Este documento resume as orientações provisórias da OMS para a vigilância global de novas infecções pelo coronavírus 2019-nCoV (COVID-19). A OMS continuará atualizando essas orientações à medida que novas informações sobre 2019-nCoV estiverem disponíveis. Este documento fornece orienta...ções aos Estados-Membros sobre a implementação da vigilância global de 2019-nCoV.
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Las prácticas de prevención y control de infecciones necesitan implementarse para garantizar la seguridad de los trabajadores de salud y pacientes en establecimientos de salud, es fundamental prevenir la contaminación cruzada y contener la propagación del COVID 19. • Al día de esta publicaci...n, están recomendadas las siguientes precauciones para el cuidado del paciente con sospecha o confirmación de COVID-19‡: o Para cualquier caso sospechoso o confirmado de COVID-19: precauciones estándares + contacto + precauciones en la transmisión por gotitas o Para cualquier caso sospechoso o confirmado de COVID-19 y procedimientos generadores de aerosoles: precauciones estándares + contacto + transmisión aérea (aerosoles o núcleo de gotitas)
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Esta nota de orientación elaborada por el UNICEF explica cómo el sector del agua, el saneamiento y la higiene puede aplicar medidas de prevención y control de las infecciones en los hogares y las comunidades. Se centra en la reducción de la exposición a las enfermedades en entornos comunitarios... y espacios públicos vulnerables, así como en la transmisión de enfermedades en los hogares y entornos comunitarios con pacientes y contactos. Este dossier está disponible en inglés, español y francés aquí.
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Asthma can be a serious disease, but if you understand
the disease and take the right medication to control it, you
should have no problems or symptoms due to your asthma,
even when you are pregnant. To be free from asthma
attacks, you should also check your lung function and use
an action plan... if any symptoms occur.
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The document outlines a comprehensive package of interventions for the rehabilitation of cardiopulmonary conditions, emphasizing assessments, treatments, and support mechanisms aimed at improving patients' quality of life and functional ability, provided by a multidisciplinary team.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 11(2): e0005356 -Published: February 23, 2017 21 pp
Eurosurveillance. Vol. 23 (2018) Issue 9 (10 May 2018)
Researchers are devising a clinical-trial protocol to test three medicines in Africa's latest outbreak
Nature doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06132-7
Primary care - Putting people first: This chapter describes how primary care brings promotion and prevention, cure and care together in a safe, effective and socially productive way at the interface between the population and the health system.
These materials are designed for use at a training course on medical preparedness and response for a nuclear or radiological emergency. They contain a wide range of lectures and supporting materials, which cover the basic topics and more specific areas of medical preparedness... and
response.
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MEDBOX has gathered a selection of over 60 African hits from different countries into a play list with the aim of raising awareness on the diverse ways to fight COVID-19 in addition to a COVID-19 Toolbox https://www.covid19box.org with all the up to date information on the pandemic. Feel free to pa...ss it onto your contacts, the poster can be printed and used in different settings such as cultural centers, hospitals and refugee camps. To the COVID-19 African hist playlist visit: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQvyjafXneiihYMqxMmrQLD_iwXvi3eiT.
Enjoy empowerment and rhythm! Spread the music, not the virus!
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Lo que madres, padres y educadores deben saber: cómo proteger a hijas, hijos y alumnos
Es muy importante que en situaciones como la que atraviesa el mundo con la pandemia por el COVID-19, busques información veraz y evites compartir datos que no están confirmados.
En esta guía, además encont...rarás sugerencias sobre cómo explicar la pandemia a niñas y niños pequeños y algunas formas para proteger sus emociones.
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A new formulation of a drug to prevent excessive bleeding following childbirth could save thousands of women’s lives in low- and lower-middle-income countries, according to a study led by the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with MSD for Mothers and Ferring Pharmaceuticals.
Curren...tly WHO recommends oxytocin as the first-choice drug for preventing excessive bleeding after childbirth. Oxytocin, however, must be stored and transported at 2–8 degrees Celsius, which is hard to do, in many countries, depriving many women of access to this lifesaving drug. When they can obtain it, the drug may be less effective because of heat exposure.
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This collection of posters are intended for health care workers, biomedical engineers and staff of health facilities in charge of caring, cleaning, decontaminating and sterilizing respiratory medical equipment in hospitals and health facilities. They include checklists to ensure the optimal infectio...n prevention and control during their use and between patients.
They describe the procedures to follow (Checklists) to clean, decontaminate and sterilize different respiratory devices:
Oxygen concentrators,
Non-invasive mechanical ventilation equipment: High flow nasal cannula, BiPAP/CPAP,
Mechanical ventilators,
Pulse oximeters and monitors.
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Lancet Public Health 2022 Published Online October 25, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00197-9
Executive summary
In the past few decades, major public health advances have happened in Europe, with drastic decreases in premature mortality and a life expectancy increase of almost 9 years ...since 1980. European countries have some of the best health-care systems in the world. However,Europe is challenged with unprecedented and overlapping crises that are detrimental to human health and livelihoods and threaten adaptive capacity, including the
COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fastest-growing migrant crisis since World War 2, population displacement, environmental degradation, and deepening inequalities. Compared with pre-industrial times, the mean average European surface air temperature increase has been almost 1°C higher than the average global temperature increase, and 2022 was the hottest European summer on record.
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Aktueller Stand und Handlungsempfehlungen für Hospiz- und Palliativversorger.
In dieser Broschüre finden Sie die Ergebnisse einer Studie und die
aus Interviews von Expertinnen abgeleiteten Handlungsempfehlungen. Die erfassten Daten beziehen sich auf Menschen mit türkischem und arabischem Migra...tionshintergrund, die Handlungsempfehlungen sind jedoch nicht spezifisch für diese Gruppe, sondern können vermutlich für alle Patientinnen mit Migrationshintergrund und letztlich für alle vernachlässigten Patientengruppen gelten.
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