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Best Practice Guidelines on Emergency Surgical Care in Disaster Situations

World Health Organization WHO, EHT, CPR (2005)

These guidelines have been extracted from the WHO manual Surgical Care at the District Hospital (SCDH), which is a part of the WHO Integrated Management Package on Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (IMPEESC). Refer for details on anaesthesia, head, gunshot and landmine injuries in chapters

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Field-friendly Guide to Integrate Emergency Obstetric Care in Humanitarian Programs

Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium (2005) C1

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Nigeria: Strategies for Strengthening the Secondary Health Care (SHC) Delivery Service

Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria (2005) C1

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Practical Guidelines for Infection Control in Health Care Facilities
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Manju Vatsa, Duangvadee Sungkhobol, Sudarshan Kumari, et al. WHO Western Pacific, Manila, and WHO South-East Asia, New Delhi (2004)

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Integrating Mental Health into Primary Health Care

World Health Organization WHO (2007) C_WHO

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Prevent Blindness through primary eye care

Programme for the Prevention of Blindness and Deafness (World Health Organisation), International Eye Foundation & CBM (2005) C_WHO

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Package for Emergency Resuscitation and Intensive Care Unit

World Health Organization WHO (2003) C_WHO

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Teacher's guide: Management of wastes from health-care activities

Pruess, A.; W.K. Townend World Health Organization WHO (1999) C_WHO

This Teacher’s Guide accompanies the WHO publication Management of wastes from health-care activities . It provides teaching materials and recommendations for a three day training course, designed mainly for managers of health-care establishments, public health professionals and policy makers

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Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2002)

Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force

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Quality Improvement for Emergency Obstetric Care - Leadership Manual

EngenderHealth (2003)

An Adaptation of COPE (Client-Oriented, Provider-Efficient Services) For the toolbox visit: http://www.engenderhealth.org/pubs/maternal/obstetric-delivery-care.php

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Infection Prevention Practices in Emergency Obstetric Care

EngenderHealth (2003)

A Supplement to Infection Prevention: A Reference Booklet for Health Care Providers

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Philippines: Mabuhayka Pusong Pinay! Assessment and mangement of cardiovascular risks in women

Philippine Heart Association, Counsil on Women's Cardiovascular Health (2005) C1

A short Guide for Health Practitioners

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Medicinal plants for forest conservation and health care

Bodeker, Gerard (Ed.) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (1997) C1

Non-Wood Forest Products 11 Traditional medicine and its use of medicinal plants is dependent on reliable supply of plant materials. The book focuses on the interface between medicinal plant use and conservation of medicinal plants.

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Heart failure in low-income and middle-income countries: failing REPORT card grades

Naik, N.; Narula, J. The Lancet Global Health (2020) CC

Heart failure is an important global health problem, and the associated public health and economic effect is increasing across all societies and geographies. Epidemiological studies have estimated that there are more than 25 million patients with heart failure globally, and population-based studie... more

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Infrastructure, policy and regulatory interventions to increase physical activity to prevent cardiovascular diseases and diabetes: a systematic review

Durão, S.; Burns, J.; Schmidt, B. et al. BMC Public Health (2023) CC

Background Noncommunicable diseases are major contributors to morbidity and mortality worldwide. Modifying the risk factors for these conditions, such as physical inactivity, is thus essential. Addressing the context or circumstances in which physical activity occurs may promote physical activity a...t a population level. We assessed the effects of infrastructure, policy or regulatory interventions for increasing physical activity. Methods We searched PubMed, Embase and clinicaltrials.gov to identify randomised controlled trials (RCTs), controlled before-after (CBAs) studies, and interrupted time series (ITS) studies assessing population-level infrastructure or policy and regulatory interventions to increase physical activity. We were interested in the effects of these interventions on physical activity, body weight and related measures, blood pressure, and CVD and type 2 diabetes morbidity and mortality, and on other secondary outcomes. Screening and data extraction was done in duplicate, with risk of bias was using an adapted Cochrane risk of bias tool. Due to high levels of heterogeneity, we synthesised the evidence based on effect direction. Results We included 33 studies, mostly conducted in high-income countries. Of these, 13 assessed infrastructure changes to green or other spaces to promote physical activity and 18 infrastructure changes to promote active transport. The effects of identified interventions on physical activity, body weight and blood pressure varied across studies (very low certainty evidence); thus, we remain very uncertain about the effects of these interventions. Two studies assessed the effects of policy and regulatory interventions; one provided free access to physical activity facilities and showed that it may have beneficial effects on physical activity (low certainty evidence). The other provided free bus travel for youth, with intervention effects varying across studies (very low certainty evidence). Conclusions Evidence from 33 studies assessing infrastructure, policy and regulatory interventions for increasing physical activity showed varying results. The certainty of the evidence was mostly very low, due to study designs included and inconsistent findings between studies. Despite this drawback, the evidence indicates that providing access to physical activity facilities may be beneficial; however this finding is based on only one study. Implementation of these interventions requires full consideration of contextual factors, especially in low resource settings. more

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Rehabilitation Task Force Technical Note: Spinal Cord Injury Care in Gaza

Health Cluster; World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

The war in Gaza has resulted in many hundreds of spinal cord injuries (SCI), which will have a devastating impact on those injured and their families for the rest of their lives. The optimal management of SCI requires effective pre-hospital care, early specialized imaging (using CT or MRI) and in... more

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Emergence of diabetes education and capacity-building programs for primary care physicians in India

Mehra, R.; Vats, S.; Kumar, R.; et al. (2022) CC2

Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death globally. India is home to the second-largest population suffering from diabetes. This underscores the need to build capacity of primary care physicians (PCPs) for better disease management. This narrative review article aims to describe the emergence o... more

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Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases: guidelines for primary health care in low resource settings 2012

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2012) C_WHO

The primary goal of the guideline is to improve the quality of care and the outcome in people with type 2 diabetes in low-resource settings. It recommends a set of basic interventions to integrate management of diabetes into primary health care. It will serve as basis for development of simple algor... more

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WHO package of essential noncommunicable (PEN) disease interventions for primary health care

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2020) C_WHO

The "WHO Package of Essential Noncommunicable (PEN) Disease Interventions for Primary Health Care" provides a set of cost-effective, evidence-based interventions to address noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, and cancers. Designed ... more

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Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) data Portal – chief among them, cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – chief among them, cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases – cause nearly three-quarters of deaths in the world. Their drivers are social, environmental, commercial and genetic, and their presence is g... more

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