A resposta a um surto de cólera focaliza geralmente os aspectos médicos que são importantes para reduzir a mortalidade. Contudo, há necessidade de uma resposta mais abrangente para limitar a propagação da doença. Como a resposta a surtos é geralmente dirigida por profi ssionais médicos, pod...e
haver tendência para negligenciar outros aspectos, tais como problemas ambientais ou de comunicação.
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The manual is written for clinicians working at the district hospital (first-level referral care) who diagnose and manage sick adolescents and adults in resource constrained settings. It aims to support clinical reasoning, and to provide an effective clinical approach and protocols for the managemen...t of common and serious or potentially life-threatening conditions at district hospitals. The target audience thus includes doctors, clinical officers, health officers, and senior nurse practitioners. It has been designed to be applicable in both high and low HIV prevalence settings.
Volume 2 provides a symptom-based approach to clinical care for acute and subacute conditions (including mental health). It provides short summaries of the management of diseases that affect multiple systems of the body, focusing on communicable diseases. It also includes the chronic or long-term management of HIV, TB, alcohol, and substance use disorders.
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Investigación original / Original research
Panam Salud Publica. 2016;39(1):38–43.
Advances in Infectious Diseases, 2015, 5, 57-62
Published Online March 2015 in SciRes.
The Open Infectious Diseases Journal, 2010, 4, 33-37
Trials (2017) 18:152, DOI 10.1186/s13063-017-1881-z
Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá 2 y 3 de marzo, 2010
This study examines the gendered impacts of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Liberia in the largest outbreak of EVD ever recorded. The findings are based on an extensive two-week desk study and one-week participatory field study conducted in January 2015 in the cities of Monrovia and Buchanan in Lib...eria
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Guidelines
HIV drug resistance
July 2017
Summary of current WHO recommendations and guidance on programmatic approaches
A STUDY OF THE CHALLENGES FACED BY PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN POST-EARTHQUAKE
NEPAL.