Oxygen is an essential medicine required at all levels of the health care system; only high quality, medical-grade oxygen should be given to patients. Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen generating plants are a source of medical-grade oxygen. This document provides technical specifications as th...e minimum requirements that a PSA Oxygen Plant must meet for use for the administration of medical-grade oxygen.
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Mental health and psychosocial considerations during the COVID-19 outbreak
This is the story of how an experiment in the north of Ghana changed the health of a nation. How health staff in remote and rural areas are working tirelessly to prevent the deaths of mothers and children. How a radical approach to health research, known as embedded research, has revolutionized how ...the government delivers health services under difficult circumstances.
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Presently, there is no evidence that the virus responsible for the current COVID-19 pandemic is carried by domestic food-producing animals, such as chickens, ducks, other poultry, pigs, cattle, camels, horses, sheep, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs or fish. While live animals can be a source of pathogen...s, all types of food can potentially be contaminated through contact with contaminated equipment, surfaces or environments. Proper cleaning and the prevention of cross-contamination are critical in the control of foodborne illnesses. The application of sound principles of environmental sanitation, personal hygiene and established food safety practices will reduce the likelihood that harmful pathogens will threaten the safety of the food supply, regardless of whether the food is sourced from intensive agriculture, small stakeholders or wildlife.
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Este documento apresenta uma orientação provisória aos laboratórios e diferentes atores envolvidos na realização de exames laboratoriais para o vírus COVID-19. Ele baseia-se parcialmente na orientação provisória para os exames laboratoriais do coronavírus da Síndrome Respiratória do Ori...ente Médio (MERS).1-6 As informações sobre a infecção em humanos pelo vírus COVID-19 estão evoluindo e a OMS continua a monitorar os acontecimentos e revisar as recomendações conforme necessário. Este documento será revisado conforme novas informações forem disponibilizadas.
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A brief guide for those using social media in humanitarian organizations
Groupe de référence du CPI pour la SMSPS dans les situations d'urgence
As countries like the United States pass temporary legislation to cushion the massive blow that is on the horizon that is about to hit many of their citizens – poor and not poor – it is important to think about the tools available to governments of low-income countries, what kind of preparations... they might consider, and what type of scal burden they face for social protection programs that can be nanced through their own budgets and grants from international development institutions like the World Bank.
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COVID-19 gibi bulaşıcı hastalıklar, çocukların büyüyüp geliştiği ortamlara zarar verebilir. Ailelerde, arkadaşlıklarda, günlük rutinlerde ve toplumda yaşanan aksamalar çocukların iyi olma hali, gelişimi ve korunması bakımından olumsuz sonuçlar doğurabilir. Ayrıca, COVID-19...un yayılmasını önlemek ve kontrol altına almak için uygulanan tedbirler, çocukları korumayla ilgili risklere maruz bırakabilir. Evlerde, kurum ve kuruluşlarda ve bölgelerde uygulanan karantina ve izolasyon tedbirlerinin çocuklar ve aileleri üzerinde olumsuz etkileri olabilir
Bu bilgilendirmenin amacı, COVID-19 pandemisi sırasında çocuk koruma risklerine daha iyi müdahale edebilmeleri için çocuk koruma uzmanlarına destek sunmaktır. 1. Bölümde COVID-19’un çocuklar açısından ortaya çıkmasına neden olabileceği olası çocuk koruma riskleri sunulmuştur. 2. Bölümde ise İnsani Yardım Hareketinde Çocuk Korumaya Yönelik Asgari Standartlar (2019) ile Kılavuz Notu: Bulaşıcı Hastalık Salgınları Sırasında Çocukların Korunması belgelerine uygun program seçenekleri sunulmuştur.
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This concept report was prepared by Faith for Earth Initiative in support of the efforts of the Government of Iceland to put forth a new resolution during UNEA 5.2 1
Accessed: 07.03.2020
A Review of Community Health Worker (CHW) knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to the sexual health of MSM, including existing training materials and manuals in Europe and neighbouring countries (D5.1)
Contract 2015 71 01 A behavioural survey for HIV/AIDS and assoc...iated infections and a survey and tailored training for community based health workers to facilitate access and improve the quality of prevention, diagnosis of HIV/AIDS, STI and viral hepatitis and health care services for men who have sex with men (MSM).
Pubic Health
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This paper provides case studies of several food product improvement policies from across the WHO European Region. The aim is to share country experience, assess the various merits of the different approaches, discuss lessons learned, and provide guidance for best practice that may be more widely ap...plicable across the European Region.
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BMJ Global Health2020;5:e002014. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002014
A “catastrophic” combination of drought and communities’ declining resilience has left an estimated 2.3 million people facing severe acute food insecurity – up from an estimate of 1.7 million people a month ago.
Communities across southern Africa have been affected by drought since late 2...018.
This year, large parts of southern and western Zambia received their lowest seasonal rainfall totals since at least 1981, the base year from which normal rainfall is benchmarked. At the same time, northern and eastern parts of the country were affected by flash floods and waterlogging, resulting in poor harvests.
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At present at least 2.2 billion people around the world have a vision impairment, of whom at least 1 billion have a vision impairment that could have been prevented or is yet to be addressed. The world faces considerable challenges in terms of eye care, including inequalities in the coverage and qua...lity of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation services; a shortage of trained eye care service providers; and poor integration of eye care services into health systems, among others. The World report on vision aims to address these challenges and galvanize action.
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