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Learning about Diabetes - Diabetes care Handouts - Spanish

Learning about Diabetes, Inc. (2024) CC2

The website "Learning About Diabetes" provides easy-to-understand educational materials for people with diabetes and their families. It focuses on improving diabetes self-management through visually engaging resources, such as illustrated guides, videos, and tools. The content covers topics like blo... more

How to Use a Metered-Dose Inhaler with a Valved Holding Chamber (Spacer) - english version

American Lung Association American Lung Association (2022) CC2

The document is an instructional guide in english on how to use a metered-dose inhaler (MDI) with a spacer. It provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for using the device effectively to manage respiratory conditions like asthma. The guide emphasizes the importance of correct technique, prepara... more

How to Use a Metered-Dose Inhaler (MDI) with a Spacer - Somali Version

American Lung Association American Lung Association (2022) CC2

The document is an instructional guide in somali on how to use a metered-dose inhaler (MDI) with a spacer. It provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for using the device effectively to manage respiratory conditions like asthma. The guide emphasizes the importance of correct technique, preparat... more

How to Use a Metered-Dose Inhaler (MDI) with a Spacer - Burmese version

American Lung Association American Lung Association (2022) CC2

The document is an instructional guide in Burmese on how to use a metered-dose inhaler (MDI) with a spacer. It provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for using the device effectively to manage respiratory conditions like asthma. The guide emphasizes the importance of correct technique, prepara... more

How to Use a Metered-Dose Inhaler (MDI) with a Spacer - arabic version

American Lung Association American Lung Association (2022) CC2

The document is an instructional guide in arabic on how to use a metered-dose inhaler (MDI) with a spacer. It provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for using the device effectively to manage respiratory conditions like asthma. The guide emphasizes the importance of correct technique, preparat... more

Como usar um inalador dosimetrado com uma câmara de retenção valvulada (espaçador) e máscara

American Lung Association American Lung Association (2022) CC2

The document is an instructional guide in Portuguese on how to use a metered-dose inhaler (MDI) with a spacer. It provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for using the device effectively to manage respiratory conditions like asthma. The guide emphasizes the importance of correct technique, prep... more

Cómo usar un inhalador de dosis medida con cámara de retención con válvula (espaciador)

American Lung Association American Lung Association (2022) CC2

The document is an instructional guide in Spanish on how to use a metered-dose inhaler (MDI) with a spacer. It provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for using the device effectively to manage respiratory conditions like asthma. The guide emphasizes the importance of correct technique, prepara... more

Jinsi ya Kutumia Kivuta Hewa Chenye Kipimo cha Dawa Kilicho na Chemba Maalum (Kishikilia Dawa) na Barakoa

American Lung Association American Lung Association (2022) CC2

The document is an instructional guide by the American Lung Association on how to properly use a metered-dose inhaler (MDI) with a valved holding chamber (spacer) and mask, specifically in Swahili. It provides step-by-step directions for preparing and using the inhaler to ensure effective medication... more

How to Use a Flexhaler Dry Powder Inhaler

American Lung Association American Lung Association (2022) CC2

The document provides step-by-step instructions for using a Flexhaler dry powder inhaler effectively. It emphasizes proper inhalation technique, including priming the device, loading a dose, and breathing correctly. It also advises users to rinse their mouth after use and highlights the importance o... more

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) - Practice Essentials

Mosenifar, Z.; Brawerman, R.; Brawerman, G.; et al. Medscape (2024) CC2

The article provides a comprehensive overview of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), covering its causes, symptoms, diagnostic methods, classification of severity, treatment options, and management strategies, with a focus on risk factors, clinical features, and therapeutic approaches such... more

How Asthma is treated

COU Family TV Youtube (2022) CC3

Video: How asthma is treated.

Inhaler Techniques - lagos acacia 2018

lagos acacia (2018) CC2

This video is meant to train the public on how to use some of the devices for delivery of asthma medications.

Severe and Difficult Asthma: Diagnosis and Management—Challenges for a Low‐Resource Environment

Bush, A. Springer Link (2021) CC2

Severe and difficult asthma in a low- and middle-income country (LMIC) can relate to lack of availability of basic medications; potentially reversible factors such as poor adherence or comorbidities such as obesity inhibiting a good response to treatment; and (rarely) true severe, therapy-resistant ... more

Urbanisation and asthma in low-income and middleincome countries: a systematic review of the urbanrural differences in asthma prevalence

Rodriguez, A.; Brickley, E.; Rodrigues, L.; et al. (2019) CC2

Urbanisation has been associated with temporal and geographical differences in asthma prevalence in low-income and middle-income countries (lMics). however, little is known of the mechanisms by which urbanisation and asthma are associated, perhaps explained by the methodological approaches used to a... more

Депрессия – плохое настроение или уже депрессия?

Ärztlichen Zentrums für Qualität in der Medizin (ÄZQ) (2023) CC

Фазы плохого настроения и подавленного состояния знакомы каждому. Это такая же часть человеческой жизни, как и периоды счастья. Но не всегда легко распознать, когд�... more

Child Protection - Fact sheet

Save the Children (2007) CC

Children in every country, every culture and at every social level face various forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence1. The abuse takes place at home, in school, in institutions, at work, in the community, in armed conflict and natural disasters. Much violence against children, such ... more

Tools to thrive - Identifying feelings

Friendship Bench (2020) CC

Feelings just are. They are neither good nor bad. Emotions are a natural reaction to a situation, a person, an environment. We cannot not have feelings. The word “bad” when referring to feelings is a inaccurate description because there is no such thing as a bad feeling. Difficult feelings do ... more

Tools to thrive - Tracing feelings

Friendship Bench (2020) CC

Let’s take feelings one step further. Feelings stem from experience. “Tracing feelings back” means tracing an uncomfortable feeling back to the source: an argument, a disappointment, a change, an event or situation. Doing this allows you keep you feelings in check, helps you learn about your... more

Surveillance data for human leishmaniasis indicate the need for a sustainable action plan for its management and control, Greece, 2004 to 2018

Tzani M., Barrasa, A., Vakali, A. et al. Euro Surveillance (2020) CC

Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease caused by intracellular protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania (Trypanosomatidae family); it is endemic in more than 98 countries worldwide [1]. Visceral (VL) and cutaneous (CL) leishmaniasis are the most common forms of the disease. VL causes a systemic dis... more