25 September 2009 | https://doi.org/10.3389/neuro.09.026.2009
Introduction
Capter A.1
Ethics and international child and adolescent psychiatry
Inhaltsangabe: Vorwort; Trauma bei Kindern und JugendlichenTraumatisierte Kinder im pädagogischen; Sekundäre Traumatisierung des Helfer_innensystems – Der Versuch
zu verstehen und ein Pläydoyer für Enttabuisierung und Prävention; Trauma und Traumafolgen im Kindesalter; Zusammenarbeit mit E...ltern traumatisierter Kinder; „Traumasog“ – oder wie halte ich meine Arbeit eigentlich (noch) aus?; Pädagogisches Arbeiten mit traumatisierten Kindern; Pädagogisches Arbeiten mit traumatisierten Kindern; Traumata zwischengeschlechtlich geborener Kinder und co-traumatische Belastungen für deren Familien; Sexüll übergriffige Buben und Burschen: eigene Traumatisierung ein Thema?; Gefühle unter dem Mikroskop und im Hirnscanner
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Discussion Paper "Mental health, poverty and development", July 2009
10 years after the UN general assembly special session on drugs
BMC Pedaitrics. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-12-90
Paying for performance (P4P) provides financial incentives for providers to increase the use and quality of care. P4P can affect health care by providing incentives for providers to put more effort into specific activities, and by increasing the amount of resources available to finance the delivery ...of services. This paper evaluates the impact of P4P on the use and quality of prenatal, institutional delivery, and child preventive care using data produced from a prospective quasi-experimental evaluation nested into the national rollout of P4P in Rwanda. Treatment facilities were enrolled in the P4P scheme in 2006 and comparison facilities were enrolled two years later. The incentive effect is isolated from the resource effect by increasing comparison facilities’ input-based budgets by the average P4P payments to the treatment facilities. The data were collected from 166 facilities and a random sample of 2158 households. P4P had a large and significant positive impact on institutional deliveries and preventive care visits by young children, and improved quality of prenatal care. The authors find no effect on the number of prenatal care visits or on immunization rates. P4P had the greatest effect on those services that had the highest payment rates and needed the lowest provider effort. P4P financial performance incentives can improve both the use of and the quality of health services. Because the analysis isolates the incentive effect from the resource effect in P4P, the results indicate that an equal amount of financial resources without the incentives would not have achieved the same gain in outcomes.
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The revised package of BFHI materials includes five sections: 1. Background and Implementation, 2. Strengthening and Sustaining the BFHI: A course for decision-makers, 3. Breastfeeding Promotion and Support in a Baby-friendly Hospital: a 20-hour course for maternity staff, 4. Hospital Self-Appraisal... and Monitoring, and 5. External Assessment and Reassessment. Sections 1 to 4 are widely available while section 5 is for limited distribution.
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The 6th edition of the essential medicine list has been developed based on the 5th edition list of essential medicines, the National Standard Treatment Guidelines and Protocols 2013, list of laboratory commodities and List of Consumables used in public health facilities.
Humanitarian emergencies result in a breakdown of critical health-care services and often make vulnerable communities dependent on external agencies for care. In resource-constrained settings, this may occur against a backdrop of extreme poverty, malnutrition, insecurity, low literacy and poor infra...structure. Under these circumstances, providing food, water and shelter and limiting communicable disease outbreaks become primary concerns. Where effective and safe vaccines are available to mitigate the risk of disease outbreaks, their potential deployment is a key consideration in meeting emergency health needs. Ethical considerations are crucial when deciding on vaccine deployment. Allocation of vaccines in short supply, target groups, delivery strategies, surveillance and research during acute humanitarian emergencies all involve ethical considerations that often arise from the tension between individual and common good. The authors lay out the ethical issues that policy-makers need to bear in mind when considering the deployment of mass vaccination during humanitarian emergencies, including beneficence (duty of care and the rule of rescue), non-maleficence, autonomy and consent, and distributive and procedural justice
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special education, culture, psychology, education, policy
Identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries that must not be transgressed could help prevent human
activities from causing unacceptable environmental changes.
nature Vol 461|24 September 2009