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Guidelines for essential trauma care
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Mock, C et al World Health Organization (WHO) (2004) C_WHO

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... more

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Comparison of routes for achieving parenteral access with a focus on the management of patients with Ebola virus disease

Ker K, Tansley G, Beec her D, Perner A, Shakur H, Harris T, Roberts I (2015)

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2015, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD011386. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011386.pub2 Free access from the website http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD011386.pub2 Watch a short film which accompanies this Cochrane Review and talks about applying ... more

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General and Broadly Based Interventions for Mental Health Consequences of Disasters NSW Health A

NSW Health and University of Western Sydney (2017) CC

NSW Health Disaster Mental Health, handbook 3 The Disaster Mental Health Manual and associated handbooks are intended as a resource for mental health staff who are seeking background information and practical guidance and resources to assist in a disaster mental health response.

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Siege and Death In Eastern Ghota

Assistance Coordination Unit (2018)

Over-plagued with deadly siege, the Eastern Ghota is still subject to a vicious military regime attack in an attempt to force its people to flee for their life or just die in place. The sufferings in Eastern Ghota have been continuing, unabated for more than five running years, leaving the area bere... more

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The Self Advocacy Tool Kit - For Mental Health Services Users

Christina Angela Ntulo CBM & Basic Needs UK in Uganda (BNUU) (2015) C2

First Edition~ This self advocacy toolkit for persons with mental, neurological and substance abuse disorders, developed by Basic Needs and CBM, is the end product of an action research intervention that tracked and documented processes for Self Advocacy in low resourced communities of Uganda. Th... more

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Papua New Guinea: Disaster Management Reference Handbook

Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (2016) C1

The 2012 NDRMP lays out the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) architecture of the country and provides guidance for DRM intervention at all levels. However, implementation has been slow and resource challenges exist throughout the government.
The PNG government’s policy and institutional framework... more

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Helping Health Workers Learn

Werner, D. and B. Bower Hesperian Health Guides (2012) C2

A book of methods, aids, and ideas for instructors at the village level An indispensable resource for health educators, this book provides hundreds of methods, aids, and learning strategies to make health education engaging and effective, encouraging community involvement through participatory edu... more

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Ebola virus disease exit screening at airports, ports and land crossings

World Health Organization (2014)

This document provides information to assist countries in developing exit screening plans and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). This includes the method, tools, and sequence of screening; determining resource needs; communication messages; and the legal considerations of screening

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Toolkit for the Integration of Mental Health into General Healthcare in Humanitarian Settings

International Medical Corps (2019) C1

This Toolkit aims to support the understanding and implementation of integrated mental health programs in humanitarian settings. It provides a framework for essential steps and components, with associated key guidance and resources, that strengthen the integration process, and is primarily intended ... more

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WHO Interim Guidance for Ebola Virus Disease: Exit Screening at Airports, Ports and Land Crossings

World Health Organization WHO (2014) C_WHO

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Myanmar’s National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) to Climate Change

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, National Environmental Conservation Committee (2012) C1

Sectors in which Priority Adaptation Projects should be implemented first include:
- 1) Agriculture, Early Warning Systems and Forest (First Priority Level Sectors). This is followed by:
- 2) Public Health and Water Resources (Second Priority Level Sectors);
- 3) Coastal Zone (Thir... more

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SMART Hospitals Toolkit

Pan American Health Organization PAHO; World Health Organization WHO (2013) CC

A practical guide for hospital administrators, health disaster coordinators, health facility designers, engineers and maintenance staff to achieve Smart Health Facilities by conserving resources, cutting costs, increasing efficiency in operations and reducing carbon emissions

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Handbook on Community-Led Total Sanitation

K.Kar and R. Chambers Plan International and Institute of Development Studies IDS (2008) CC

This handbook has been compiled as a source of ideas and experiences that can be used for CLTS orientation workshops, advocacy to stakeholders, training facilitators and natural leaders and implementing CLTS activities. It is a resource book especially for field staff, facilitators and trainers for ... more

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Strengthening the Health Systems Response to COVID-19 - Technical guidance #3

World Health Organization (Europe) (2020) C_WHO

Supply of essential medicines and health technologies (6 April 2020) This paper is one of a set of technical guidance papers developed by the WHO Regional Office for Europe to provide practical information and resources for decision-makers on measures to strengthen the health system response to C... more

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Six concrete measures to support women and girls in all their diversity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

UNAIDS (2020) C_WHO

The report underscores that sexual and reproductive health and rights are often the first to be sacrificed during epidemics and that the gains of the past decade must be protected. The report also makes it clear that scarce resources must be focused on the most marginalized women and girls, includin... more

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Catholic Social Teaching cards

CAFOD (1992) C2

Catholic Social Teaching (CST) has often been called ‘the Church’s best kept secret’. Thankfully, particularly with the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, and with the new RE GCSE, this is changing. CST is part of our Catholic young people’s heritage and a treasure they sho... more

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Guidance on pooled testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
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African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2020) C1

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on the use of pooled sample testing strategy in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing laboratories of the African Union Member States for scaling up SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid testing capacity with the available resources. The current document descr... more

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National Physical Activity Action Plan 2018-2023

Republic of Kenya, Ministry of Health (2018) CC

Although Kenyans enjoy comparatively good health, the prevalence of chronic disease is increasing and our ageing population is placing evergrowing pressures on the finite resources of our health system.

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Manual for running a mobile clinic: Adapted for the North-West & South-West regions of Cameroon

Health Cluster, Nutrition Cluster, OCHA (2021) CC

In emergency or humanitarian settings, mobile clinics are used to bring essential lifesaving health care to communities affected by crises. Though there are standard emergency benefit packages for health services during emergencies, there are however no agreed or standard way of running mobile clini... more

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Guidelines on the definition and characterization of extreme weather and climate events

Ren, F.; Pattanaik, D.; Cerveny, R. et al. World Meteorological Organization WMO (2023) CC

The guidance in this publication consists of generic definitions and methodologies for the characterization of extreme weather and climate events. This publication contribute to ensuring consistent exchange of information that underpins the WMO State of the Climate Reports, Climate Watches, climate ... more

Guidelines for essential trauma care recommended

Guidance on pooled testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) recommended

Guidelines for essential trauma care
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Guidance on pooled testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
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