This section deals with implementing and improving infection control practices in hospitals, health centres and other health services in the outbreak area. It explains the need for, and implementation of, effective triage procedures, and basic requirements for infection control and supporting activi...ties. Further guidance can be found in the MSF Infection Control Guideline
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Prices people pay for medicines.
This paper aims to explore the conditions needed for sustainable community based rehabilitation (CBR) programmes for persons with disabilities in Vietnam, and to identify the conditions and opportunities missing at present for the implementation of such programmes.
One key aim of tuberculosis (TB) prevention and care is to render them more people-centred, which means further boosting and improving ambulatory care models across the countries of Eastern Europe and central Asia. This note is intended to remind interested parties of the evidence that shows that am...bulatory care is both feasible and safe
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Цель: анализ уровня тревожности и тяжести депрессии у больных рассеянным склерозом. Материал и методы. Чтобы определить уровень депрессии и тревожности у больных ...С в зависимости от пола, возраста, течения, длительности заболевания, была отобрана группа пациентов с достоверным диагнозом Рассеянный склероз по критериям Ч.Позера, состоящая из 79 человек с длительностью заболевания более двух лет. Ис-пользовалась специально разработанная анкета, которая включала в себя таблицы для оценки жалоб, данных анамнеза, неврологического статуса больного и стандартные опросники (тест на тревожность Тейлора, шкала депрессии НИИ психоневрологии им.Бехтерева, индекс общего психологического благополучия). Результа-ты. Такие аффективные расстройства, как тревожность, депрессия, достаточно часто встречаются у больных рассеянным склерозом, однако выражены они в группах больных, получающих и неполучающих ПИТРС, по-разному. Заключение. Следует рекомендовать практическим неврологам при лечении больных рассеянным склерозом обращать внимание на наличие или отсутствие у них определенного спектра психических наруше-ний, в первую очередь тревожно-депрессивного синдрома, который нуждается в персонифицированной меди-каментозной и немедикаментозной коррекции.
http://www.ssmj.ru/system/files/201202_484-488.pdf
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Sexual and reproductive health is health issues that have to do with your body, sex, relationships, and having and giving birth to children. This includes having the information you need to be able to make your own decisions about your body, when to have sex, and whether or not to become a parent. T...his also includes having access to family planning methods—or contraceptives—
when you do not want to become pregnant. The acronym SRH is often used as a way to refer to sexual and reproductive health.
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The paper provides the rationale for these recommendations, which are based on analyses of data from the TRACT trial.
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar is at a historic moment, with a new civilian government assuming power in 2016. The country graduated to lower-middle-income status in 2015, and has made significant progress in reducing poverty, improving food security and addressing malnutrition.
The remai...ning challenges to food and nutrition security and achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2 targets include continued population displacements resulting from conflict, vulnerability to extreme weather events, poverty, limited social protection coverage, high malnutrition and persistent gender inequalities.
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Rapporto ISS COVID-19, n. 4/2020
Gruppo di Lavoro ISS Prevenzione e Controllo delle Infezioni
aggiornato al 16 marzo 2020
A consolidated set of reproductive health kits for use by humanitarian agencies. These kits are intended to speed up the provision of appropriate reproductive health services in emergency and refugee situations.
The CBDRR Manual is a practical ‘how-to’ guide on community-based disaster risk reduction for government and non-government agencies in Lao PDR. It is a commonly agreed document to be referred to by agencies working on CBDRR in Lao PDR. It provides guidance and support for systematic implementat...ion of CBDRR programs by explaining each of the steps as well as tools used.
The manual will also support the Government of Lao PDR (GoL) to monitor CBDRR activities, oversee progress of activities implemented by different actors and locations, provide necessary support on CBDRR technical knowledge as well as provide a reference point for replication of initiatives for local government and implementing agencies.
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This document summarizes the findings of the STEPS survey in Ukraine and compares them with the results of STEPS surveys carried out in other countries in the WHO European Region, as well as with selected other surveys in Ukraine. The survey is designed to be repeated approximately every five years ...in each country to allow assessment of trends.
The study revealed very high prevalence of NCDs and their behavioural and biological risk factors in Ukraine. Data on behavioural risk factors include tobacco and alcohol use, diet, and physical activity. Data on biological risk factors include overweight and obesity, blood pressure, blood glucose, and blood lipid levels.
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How the Greek reception system is failing to protect the most vulnerable people seeking asylum.
Greece and its EU partners are failing pregnant women, unaccompanied children, victims of torture or sexual violence and other vulnerable people who seek protection in Europe. These people are being put ...at risk by flawed processes and chronic understaffing in EU ‘hotspot’ camps on the Greek islands. They do not receive adequate support from the authorities that are legally responsible for protecting them and are being abandoned in overcrowded camps in squalid conditions. Many people live in unheated tents and do not have sufficient access to washing facilities and toilets, and winter is only making their situation worse
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