Natural disasters often increase morbidity and mortality rates. Taking appropriate measures to maintain environmental health helps to reduce or eliminate the risks of preventable disease and death. Such measures contribute not only to the health of individuals in and near disaster-stricken areas, bu...t they also contribute to decreasing the high costs of providing emergency health services in the aftermath of disaster.
This document is divided into several parts. The first section primarily addresses the effects of natural disasters on environmental health conditions and services. In the second section, environmental health measures are described that should be undertaken in each of three time frames: the predisaster, disaster, and postdisaster periods.
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Policy and practice for maturity-aligned engagement of children in decisions about HIV-related medical and social services and management of confidential information
Kipling Beardsley, Health Policy Plus
Accessed: 26.10.2019
Chapter 9: Public health guide for emergencies
A Guide For Multicentre Trials in High-Burden Countries
A Guide to the Integration of Leprosy Services within the General Health System
with recommended essential medicines for common diseases in patients in Stockholm County Council (Healthcare Region), Sweden
Disability Inclusion | Published by Child Development & Rights and Sustainable Health on behalf of World Vision International.
A guide to promote health systems strengthening to achieve universal health coverage.
The mandate of the National Tuberculosis Control Programme is to provide leadership and stewardship to accelerate intense and coordinated efforts to reduce the adult TB burden of 290 per 100,000 population recently established in the 2013 National TB Prevalence Survey. Other key challenges are low T...B case notification, unacceptably high TB death rates, low antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage among TB/HIV patients and low drug-resistant notification and treatment.
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Human Resources for Health Observer Series No. 16
A manual for people working in environments contaminated by landmines and other explosive hazards including improvised explosive devices.
Background document to the 2018 joint statement by WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, ICM, ICN, FIGO and IPA: definition of skilled health personnel providing care during childbirth
GUIDELINES FOR AWWs/ASHAs/ANMs/PRIs
Antimicrobial resistance is a global crisis that threatens a century of progress in health and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. There is no time to wait. Unless the world acts urgently, antimicrobial resistance will have disastrous impact within a generation.
A guide for practical implementation in adult and pediatric emergency department and urgent care settings
This manual addresses all the issues. It focus on the cycle of microbes, antibiotics, vaccination, AMR,
infection prevention and control. It will support nurses on better action and also on communication towards
their patients and families.
This document provides guidance on how to implement contact screening and chemoprophylaxis with single-dose rifampicin. The contents are logically ordered: counselling and obtaining consent, identification and listing of index case, listing of contacts, tracing of contacts, screening of contacts, ad...ministration of prophylactic drugs. Managerial aspects to undertake contact screeninig and chemoprophylaxis are also elaborated, including planning , training , supervision and drug management.
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UNICEF Annual Report 2017 - Burkina Faso
- Healthcare policy for children
- Food insecurity
- Community health strategy
- National child protection system
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Journal of Cancer Education
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-020-01935-7
Recommendations for step-wise implementation