Interagency Guidelines - This revised Interagency List of Essential Medicines for Reproductive Health presents
the current international consensus on rational selection of essential reproductive health medicines. The list is intended to support decisions regarding the production, quality assurance..., national procurement and reimbursement schemes of these medicines.
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Promoting and protecting health is essential to human welfare and sustained economic and social development. This was recognized more than 30 years ago by the Alma-Ata Declaration signatories, who noted that Health for All would contribute
both to a better quality of life and also to global peace a...nd security
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Organizing and Delivering High Quality Care for Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases in the Americas
Towards attaining the highest standard Health.
Tuberculosis (TB) is, and should be, a curable disease; however, each year significant numbers of patients acquire or develop drug-resistant TB, which has a much lower cure rate. Patients with drug-resistant TB have a high prevalence of symptoms; hence, staff caring for these patients should h...ave some familiarity with palliative care, so that general palliative care principles are available to all patients. The timely identification, and addressing, of adverse events occurring during the treatment course is considered as general palliative care for those receiving curative treatment. This publication summarizes the general palliative care approach, which is recommended for use in settings and services that occasionally treat palliative care patients, but do not provide palliative care as the main focus of their work. The review focuses on 18 high TB priority countries of the WHO European Region.
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The Council was established in late 2020 by Dr Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus (Director-General, WHO) to provide new economic thinking – reassessing how health and wellbeing are valued, produced and distributed across the economy. An all-female group of 10 distinguished economists and area experts, t...he Council has focused on reimagining how to put Health for All at the heart of government decision-making and private sector collaboration at regional, national and international levels.
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Final Report
Submitted to: Unicef, New Delhi
ORG Centre for Social Research (A Division of AC Nielsen ORG- MARG Private Limited)
Accessed: 30.10.2019
Le suivi évaluation des interventions en santé passe par une meilleure lisibilité de l’analyse situationnelle. Une capitalisation du niveau d’atteintes des indicateurs est nécessaire pour traduire la situation sanitaire. Le présent tableau de bord de santé décrit cette situation à traver...s une appréciation objective des performances du système de santé en rapport avec la mise en œuvre des différentes stratégies et politiques telles le Plan national de développement sanitaire (PNDS), la Stratégie de croissance accéléré de développement durable (SCADD), les Objectifs du millénaire pour le développement (OMD) etc.
Son élaboration a requis un processus participatif avec la participation des acteurs du
système de santé notamment les structures centrales, les projets et programmes, les
acteurs du niveau intermédiaire, périphérique avec l’appui technique des partenaires. Audelà du caractère descriptif de la situation sanitaire, il apparait comme un outil de plaidoyer et interpelle sur les efforts à consentir pour une amélioration de l’état de santé des populations. Il comporte six sections que sont (i) les données générales, (ii) les ressources en santé, (iii) la santé de la mère et de l’enfant, (iv) les maladies à potentiel épidémique, (v) les maladies d’intérêt spécial, (vi) l’utilisation des services de santé.
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En este manual hemos recopilado información sobre las caracteristicas socioculturales de inmigrantes de distintas procedencias y os presentamos las dudas más comunes que nos han planteado respecto al VIH y al sida. No obstante debemos subrayar que se trata de información orientativa y no debe lug...ar a prejuicios sino ayudarnos a entender otras maneras de ver la realidad.
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PLOS Medicine | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002514 March 1, 2018