Nabila El-Bassel, PhD Columbia University
@NabilaElBassel #CUGH2018
Accessed: 26.09.2019
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Approved by the Federal Government on October 20, 2016
Towards attaining the highest standard Health.
Временные рекомендации
19 марта 2020 г.
Настоящий документ предназначен для министров здравоохранения, руководителей органов здравоохранения и других ответствен...ных руководителей. Цель документа – предоставить методические рекомендации по организации оказания помощи пациентам с COVID-19 в условиях высокой нагрузки на систему здравоохранения, а тажке по обеспечению доступа пациентов с COVID-19 к неотложной медицинской помощи без ущерба для решения других задач в области здравоохранения и при обеспечении безопасности медицинского персонала.
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Basic psychosocial support skills are at the core of any Mental Health and PsychosocialSupport (MHPSS) intervention. Such skills are also indispensable for many others involvedin the COVID-19 response, whether they identify as an MHPSS provider or not. Thus, this guide is meant for all COVID-19 resp...onders.
It is available in different languages: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Amharic, Greek, Chinese, Bahasa Indonesia, Russian
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Infection prevention and control practices need to be implemented to guarantee the safety of healthcare workers and patients in healthcare settings, it is fundamental to prevent cross contamination and containment of spread of COVID 19. As of the day of this publication, the following precautions ar...e recommended for the care of patients with suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19: - For any suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19: standard + contact + droplet precautions. -For any suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19 and Aerosol Generated Procedure: standard + contact + airborne precautions. - The results of the application of this evaluation tool, in addition to other tools, will provide an overview regarding compliance with the activities of prevention and control of infections associated with provision of care in acute healthcare services in a health setting, without making judgments about the individual risk of patients, nor on particular cases. By its nature, this tool is only an external diagnostic to support IPC professionals and managers to assess the gaps and take corrective measures. To provide a tool for assessment of infection prevention and control practices in isolation areas in acute healthcare settings in the context of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). These recommendations are preliminary and subject to review as new evidence becomes available.
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A learning resource for facilitators, parents, caregivers, and persons with cerebral palsy | Version 1 - Released March 2008
Oferecer atendimento de saúde especializado para o tratamento de pacientes críticos com síndrome respiratória aguda grave (SRAG), encaminhados principalmente de unidades de saúde onde a capacidade das unidades de terapia intensiva tem sido sobrecarregada pelo alto volume de pacientes. A estrutu...ra flexível de uma Equipe de Saúde de Emergência para SRAG também permite a configuração de leitos para tartar pacientes gravemente doentes que precisem de oxigenoterapia. PRINCIPAIS CARACTERÍSTICAS: Equipes de Saúde de Emergência para SRAG utilizam estruturas portáteis que variam de tendas a contêineres. Eles também podem ser implantados dentro de estruturas fechadas alternativas usando módulos pré-fabricados. Unidades de Saúde de Emergência para SRAG podem oferecer até 30 leitos para pacientes críticos ou gravemente doentes (10 leitos para casos críticos com suspeita de COVID-19, 10 leitos para casos críticos com COVID-19 confirmada, e 10 leitos para casos graves). Unidades de Saúde de Emergência para SRAG possuem um centro de comando para a coordenação das operações do dia a dia. Esse é um sistema modular que pode ser expandido conforme necessário, adicionando unidades de 10 leitos, o que aumenta sua resposta conforme as necessidades e os recursos existentes.
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Over the period 2015 to 2019, scaling up a package of selected nutrition-specific and nutrition sensitive interventions to cover 90 per cent of Sudan would:
- Reduce the under-five mortality rate to 49/1,000 live births
- Reduce the prevalence of stunting to 25 per cent
- Reduce the ...prevalence of wasting (global acute malnutrition – GAM) to 6 per cent
- Increase exclusive breastfeeding to 63 per cent
- Reduce iron deficiency anaemia among pregnant women to 26 per cent.
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Latin America and the Caribbean is characterized by a matrix of social inequality whose axes —such as
socioeconomic stratum, gender, stage in the life cycle, ethnicity and race, territory, disability, and immigration
status— create multiple, often concurrent, situations of exclusion and discri...mination. The coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) pandemic has exacerbated wide social gaps and it is no coincidence that Latin America
and the Caribbean is one of the regions in which the health and socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic have
been the most severe, which shows that the costs of inequality are unsustainable
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Summary of research into the consequences of the Ebola outbreak for children and communities in Liberia and Sierra Leone