This paper poses two applications of Catholic social teaching’s concepts of subsidiarity and participation to academic community engagement. The first pertains to the very general use of the term community. The second refers to a distinction between reciprocity and collaboration.
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IPCHS is a new concept for Zambia and has been implemented in limited proportions. The WHO global strategy on IPCHS reported that in Zambia there is limited focus on integrated community case management for malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea to reduce child mortality.
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The Ministry of Health (MoH) in Zambia aims at attaining Universal Health Coverage in which all Zambians have access to essential health services. But, despite the Zambian health sector implementing the Sexual Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child Adolescent and Nutrition (SRMNCAH&N) services, the sector continues to face challenges and needs to continue devising solutions to address them.
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Chapter 16: Managing medicine selection - Key topics: the concept of essential medicines; selection of essential medicines and development of essential medicines lists, formularies, and treatment guidelines. - The rationale for selecting a limited number of essential medicines is that it may lead ...to better supply, more rational use, and lower costs.
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Mettre en œuvre la gestion des risques
associés aux soins en établissement de santé
Des concepts à la pratique
Become familiar with One Health, a promising concept, and the effective solutions it provides for urgent health problems.
Researchers focused on mental health of conflict-affected children are increasingly interested in the concept of resilience. Knowledge on resilience may assist in developing interventions aimed at improving positive outcomes or reducing negative outcomes, termed promotive or protective interventions....
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Provides a glossary of terms for healthcare providers to better understand the concepts within trauma-informed integrated care.
in Tackling the Migration Crisis under the safe third country and first country of asylum concept. Accessed at 5 April 2016
An introduction to Coordinated Needs Assessment in 6 parts:
Part 1: Key concepts
Part 2: Link to Decision-making
Part 3: The Framework
Part 4: The Good Enough Principle
Part 5: The assessment cycle
Part 6: Basic Principles
A training tutorial for healthcare professionals
This ECDC tutorial presents the fundamental concepts of personal protective equipment (PPE) and barrier nursing to support preparedness in hospitals across Europe. It provides practical information on the proper use of PPE at the point of care, inclu...ding technical requirements and procurement aspects
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Le présent texte permettra aux lecteurs de comprendre certains éléments qui sous-tendent les concepts de la responsabilité sociale et de l’imputabilité des facultés de médecine en regard de leur réponse aux besoins des sociétés qu’elles doivent servir et de prendre connaissance de quel...ques-uns des facteurs qui déterminent le niveau d’adaptation des curriculums aux besoins de la population/communauté.
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For the purposes of this review, we are not setting out what exactly implementing the concept of
planetary health at a national level should or could look like. This is a complicated and nuanced aspect
of moving the concept of planetary health to action that will be highly dependent on the unique ...needs
of each country. We are, however, trying to encourage progress in this regard by identifying openings
that could be leveraged to speed the uptake of the concept of planetary health.
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The extensive use of natural resources threatens to exceed the carrying capacity of the Earth. The concept of a
circular economy offers an avenue to sustainable growth, good health and decent jobs, while saving the environment
and its natural resources. Further, the change from a linear economy (t...ake, make, dispose) to a circular economy (renew, remake, share) is expected to support significantly the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs), particularly SDG 12 on responsible consumption and production.
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This document aims to assist policy‑makers, health care providers and researchers to understand key concepts in health ethics and to identify basic ethical questions surrounding health and health care. It illustrates the challenges of applying ethical principles to global public health and outline...s practical strategies for dealing with those challenges.
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Series on Disability-Inclusive Development. This publication introduces the key concepts for disability-inclusive development and highlights practical examples by CBM, to contribute to the dialogue on disability-inclusive development
The key question addressed in this article is social inclusion, as an opposite concept of social exclusion. The author provides a historical of social inclusion/exclusion terminology. Further, some of the principles of social inclusion are presented. In the end, the article focuses on the role of ed...ucation as a very important and useful tool for ensuring social inclusion.Social inclusion through education, in particular through vocational education, considered by the author as the only way towards sustainable development of Albanian society.
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This review of the IFRC support to the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society response to the 2012 cholera outbreak provides ideas and concepts to promote a more coherent and evidence based rationale on how to make more effective use of IFRC global assets to stop, control, mitigate and respond to cholera ep...idemics. No fit and healthy person should die from cholera – that should be the indicator of success.
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TOWARDS 30 YEARS OF THE BEIJING DECLARATION AND PLATFORM FOR ACTION: UNITE TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Concept Note
The Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook draws together a wide range of knowledge and expertise on the concept of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) to better guide policy makers, programme managers, sectoral experts, academics, extensionists, as well as practitioners to make the agricultural sectors (...crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry) more sustainable and productive, while responding to the challenges of climate change and food security.
This new fully revised digital platform edition of the CSA Sourcebook reflects new scientific insights as well as valuable CSA implementation experience obtained since the publication of the first edition. Five new modules were added: Climate change adaptation and mitigation, Integrated production systems, Supporting rural producers with knowledge of Climate-Smart Agriculture, The role of Gender in Climate-Smart Agriculture, and The theory of change for the CSA approach: a guide to evidence-based implementation at the country level.
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Today is the launch of the Amsterdam City Doughnut, which takes the global concept of the Doughnut and turns it into a tool for transformative action in the city of Amsterdam.