WHO recommends member states provide universal access to public hand hygiene stations and making their use obligatory on entering and leaving any public or private commercial building and any public transport facility. It is also recommended that healthcare facilities improve access to and practice ...of hand hygiene.
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                                                                TEP UP Technical Working Paper
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This guideline provides health policy-makers and decision-makers in health professional training institutions with advice on the rationale for health-care providers’ use of counselling skills to address sexual health concerns in a primary health care setting
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                •	provide scientific information on the safety, efficacy, and quality control/ quality assurance of widely used medicinal plants, in order to facilitate their appropriate use in Member States;
•	provide models to assist Member States in developing their own mono- graphs or formularies for these... or other herbal medicines; and
•	facilitate information exchange among Member States.
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                                                                Stop TB Communicable Diseases
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                A new frontier for integrated care.
Until now, most efforts to promote integrated care have focused on bridging the gaps between health and social care or between primary and secondary care. But the NHS five year forward view has highlighted a third dimension – bringing together physical and ment...al health. This report makes a compelling case for this ‘new frontier’ for integration. It gives service users’ perspectives on what integrated care would look like and highlights ten areas that offer some of the biggest opportunities for improving quality and controlling costs.
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                                                                Policy Brief
Accessed: 20.11.2019
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                BioMed Central; BMC International Health and Human Rights (2016) 16:20; DOI 10.1186/s12914-016-0094-y
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                A Snapshot of European Collection Schemes
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Die Pandemie bestimmt weiterhin unser alltägliches Leben und macht das Thema Gesundheit zu einem der wichtigsten unserer Zeit. Doch wie sieht die Lebenswelt beim Thema Gesundheit für Asylsuchende aus? Sowohl der Zugang als auch der Umfang von Gesundheitsleistungen hängt in einem starken Maße von... einem Faktor ab – dem Zufall der Unterbringung. Denn wie der Zugang der Asylsuchenden zur medizinischen Versorgung gestaltet ist und wie die Kosten der Versorgung von Asylsuchenden an Kommunen erstattet werden, unterscheidet sich dabei von Bundesland zu Bundesland.
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                                                                Air pollution is a major environmental risk factor and contributor to chronic, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). However, most public health approaches to NCD prevention focus on behavioural and biomedical risk factors, rather than environmental risk factors such as air pollution. This article discus...ses the implications of such a focus. It then outlines the opportunities for those in public health and environmental science to work together across three key areas to address air pollution, NCDs and climate change: (a) acknowledging the shared drivers, including corporate determinants; (b) taking a ‘co-benefits’ approach to NCD prevention; and (c) expanding prevention research and evaluation methods through investing in systems thinking and intersectoral, cross-disciplinary collaborations.
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                                                                The introduction of vaccines for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) added another measure to the existing set of
recommended preventive measures (wearing a mask in public, keeping a distance from other people and regular handwashing). The roll-out of the vaccines, however, raised concerns that vac...cination may lead to lower adherence to the existing
preventive measures. The advice from the World Health Organization (WHO) was to continue these public health and
social measures after being vaccinated.1  However, evidence from other epidemics suggests that there is lower adherence to
preventive measures when some level of protection exists (for example, individuals who use human immunodeficiency virus
pre-exposure prophylaxis
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                                                                The technical note from the Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC) examines the risks and benefits of vaccinating pregnant women with WHO-prequalified oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) during mass vaccination campaigns. It highlights that three WHO-approved vaccines (Dukoral®, Shanchol™, and Euv...ichol®) offer sustained protection and a strong safety profile.
While these vaccines are not explicitly contraindicated for pregnant women, there is limited clinical data on their use during pregnancy. However, studies indicate that pregnant women with cholera face higher risks of fetal loss, stillbirth, and complications, especially if they experience severe dehydration. Some evidence suggests that vaccination can reduce cholera incidence in pregnant women and indirectly protect infants.
Although no controlled trials have focused on pregnant women, retrospective studies in Guinea and Zanzibar showed no significant increase in adverse pregnancy outcomes after OCV administration. The GTFCC concludes that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks, particularly in high-risk areas, and recommends including pregnant women in cholera vaccination campaigns while continuing to monitor safety data.
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                                                                Disaster Preparedness Training Programme
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Regional Tuberculosis Program, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The Ministry of Health together with its partners realizes that efficient and effective
delivery of clinical care is highly dependent on the availability of appropriately
upgraded environment, which is in well facilitated space. Such facilities and utilities
should always be properly designed, bu...ilt, and maintained, so as to ensure efficient
treatment in clean and safe from infection.
The main challenges in achieving this include the lack of, appropriate holistic and
futuristic management plans, human resource for facility/utility management and
maintenance, adequate budget funds for renovation/maintenance activities at all
levels which means daily and long-term of facility maintenance plans and executions.
It is hoped that the guidelines will help to standardise
design of medical facilities and utilities country wide and result in efficient and
effective establishment of these life-saving function
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