Comprehensive public health action on population ageing is urgently needed. This will require fundamental shifts, not just in the things we do, but in how we think about ageing itself. The World report on ageing and health outlines a framework for action to foster Healthy Ageing built around the new... concept of functional ability. Making these investments will have valuable social and economic returns, both in terms of health and wellbeing of older people and in enabling their on-going participation in society
Executive summaries : Arabic; Chinese; English; French; German; Japanese; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish
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Patient information on depression. English version. Also available in: Arabic, French, German, Russian, Turkish, Spanish. For other versions go to: http://www.patienten-information.de/kurzinformationen/psychische-erkrankungen/depression
Eine Arbeitshilfe für Multiplikatoren. Fremdsprachige Informationsmaterialien können die Vermittlung von Informationen erleichtern. Durch diese aktuelle Zusammenstellung liegt eine Arbeitshilfe vor, die den Zugang zu Informationsmaterialien aus dem Bereich
der Gesundheit von Mutter und Kind erle...ichtert. Viele Veröffentlichungen stammen aus NRW. Einige Themenbereiche wurden durch Informationen, die in
anderen Bundesländern oder auf Bundesebene erstellt wurden, ergänzt. Dies gilt in besonderer Weise für die
Bereiche der „Internetportale“ und der "Gesundheitswegweiser“, da es dort gute Beispiele für übertragbare Lösungsansätze gibt.
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This 277 page pocketbook is a summary of the emergency components of basic neonatal and older infants hospital care from our 900 page textbook “International Maternal & Childhealth Care. A practical manual for hospitals worldwide”.
If you work in a hospital in a low income country - providin...g free care - you are probably intitled to FREE copies of these books. MCAI will send them to you, all you have to do is to read our Flyer and fill in the request form.
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Report Shows Egregious Attacks on Health Care by Syrian Government Have Devastated Aleppo’s Medical System
In many countries, people with disabilities still face multiple barriers when accesing health services. This case study details the challenges encountered on the way, the lessons drawn from it and achievements to date. You could also download a long version: http://health.bmz.de/good-practices/GHPC/...Every_person_counts/Every_person_counts_long_ENG.pdf
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The Human Resources for Health policy (HRH) will provide guidelines and the direction toward strengthening the planning, management, utilization and monitoring of health sector human resources; not forgetting responses to the contemporary challenges and developments in the sector including the mobil...ity and motivation of human resources; and advancements in technology.
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