Este livro em formato prático é dirigido a médicos, enfermeiros e demais profissionais de saúde responsáveis pelo cuidado de crianças no primeiro nível de referência em países em desenvolvimento. Apresenta diretrizes clínicas atualizadas que se baseiam na revisão da evidência publicada d...isponível realizada por especialistas, tanto para o cuidado hospitalar como ambulatorial em hospitais pequenos, com serviços básicos de laboratório e medicamentos essenciais e de baixo custo disponíveis. Em alguns contextos, essas diretrizes podem ser utilizadas em centros de saúde maiores (postos de saúde de referência com sala de emergência), nos quais um pequeno número de crianças doentes podem ser internadas para cuidados mais intensivo
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WHO/ESCAP Training Manual on Disability Statistics | This training manual intends to enhance the understanding of the ICF-based approach to disability measurement. It provides an overview of the ICF framework as well as guidelines on how to operationalize the underlying concepts of functioning and ...disability into data collection, dissemination and analysis.
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The mental health of women not only adversely affects them, but its impact on their
developing infant is also severe. If the ability of women to take care of their baby is
compromised, the survival and development of the infant is jeopardized. Maternal
depression in resource-constrained settings ...is linked directly to lower infant birth
weight, higher rates of malnutrition and stunting, higher rates of diarrhoeal disease,
infectious illness and hospital admission and reduced completion of recommended
schedules of immunization in children. It also adversely affects physical, cognitive,
social, behavioural and emotional development of children (1).
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Рамочная конвенция ВОЗ по борьбе против табака и руководящие принципы для ее осуществления обеспечивают основы для борьбы против табака в странах. ВОЗ ввела меры M...POWER, изложенные в РКБТ ВОЗ, для содействия осуществлению положений конвенции на национальном уровне с целью уменьшения спроса на табак. Эти брошюры кратко формулируют основные данные и рекомендации в отношении каждой из этих мер.
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Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness (IMAI)
July 2008
Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness (IMAI)
July 2008
Guide for coordinators and data collectors - The WHO Operational Package for Assessing, Monitoring and Evaluating Country Pharmaceutical Situations is intended as a useful tool for researchers, policy-makers, planners and others who need to use standardized measurement tools to gather data and other... information. In addition, the operational package can be used by international agencies and donors, by professional groups and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
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Joint WHO/ILO guidelines on post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to prevent HIV infection.
This interagency report provides recommendations for assuring quality of medicines during key activities of country-level procurement agencies, namely prequalification of pharmaceutical products and manufacturers; purchase of pharmaceutical products; storage of pharmaceutical products; and distribut...ion of pharmaceutical products.
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Extract from report of GACVS meeting of 29-30 November 2006, published in the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record of 19 January 2007
Improving the management of childhood tuberculosis within national tuberculosis programmes: research priorities based on a literature review
WHO/HTM/TB/2007.381, 07.02