The materials focus on promoting balanced nutrition by encouraging the consumption of a variety of fruits and vegetables ("eating a rainbow") to obtain essential vitamins and minerals. They aim to educate children, parents, and educators on healthy eating practices, reducing sugar, salt, and fat int...ake, and understanding the nutritional benefits of diverse food groups for better health.
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Le renforcement des actions de promotion de l’allaitement maternel notamment la mise au sein précoce et l’allaitement maternel exclusif pendant les six premiers mois de vie, constitue est une priorité absolue dans la stratégie de réduction de la mortalité infantile au Bénin. En effet, le l...ait maternel est l’aliment idéal pour les nouveau-nés et les nourrissons. L’allaitement maternel est un puissant rempart contre la diarrhée, les infections respiratoires aiguës et la malnutrition.
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Nurses are key players in health promotion and disease prevention and the backbone of health care systems worldwide. Nurses work on the front lines of disease prevention, health promotion, and health management and are often the unsung heroes in health care facilities and emergency response. Despite... the critical role they play in health care, there is a nursing shortage across the world that will affect the delivery of competent nursing care. This document highlights key action points for targeted investment in the nursing workforce and calls on Member States to strengthen nursing within the context of their own country efforts.
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Planning, Promotion, Contruction & Design. Manual
Nurses are key players in health promotion and disease prevention and the backbone of health care systems worldwide. Nurses work on the front lines of disease prevention, health promotion, and health management and are often the unsung heroes in health care facilities and emergency response. Despite... the critical role they play in health care, there is a nursing shortage across the world that will affect the delivery of competent nursing care. This fact sheet highlights key action points for targeted investment in the nursing workforce and calls on Member States to strengthen nursing within the context of their own country efforts. Suggestions for action and strategies for strengthening the nursing workforce in primary health care services are through investment in education, jobs, leadership, and service delivery are provided.
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Training manual for volunteers
Early Childhood Reading Promotion
Este material busca generar conciencia sobre el impacto de la lectura en la vida de los niños y las niñas y ofrecer herramientas para sensibilizar, capacitar y demostrar a las familias de las comunidades todo lo que se puede gener...ar promoviendo el vínculo y el apego a partir de la lectura desde temprana edad.
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The "Hygiene Awareness Manual" focuses on promoting improved hygiene practices within communities, emphasizing personal and household hygiene, water safety, and environmental health. It highlights the importance of handwashing, oral hygiene, and maintaining cleanliness of the skin and clothing as ke...y aspects of personal and family hygiene. Specific practices such as regular bathing and wearing clean clothes are also emphasized.
For household hygiene, the manual provides guidance on safe food preparation and storage, as well as keeping living spaces, kitchens, and latrines clean to prevent contamination. It also addresses water safety, emphasizing the need to store water in clean containers, treat it for safe consumption, and dispose of wastewater properly to avoid environmental contamination.
The manual underscores the significance of balanced nutrition and food safety, offering guidelines for cooking and preserving food to reduce health risks. It also delves into disease prevention, explaining the causes and transmission of waterborne and hygiene-related diseases, such as cholera and dysentery, and outlining effective methods to prevent them through proper sanitation and hygiene.
This comprehensive guide serves as a practical resource for community health workers and households, aiming to foster better hygiene practices, prevent diseases, and enhance overall health and well-being.
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The factsheet is aimed at promoting good water, sanitation and hygiene practices, particularly handwashing with soap as an important barrier to the transmission of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. The factsheet also provides messages on measures for cleaning and disinfecting the home.
These Blended Learning Modules cover the full range of health promotion, disease prevention, basic management and essential treatment protocols to improve and protect the health of rural communities in Ethiopia. A strong focus is on enabling Ethiopia to meet the Millennium Development Goals to reduc...e maternal mortality by three-quarters and under-5 child mortality by two-thirds by the year 2015. The Modules cover antenatal care, labour and delivery, postnatal care, the integrated management of newborn and childhood illness, communicable diseases (including HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, leprosy and other common infectious diseases), family planning, adolescent and youth reproductive health, nutrition and food safety, hygiene and environmental health, non-communicable diseases, health education and community mobilisation, and health planning and professional ethics.
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Livre I : Dispositions générales
Livre II : Protection générale et promotion de la santé publique
Livre III : Professions de santé et leur régime juridique
Livre IV : Produits pharmaceutiques, autres produits et pharmacopée traditionnelle
Livre V : Dispositions finales
Vous trouverez dans les pages suivantes de la documentation promotionnelle, y compris les documents d’informations, les affiches, les messages postés sur les réseaux sociaux et les autres ressources sur la vaccination, qui vous permettront de densifier les activités en cours et de faciliter les... communications au cours de la semaine. N’hésitez pas à personnaliser et adapter la documentation aux besoins spécifiques de votre pays.
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Las enfermeras y los enfermeros son actores clave en la promoción de la salud y la prevención de enfermedades y la columna vertebral de los sistemas de atención sanitaria en todo el mundo. Las enfermeras y los enfermeros trabajan en la primera línea de la prevención de enfermedades, la promoci...n de la salud y la gestión de la salud, y a menudo son los héroes olvidados en los servicios de salud y en la respuesta a las emergencias. A pesar del papel fundamental que desempeñan en la atención de la salud, existe una escasez de enfermeras en todo el mundo que afectará a la prestación de cuidados de enfermería.
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These new reports from WHO document evidence of widespread inappropriate promotion of baby and toddler foods. Despite the WHO Guidance on ending inappropriate promotion of foods for infants and young children agreed in 2016 and nearly 40 years since the introduction of the International Code of Mark...eting of Breast-milk Substitutes, many companies that manufacture or distribute commercial baby foods fail to comply with these rules.
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Meeting the rehabilitation needs of people affected by leprosy and promoting quality of life.
Réduction des risques, promotion de la résilience et aide au relèvement
Cette Boîte à images fait partie du projet de « Promotion des services d’appui
juridique à la lutte contre le VIH/sida dans les villes de Cotonou, Porto-Novo, Abomey
Calavi et Ouidah au sud Bénin », mis en oeuvre par l’Association Béninoise de Droit
du Développement (ABDD).
La boîte... à images a été présentée sous forme d’avant-projet lors d’un atelier qui s’est
déroulé les 18 et 19 février 2016 à Ouidah. Les contributions au projet de boîte à
images des participants ont été incorporées dans la version finale.
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This technical brief presents the current options for safe storage and point of use water treatment. It is intended to help field staff working in a variety of locations to decide upon the most appropriate course of action for providing safe water for the communities in which they work. The effectiv...eness of household water treatment options now and in the future rely to a huge extent on user compliance; it is critical that users are involved in the decision making process, and are aware of the purpose, how to use, maintain and manage their household water options. The brief therefore details relevant hygiene promotion steps for the different treatment options.
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La SNPEME définit ainsi les orientations nationales pour la promotion de l‟abandon
total du mariage d‟enfants et comporte un ensemble d‟actions pertinentes retenues
de façon consensuelle. Elle décrit en outre le cadre législatif, les mécanismes et les
modalités de sa mise en œuvre. E...lle s‟articule autour des points suivants :
- l‟analyse diagnostique ;
- les éléments de la stratégie;
- le financement ;
- le mécanisme de mise en œuvre ;
- les hypothèses et risques.
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Public Health is the science field dedicated to promoting health and well-being, and preventing disease within the human population to ultimately increase the quality of our livelihood and life span. Public Health does not focus on individual patients or diseases, but rather a given population and ...health system. The discipline is community-centered in its interventions and seeks to improve the health status of whole populations...
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Au regard de l’importance de la recherche dans la promotion de la santé des
populations, le Ministère de la Santé a créé en son sein, depuis avril 2005, la
Direction de la Recherche en Santé (DRS) dont le rôle est d’orienter, de coordonner
et d’évaluer les activités de recherche da...ns le domaine de la santé. Pour permettre à
la DRS de jouer efficacement ce rôle, le Ministère de la Santé a adopté une politique
de recherche en santé axée sur les problèmes prioritaires de santé des populations
béninoises.
La mise en oeuvre de cette politique nécessite un plan stratégique. Le présent
document répond à ce besoin. Il présente les composantes du plan stratégique
de recherche en santé au Bénin pour la période de 2010 à 2014.
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