NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS AND LEPROSY PROGRAMME
Core Knowledge for Emergency Preparedness and Response
Challenges in achieving the MDG for maternal mortality. In-depth analysis of the EDHS 2000-2011
Infant Psychiatry
Chapter B.1
Early Maltreatment and exposure to violence
Mood disorders
Chapter E.2
Other disorders
Chapter H.6
Alcohol misuses
Substance use disorders
Chapter G.1
Miscellaneous
Chapter J.2
Q 6. Does the provision of sterile injection equipment to injecting drug users reduce injecting related harm? Is advice on ways to reduce drug related harm safe and effective, using an outreach model of service delivery?
Strengthening health-system emergency preparedness.
This document is written for local and international staff running nutrition programmes in emergencies, and for local, regional and national authorities and donors involved in such programmes.
The note explains why nutrition programmes need to include early childhood development (ECD) activities t...o maximize the child’s development.
It provides practical suggestions as to what simple steps are necessary to create integrated programmes in situations of famine or food insecurity and it gives examples of how such integrated programmes have been established in other situations.
This document is also available in Arabic: http://www.who.int/mental_health/emergencies/ecd_why_what_how_arabic.pdf?ua=1
;and in French: http://www.who.int/mental_health/emergencies/ecd_why_what_how_french.pdf?ua=1
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