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- The Primary Care Innovator’s Handbook (2015)
- Etude de cas sur le fonctionnement des relais communautaires dans le cadre de la prévention de la sous-nutrition (2020)
- Community Health Workers in Sub Saharan Africa (2016)
- WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes (2018)
- WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes. Selected highlights (2018)
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- Community conversation kit: everyday conversations to protect community health against infectious diseases (2024)
- Medicines for HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections in low- and middle- income countries: forecasts of global demand for 2022–2026 (2024)
- Best practices for haemoglobin measurement in population-level anaemia surveys: Technical brief (January 2024) (2024)
- Peru: a primary health care case study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (2024)
- Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!): guidance to support country implementation, second edition. (2023)
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The community engagement hub is a platform for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, designed to help us put communities at the heart of what we do.
The hub offers a range of learning materials, tools and guidance to support you to mainstream community engagement and accountabili...
Declaration of Astana
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Global Conference on Primary Health Care From Alma-Ata towards universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals
Astana, Kazakhstan, 25 and 26 October 2018
المؤتمر العالمي المعني بالرعاية الصحية الأولية
انطلاقاً من ألما- آتا صوب تحقيق التغطية الصحية الشاملة
وأهداف التنمية المستدامة
Declaración de Astaná
recommended
Conferencia Mundial sobre Atención Primaria de Salud Desde Alma-Ata hacia la cobertura sanitaria universal y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible
Astaná (Kazajstán), 25 y 26 de octubre de 2018
WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes
recommended
The guideline uses state-of-the-art evidence to identify effective policy options to strengthen community health worker (CHW) programme performance through their proper integration in health systems and communities.
Successful delivery of services through CHWs requires evidence-based models for edu...
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide and causes a significant number of deaths in the South-East Asia Region. Nearly 200 000 new cases of cervical cancer occurred in SEA Region Member States in 2008, giving an incidence of almost 25 per 100...
The guide helps network managers and technical experts navigate the steps necessary for gathering, structuring, analyzing and reporting information needed to make strategic plans that improve sustainability and equity.
CHW Central is an online community of practice that brings together program managers, experts, practitioners, researchers, and supporters of CHW programs. The website is a virtual meeting place to share resources and experiences and to discuss and develop questions and ideas on CHW programs and poli...
Inequality of access to palliative care and symptom relief is one of the greatest disparities in global health care (1). Currently, there is avoidable suffering on a massive scale due to lack of access to palliative care and symptom relief in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) (1). Yet basic p...
Déclaration d’Astana
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Conférence internationale sur les soins de santé primaires d’Alma-Ata à la couverture sanitaire universelle et aux objectifs de développement durable , Astana, Kazakhstan, 25 et 26 octobre 2018
Астанинская декларация (Declarartion of Astana)
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Глобальная конференция по первичной медико-санитарной помощи:от Алма-Атинской декларации к всеобщему охвату
услугами здравоохранения и Целям в области у стой чи...
[Preface]. For more than forty years Primary Health Care (PHC) has been recognized as the cornerstone of an effective and responsive health system. The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 reaffirmed the right to the highest attainable level of health, with equity, solidarity and the right to health as its ...
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) showed
that global commitment and collective action
could significantly reduce the disease burdens of
three deadly communicable diseases: HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. The MDGs helped
focus efforts on these three deadly diseases
and leveraged ...
This study has two broad objectives. Thefirst objective was to assess the financialsustainability of CBHI schemes, focusing on schemes that have been operational for more than twoyears. The first componentprovidesquantitative descriptions of enrollment, utilization, and financial solvency of CBHI sc...
Community health workers (CHWs) play a significant role in Primary health Care due to their proximity to households, communities and the health care system. Many studies focus on CHWs and the work they do. However, few have examined their experiences and identity and how that might influence how the...
La publicación describe consejos prácticos con indicaciones claras y precisas para actuar ante una emergencia. Está destinado a cualquier persona que precise realizar acciones prioritarias a víctimas lesionadas o repentinamente enfermas. Sus páginas fueron escritas de una manera sencilla, evita...
Shortages of healthcare workers is detrimental to the health of communities, especially children. This paper describes the process of capacity building Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) to deliver integrated preventive and curative package of care of services to manage common childhood illness in h...
