The new five-year agenda of WHO in Africa, The Africa Health Transformation Programme, 2015–2020: a vision for universal health coverage, is the strategic framework that will guide WHO’s contribution to the emerging sustainable development platform in Africa. It articulates a vision for health a...nd development that aims to address the unacceptable inequalities and inequities that have kept our region lagging far behind others in terms of health indices and enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of life.
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Disease Control Priorities –3rdEdition, Volume 2.
This book focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age 5. It also covers maternal mortality, morbidity, stillbirth, and ...influences to pregnancy and pre-pregnancy. It also includes the transition to older childhood, in particular, the overlap and commonality with the child development volume
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This manual focuses on the availability and clinical use of oxygen therapy in children in health facilities by providing the practical aspects for health workers, biomedical engineers, and administrators. It addresses the need for appropriate detection of hypoxaemia, use of pulse oximetry, clinical ...use of oxygen and delivery systems and monitoring of patients on oxygen therapy.
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Guía de prácticas esenciales. Segunda edición
The Compendium brings together for the first time key consensus-based policy recommendations and guidance to improve the delivery of proven interventions to women and children. The user-friendly format incorporates icons and tabs to present key health-related policies that support the delivery of es...sential RMNCH interventions. It also includes multisectoral policies on the economic, social, technological and environmental factors that influence health outcomes and service delivery. The Policy Compendium is a companion document to the Essential Interventions, Commodities and Guidelines for RMNCH.
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Este livro em formato prático é dirigido a médicos, enfermeiros e demais profissionais de saúde responsáveis pelo cuidado de crianças no primeiro nível de referência em países em desenvolvimento. Apresenta diretrizes clínicas atualizadas que se baseiam na revisão da evidência publicada d...isponível realizada por especialistas, tanto para o cuidado hospitalar como ambulatorial em hospitais pequenos, com serviços básicos de laboratório e medicamentos essenciais e de baixo custo disponíveis. Em alguns contextos, essas diretrizes podem ser utilizadas em centros de saúde maiores (postos de saúde de referência com sala de emergência), nos quais um pequeno número de crianças doentes podem ser internadas para cuidados mais intensivo
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6th edition, The NLEM 2021 contains 398 drugs molecules in different therapeutic categories.
Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2018, 3, 72;
The study identified some key determinants of untimely and incomplete childhood vaccinations in the context of Bangladesh. The findings will contribute to the improvement of age-specific vaccination and support policy makers in taking the necessary control ...strategies with respect to delayed and early vaccination in Bangladesh.
https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed3030072
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