The Minimum Standards for Protection Mainstreaming are a set of international standards designed to provide practical assistance to humanitarian actors to mainstream protection in the assessment, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian programmes, projects and activities. ...All humanitarian actors are expected to mainstream protection in their humanitarian assistance activities as a component of a broader commitment to quality and accountability in humanitarian response.
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It describes and analyzes the theoretical-practical incidences of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation, including but not limited to the Information Science framework. Besides, it aims to outline an understanding of these three concepts based on 16 arrangements intercon...nected according to their intentionality.
Conclusions: We highlight that the complexity that permeates the various fields in the present situation is due to the difficulty of reaching a consensus on the semantic definition of the concepts of information, misinformation, and its disambiguations since these concepts have various properties.
Also available in: Portuguese
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Planning and Implementation Training. Myanmar
This training module on resilient development planning in Myanmar consists of a 2.5 hours session, at the end of which, the participants will:
a) Have a common understanding on development and disaster linkages.
b) Be able to identify the ...various factors which contribute towards disaster risk including climate change in Myanmar.
c) Be able to identify measures for risk resilient development process in Myanmar.
The three main learning units include:
1. Disaster and development linkages.
2. Components and drivers of disaster risk including climate change.
3. Mainstreaming disaster and climate risk reduction into development.
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Adapting community-led approaches . Three out of 10 people in urban areas do not use improved sanitation facilities, and one out of 10 people are forced to practise open defecation. Still higher proportions do not have access to safely managed sanitation facilities, where the fecal sludge
is contai...ned and either left in situ or safely emptied, transported, and delivered to a treatment plant.
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Management of Health Crisis as a result of Earthquake in Province D.I. Yogyakarta and Central Java in Indonesia on May 27th, 2006
Reference Guide Version 2. Revised. The Nutrition Program Design Assistant is a tool to help organizations design the nutrition component of their community-based maternal and child health, food security, or other development program. The tool focuses on prevention and also provides guidance on recu...perative approaches that are needed when there is a high prevalence of acute malnutrition
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Rev. Panam Salud Publica. 2017;41:e153. doi: 10.26633/RPSP.2017.153
Worldwide, over 6 million people are infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, the pathogen that causes Chagas disease (CD). In the Americas, CD creates the greatest burden in disability-adjusted life years of any parasitic infection. In Co...lombia, 437 000 people are infected with T. cruzi, of whom 131 000 suffer from cardiomyopathy. Colombia’s annual costs for treating patients with advanced CD reach US$ 175 016 000. Although timely etiological treatment can significantly delay or prevent development of cardiomyopathy—and costs just US$ 30 per patient—fewer than 1% of people with CD in Colombia and elsewhere receive it.
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Fornecer recomendações sobre manejo de cadáveres no contexto do novo coronavírus (COVID-19) em locais de assistência à saúde. Essas recomendações são preliminares e estão sujeitas à revisão conforme novas evidências forem disponibilizadas.
National Action Plan: Programmatic Management of Drug Resistance Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis Control Indonesia
El ámbito de aplicación incluye a todos los trabajadores involucrados en trabajos de asistencia sanitaria (comprendidos los desarrollados en aislamiento, traslados, labores de limpieza, eliminación de residuos,etc.), así como los de transportes aéreo,marítimo y ferrocarril de ...larga distancia o internacional, los colectivos de rescate (bomberos, salvamento marítimo, policía, guardia civil, etc.), atención al público, hostelería, sector servicios, etc. Dado que el contacto con el virus puede afectar a entornos sanitarios y no sanitarios, corresponde a las empresas evaluar el riesgo de exposición y seguir las recomendaciones que sobre el particular emita el servicio de prevención,siguiendo las pautas y recomendaciones formuladas por las autoridades sanitarias.
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Orientação provisória. 2 de setembro de 2020
Questão clínica: Qual é o papel dos corticosteroides sistêmicos no tratamento de pacientes com COVID-19? Público-alvo: O público-alvo consiste principalmente de médicos, seguido por tomadores de decisão na área de saúde.
A long and healthy life for all South Africans
Introdução
Capítulo A.9
Edição em Português
Editor: Flávio Dias Silva.
Tradutores: Letícia Tomaz Oliveira, Luciano da Silva Quadros
El Plan de Respuesta Humanitaria tiene como objetivo llegar a 2,6 millones de personas vulnerables hasta finales del año, que representa un número limitado de las personas en necesidad, e incluye 1,2 millones de niñas, niños y adolescentes. Para alcanzar estos objetivos, las Naciones Unidas y su...s socios requieren $223 millones de dólares. El Plan tiene sus fundamentos en la estrategia de escalamiento que se inició en octubre de 2018 por Naciones Unidas para responder a las necesidades humanitarias y de otras iniciativas de respuestas implementadas por otros actores humanitarios. Este Plan permitirá fortalecer las capacidades operacionales de los actores humanitarios y poner las bases para alcanzar una población meta más amplia en 2020. El Plan será actualizado de acuerdo a información disponible, incluyendo nuevas evaluaciones.
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