It explains the importance of faecal sludge management in urban areas in which many people rely on on-site and decentralized sanitation facilities and emphasizes the place of treatment in the overall sanitation service chain. It defines terms used throughout the book, explains why faecal sludge and ...septage treatment is important, and identifies broad treatment objectives.
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Cureus 16(2): e53933. DOI 10.7759/cureus.53933
This publications outlines the specific reproductive health needs of this cadre of adolescents and the programmatic responses that can be used to reach them.
временное руководство, 13 мая 2020 г.
Целью настоящего документа является предоставле- ние временных рекомендаций по биологической без- опасности в лабораторных усл...виях, которые следует соблюдать при исследовании клинических образцов пациентов, подпадающих под определение случаев ин- фицирования новым патогеном, выявленным в Ухане, Китай, то есть коронавирусным заболеванием 2019 г. COVID-19.
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Научные журналы играют важную роль в проведении и распространении результатов исследований. Однако в настоящее время в обще доступных журналах, посвященных психи...ческому здоровью и психиатрии, публикуется ничтожно малое количество материалов по исследованиям, проводимых в этих странах, или посложившейся в них ситуации. И в тоже время более 85% мирового населения проживают в 153 странах, отнесенных на основании критериев Всемирного банка к категории стран с низким и средним уровнем дохода. Еще большее беспокойство вызывает тот факт, что, как можно заметить, разрыв в числе публикаций между этими странами истранами с высоким уровнем дохода может еще больше увеличиться. Это совещание имело цель найти способы урегулирования этой неблагоприятной ситуации.
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Empowering Health Workers to Improve Service Delivery. This training program is designed to build the capacity of program managers and health providers in quality management, and improve the provision of high-quality health services.
Please download the chapters directly from the website: https://w...ww.usaidassist.org/resources/kenya-quality-model-health-training-course-health-sector
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COVID-19 is a pandemic that is currently ravaging the world. Infection rate is steadily increasingin Sub-Saharan Africa. Pregnant women and their infants may suffer severe illnesses due to theirlower immunity. This guideline prepares and equips clinicians working in the maternal and new-born section...s in the sub-region to manage COVID-19 during pregnancy and childbir
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O recente aumento dos casos de microcefalia e outras patologias neurológicas potencialmente associadas à infecção pelo vírus Zika provocou um aumento da procura de testes laboratoriais para detectar a infecção. Os grupos prioritários para os testes de diagnóstico devem ser
indivíduos sin...tomáticos e mulheres grávidas assintomáticas com possível exposição ao vírus Zika. O presente documento fornece orientações sobre as actuais estratégias de testes da infecção pelo vírus Zika. Este documento será revisto e actualizado à medida que surgirem novas informações.
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Contact tracing is a key component of the COVID-19 response, particularly as societies begin to lift non-pharmaceutical interventions. However, it is a time-consuming and resource-intensive effort that depends on a trained and motivated workforce. Emergent digital contact tracing and quarantine (...DCTQ) tools offer the potential to complement and strengthen conventional contact tracing initiatives on an unprecedented scale. Despite their visibility throughout the pandemic
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Les modules de formation et d’orientation QualityRights ont été élaborés pour renforcer les connaissances, les compétences et la compréhension des principales parties prenantes sur la manière de promouvoir les droits des personnes en situation de handicap psychosocial, intellectuel ou cogni...tif, d'améliorer la qualité des services et des aides fournis dans le domaine de
la santé mentale et dans les domaines connexes, conformément aux normes internationales en matière de droits humains, et en particulier la Convention des Nations unies relative aux droits des personnes handicapées et l'approche du rétablissement.
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This article describes experiences in implementing a community mental health and development project in a rural district in southern India, including the position of persons with mental illness when the project was initiated, the challenges faced and the strategies that were developed to overcome th...ese challenges. The authors conclude that when services are locally available, persons with mental illness can be treated and rehabilitated within their own community. They can live with dignity and their rights are respected. There is a great need for inclusion of persons with mental illness in the existing developmental activities and in disabled persons’ organisations.
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This research report provides results from the study on living conditions among people with disabilities in Zambia. Comparisons are made between individuals with and without disabilities and also between households with and without a disabled family member. Results obtained in Zambia are also compar...ed to those obtained in earlier studies carried out in Namibia, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The Zambian study was undertaken in 2005-2006.
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Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Vol. 117: e220083chgsa, 2022
Two adjectives raise an issue for communicators working on Chagas disease (CD): “invisible and silent”. Two adjectives that can be ascribed to other neglected tropical diseases (NTD), but which are part of the essence of CD. Br...inging CD out of its situation of neglect and oblivion is a mission entrusted mainly to the world of communication as well as of science, politics and financial resources. However, communication has not always been considered among the priorities in the approach to the disease, except in valuable exceptions, some of which we have seen in the preceding article.
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This manual focuses on the availability and clinical use of oxygen therapy in children in health facilities by providing the practical aspects for health workers, biomedical engineers, and administrators. It addresses the need for appropriate detection of hypoxaemia, use of pulse oximetry, clinical ...use of oxygen and delivery systems and monitoring of patients on oxygen therapy.
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