THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CEREBRAL PALSY ALLIANCE newsletter – NOVEMBER 2012
This publication is based on the list of clinical interventions selected from clinical guidelines on prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, palliative care, monitoring and end of life care. This publication addresses medical devices for six types of cancer: breast, cervical, colorectal, leukem...ia, lung and prostate. The first section defines the global increase in cancer cases, the global goals to manage NCDs and the WHO activities related to these goals. The second section presents the methodology used for the selection of medical devices that support clinical interventions required to screen, diagnose, treat and monitor cancer stages, as well as the provision of palliative care, based on evidence-based information. The third section lists the priority medical devices required to manage cancer in seven different units of health care services: 1. Vaccination, clinical assessment and endoscopy, 2. Medical imaging and nuclear medicine, 3. Surgery, 4. Laboratory and pathology, 5. Radiotherapy, 6. Systemic therapy and 7. Palliative and end of life care
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Healthy Diets From Sustainable Food Systems. Summary Report of the EAT Lancet Commission
This report was prepared by EAT and is an adapted summary of the Commission Food in The Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets From Sustainable Food Systems.
To access the EAT–Lancet Comm...ission Hub page at The Lancet on the website https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/EAT
You can download the Summary Report in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
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We need to be concerned about mental health in the context of climate change
The Guidelines for essential trauma care seek to set achievable standards for trauma treatment services which could realistically be made available to almost every injured person in the world. They then seek to define the resources that would be necessary to assure such care. These include human res...ources (staffing and training) and physical resources (infrastructure, equipment and supplies).
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This report from Human Rights Watch found that South Africa has failed to guarantee the right to education for many of the country’s children and young adults due to widespread discrimination against children with disabilities in enrollment decisions. Human Rights Watch research in five out of Sou...th Africa’s nine provinces showed that children with disabilities face discriminatory physical and attitudinal barriers, often beginning early in children’s lives when government officials classify them according to their disabilities. Human Rights Watch August 2015
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Trastornos de ansiedad
Capítulo F.3
Editores: Laura Revert, Matías Irarrázaval & Andres Martin
Traducción: Régis Villegas, Paula Placencia, José Ángel Alda & Paula Cox
World Health Organization. (2021). Minimum technical standards and recommendations for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care for emergency medical teams. World Health Organization.
Technical Update
HIV Treatment
July 2017
Ein Handbuch für die ehrenamtliche Flüchtlingshilfe in Baden Württemberg. Es ist ein Buch zum „Immer-Griffbereit-haben“ im handlichen Taschenformat. Auf 140 Seiten sind die wichtigsten Themen für die Arbeit mit Flüchtlingen zusammengestellt und mit informativen Hinweisen, guten Beispielen a...us der Praxis, wichtigen Adressen und Ansprechpartnern angereichert. Das Handbuch können Sie kostenlos bestellen.
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Die Broschüre gibt Antworten auf wichtige Fragestellungen wie etwa zur Gleichberechtigung von Männern und Fraün, zur Meinungsfreiheit, zur Religions- und Glaubensfreiheit sowie zu Rechtsangelegenheiten vor einem staatlichen Gericht. Außerdem sind in der Broschüre Kontaktadressen zu staatlichen ...und nichtstaatlichen Beratungsangeboten gesammelt, an die Sie sich wenden können, wenn Sie z.B. bedroht werden oder Probleme in Ihrer Familie haben. In den Sprachen Deutsch, Englisch, Arabisch, Urdu, Paschtu und Dari
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Für viele Städte ist eine klimafreundliche Mobilität eine Herausforderung, der sie sich zunehmend stellen. Viele Fragen stehen im Raum: wie sieht Mobilität und eine Stadt von morgen aus? Wie komme ich klima- und umweltfreundlich zur Schule und zur Arbeit? Was für eine Wende ist dafür nötig un...d wie könnte diese aussehen? Das Unterrichtsmaterial „Verkehr(t)!“ regt die Schüler*innen dazu an, das Verkehrsverhalten in ihrer Umwelt zu analysieren und ihre eigene Mobilität kritisch unter die Lupe zu nehmen. Sie erkunden, welche Bedeutung Verkehr für Umwelt und Klima hat und identifizieren Stellen, an denen Handeln möglich und notwendig ist.
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This report uses the Food Systems Dashboard’s conceptual framework to
define and describe food systems. It summarizes the components, drivers,
and outcomes of food systems. The report also describes the food system
typologies used in the Dashboard
This Strategy and Plan of Action on Health Promotion within the Context of the Sustainable Development
Goals 2019-2030 seeks to renew health promotion (HP) through social, political, and technical actions,
addressing the social determinants of health (SDH), he conditions in which people are born, ...grow, live,
work, and age (1). It seeks to improve health and reduce health inequities within the framework of
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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Lancet Public health 2022 January 6, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/ S2468-2667(21)00249-8
Growth in the number of individuals living with dementia underscores the need for public health planning efforts and policy to address the needs of this group. Country-level estimates can be used to inform nati...onal planning efforts and decisions. Multifaceted approaches, including scaling up interventions to address modifiable risk factors and investing in research on biological mechanisms, will be key in addressing the expected increases in the number of individuals affected by dementia.
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Int J Ment Health Syst. 2013 Jan 9;7(1):2. doi: 10.1186/1752-4458-7-2.