Operational Guidelines for Planning and Implementation in District Hospitals
Ein Bilderbuch über Hilfe nach traumatischen Erlebnissen für Eltern und Kinder mit Kriegs- und Fluchterfahrung .
Das Trauma-Bilderbuch versucht, ein schweres Thema verständlich darzustellen: Ein Kind erlebt kriegsbedingt eine überwältigende Angstsituation, der „Schatten dieser Angst“ verfo...lgt das Kind noch, wenn die schreckliche Situation bereits eine ferne Vergangenheit geworden sein könnte.
Es kann Kindern, Eltern und deren Unterstützern helfen, die ebenso unsichtbare wie lebenseinschränkende Belastung zu verstehen. Es zeigt auf, was das Kind jetzt braucht: praktische Hilfen im Alltag, tröstende Botschaften der Eltern und evt. den Weg in eine Therapie.
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A guide to Primary Health Care Facility Supervision
DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 103
Volume 1 covers emergency triage assessment and treatment, and acute care for a severely ill or acutely injured patient for approximately the first 24 hours of care. It describes the clinical procedures commonly used in emergency and acute care, and gives a summary of the medicines used and the step...s necessary for infection control.
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Planned and regulated task shifting and task sharing can have a range of benefits. It can ensure a rational optimization of the available health workforce, address health system shortages of specialized health-care professionals, improve equity in access to health care and increase the acceptability... of health services for those receiving them. This guideline provides a range of options for expanding of health worker roles in the provision of safe abortion care, the management of complications of abortion (also known as post-abortion care in some settings and provided as part of emergency obstetric care) and for post-abortion contraception provision.
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A training manual for identifying, assessing, preventing and controlling the risks of pandemics in the workplace. This training manual has been developed for both medical and non-medical personnel who may be called upon to lead emergency response, (eg epidemic outbreak, etc), ensure effective conta...inment whiles work continues and essential goods and services continue to be supplied.
The manual provides insight into some of the local epidemics experienced in Ghana such as Cholera, Cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) and Influenza(s), the causes, signs and symptoms and preventive measures with a view to increasing knowledge among management, staff and their families as well as immediate communities within which they work.
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This is a pre-deployment training, tailored specially to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, offered to WHO personnel, consultants, and key partners. The material covered in modules 1-4 is applicable and useful to frontline response workers, national and international. Only Module 5, which focuses on... operational aspects - the code of conduct for international civil servants and human resources arrangements for WHO deployees, are specifically geared to all internationally recruited personnel and to WHO deployees respectively
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