La presente establece los lineamientos y procedimientos para la vigilancia epidemiológica de COVID-19 en el país. Asimismo, los procedimientos, metodología e instrumentos para la vigilancia epidemiológica de COVID-19 en pacientes hospitalizados y las defunciones por COVID-19 en el país.
Public Health Risk Analysis and Surveillance
Public Health Surveillance Protocol Tuberculosis
Marzo 2020First Aid Guide
Psychological First Aid and Psychosocial Support for first responders SARS CoV-2 / COVID-19
Consensual recommendations for outpatient management and home care
and home treatment of patients with COVID-19
COVID - 19 and PREGNANCY
Management guidelines for SARS-CoV-2 infection
Guideline for the handling and the disposal of the remains of people who died of COVID-19
This updated glossary for malaria aims to improve communication and mutual understanding within the scientific community, as well as with funding agencies, public health officials responsible for malaria programmes, and policy-makers in malaria-endemic countries
Active Community Policy Strategy - Containment, mitigation and recovery plan on post-confinement in response to COVID-19
Consolidated recommendations for palliative care in the SARS pandemic-Cov-2/COVID-19 2020
Recommendations for in-patient management of COVID-19 in adult patients
Version 10, November 2020.
Guidelines for diagnosis, acute care and post-COVID-19 follow-up for children and adolescents
Strategic Plan for COVID-19 vaccination in Argentina
Tips and guidelines for the care of pregnant women and newborns in the context of the pandemic. ( version 16 June 2021)
Prevention and Control of Covid-19 Transmission: Isolation and follow-up of suspected and/or confirmed cases and close contact tracing strategy
Palliative care in COVID-19 patients - 27 January 2021
Laboratory Safety Handbook. Global edition
Las pruebas de cultivo y sensibilidad a fármacos son necesarias especialmente para los pacientes con riesgo de tuberculosis resistente a los medicamentos y para vigilar su respuesta al tratamiento. Si bien el cultivo y las pruebas de sensibilidad son ca...da vez más accesibles, la infraestructura para realizarlos es compleja y requiere equipos especializados y costosos. Con vistas a garantizar que el personal de laboratorio realice su trabajo de forma correcta y segura, este manual ofrece una guía práctica mediante textos sencillos e ilustraciones claras que ayudan a comprender los problemas de seguridad conexos. De ahí la importancia de su publicación en español para la red de laboratorios nacionales y supranacionales que apoya la Organización Panamericana de la Salud en la Región de las Américas.
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This report summarizes the latest scientific knowledge on the links between exposure to air pollution and adverse health effects in children. It is intended to inform and motivate individual and collective action by health care professionals to prevent damage to children’s health from exposure to ...air pollution.
Air pollution is a major environmental health threat. Exposure to fine particles in both the ambient environment and in the household causes about seven million premature deaths each year. Ambient air pollution alone imposes enormous costs on the global economy, amounting to more than US$ 5 trillion in total welfare losses in 2013.
This public health crisis is receiving more attention, but one critical aspect is often overlooked: how air pollution affects children in uniquely damaging ways. Recent data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) show that air pollution has a vast and terrible impact on child health and survival. Globally, 93% of all children live in environments with air pollution levels above the WHO guidelines (see the full report, Air pollution and child health: prescribing clean air. More than one in every four deaths of children under 5 years of age is directly or indirectly related to environmental risks. Both ambient air pollution and household air pollution contribute to respiratory tract infections that resulted in 543 000 deaths in children under the age of 5 years in 2016.
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