This guideline examines the evidence and makes recommendations and remarks on the implementation of some of the details of breastfeeding counselling, such as frequency, timing, mode and provider of breastfeeding counselling, to improve breastfeeding practices. The objective of this guideline is to p...rovide global, evidence-informed recommendations on breastfeeding counselling, as a public health intervention, to improve breastfeeding practices among pregnant women and mothers who intend to breastfeed, or are currently breastfeeding, and their infants and children
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El informe Indicadores básicos 2019: tendencias de la salud en las Américas comienza con un panorama demográfico de la Región que muestra los cambios que han ocurrido a lo largo de los últimos 25 años. Estos indicadores demográficos proporcionan un contexto útil para comprender mejor las car...acterísticas de la población y el efecto que tienen en la salud. Los gráficos están acompañados de breves descripciones en las que se destaca la información más importante.
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Gac Méd Caracas 2018;126(1):52-78
Responsibilidad Social Institucional (RSI)
Recomendaciones para un enfoque de salud pública
Segunda edición 2016
Urge una respuesta regional ante una crisis migratoria sin precedentes
This report found that many people with disabilities enter institutions as children and remain there for their entire lives. Most of these institutions visited by Human Rights Watch researchers did not provide for more than people’s basic needs, such as food and hygiene, with scarce contact with t...he community and little opportunity for personal development. Some residents are tied to their beds and given sedatives to control them.
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This report details the challenges many women and girls with disabilities face throughout the justice process: reporting abuse to the police, obtaining appropriate medical care, having complaints investigated, navigating the court system, and getting adequate compensation.
A WHO-ITU Standard.
Nearly 50% of people aged 12-35 years – or 1.1 billion young people – are at risk of hearing loss due to prolonged and excessive exposure to loud sounds, including music they listen to through personal audio devices. Ahead of World Hearing Day (3 March), the World Health Org...anization (WHO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have issued a new international standard for the manufacture and use of these devices, which include smartphones and audio players, to make them safer for listening
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Experiences from Indonesia, Kenya, Uganda and Ukraine
This report documents scores of serious abuses committed against talibé children by Quranic teachers or their assistants in 2017 and 2018, including deaths, beatings, sexual abuse, chaining and imprisonment, and numerous forms of neglect and endangerment. The abuses took place in at least eight of ...Senegal’s 14 administrative regions (Dakar, Diourbel, Fatick, Kaolack, Louga, Saint-Louis, Tambacounda, and Thiès); a Human Rights Watch researcher visited four of these regions: Dakar, Diourbel, Louga and Saint-Louis.
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Módulo 12
Adolescentes y Adultos de Jóvenes
Julio del 2018
El presente compendio normativo agrupa las principales normas que enmarcan las intervenciones del sector salud y establecen los mecanismos y procedimientos referidos a la coordinación entre el sector público y privado vinculados a la prevención y control de la tuberculosis, orientados a garantiza...r los derechos y deberes fundamentales de las personas afectadas por la tuberculosis.
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O Ministério da Saúde atualiza o Diagnosticar para Cuidar com o PLANO NACIONAL DE EXPANSÃO DA TESTAGEM PARA COVID-19 (PNE-Teste) que tem a finalidade de expandir o diagnóstico da covid-19 por meio do teste rápido de antígeno (TR-AG), para uso em indivíduos sintomáticos e assintomáticos, par...a monitorar a situação epidemiológica e direcionar os esforços desta Pasta ministerial na contenção da pandemia no território nacional.
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La intención de este documento es describir el perfil y la tendencia de morbilidad y
mortalidad en el país. Es decir quiénes, dónde y de qué se enferma o muere la población en Argentina, así como también mostrar las condiciones de vida en las que se vive y cuáles son los recursos con los ...que cuenta el sistema de salud para dar respuesta a las necesidades.
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Actualmente, en el mundo, el cáncer produce millones de muertes al año, generando altos costos económicos y sociales, tanto por los valores asignados al tratamiento, como por el compromiso que genera en la productividad laboral de las personas directamente afectadas y de su entorno familiar y/o c...uidadores.
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