The purpose of this pocketbook is to provide clear guidance on current best management practices for VHF across health-care facilities
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                The document will provide information for Ministries of Health and hospital sentinel sites on why and how to determine the denominator of at-risk children <5 years of age and rate of meningitis hospitalizations for a s
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                                        entinel hospital site conducting IB-VPD surveillance. Such a methodology is currently unavailable and this estimation is critical to enable interpretation of surveillance data, particularly pre- and post- vaccine introduction
                                    
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                                This document provides Technical content on ZIKV, its manifestations, complications, modes of transmission, and prevention measures to be used in answering frequently asked questions and conveying messages in information and communication materials, commun
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                                        ity talks, press conferences, etc.
                                    
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                                JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF NURSES IN AIDS CARE, Vol. 28, No. 2, March/April 2017, 186-198
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jana.2015.09.003
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                Funded by CBM: www.cbm.org
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                Conclusion: CBR has improved the quality of life, access to medical services, functional independence, autonomy, community inclusion, and empowerment of people with disabilities in LMICs in 
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                                        the Asia-Pacific region. However, challenges in the implementation of CBR remain. These include lack of awareness and understanding of CBR, and physical, environmental, socio-economical and personal barriers.
                                    
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                                Global Health. 2011 Apr 18;7:8. doi: 10.1186/1744-8603-7-8
Results: Currently, ‘new’health challenges and educational needs as a result of the globalisation process are discussed and linked to the
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                                         evolving term‘global health’. The lack of a common definition of this termcomplicates attempts to analyse global health in the field of education. The proposed GHE framework addresses these problems and presents a set of key characteristics of education in this field. The framework builds on the models of‘social determinants of health’and‘globalisation and health’and is oriented towards‘health for all’and‘health equity’. It provides an action-oriented construct for a bottom-up engagement with global health by the health workforce. Ten indicators are deduced for use in monitoring and evaluation.
                                    
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                                A practical and reflective guide for teachers .
This guide is packed with practical tools and advice for teachers wanting to embed global citizenship in their classrooms. Learn how to effectively b
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                                        ring a global lens into your teaching with our handy planning framework, participation methods, and tools to assess learning.
Develop your teaching practice with both innovative and tried-and-tested approaches. Help your learners ask questions, make connections, and take action as active global citizens
                                    
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                                The objective of this study is to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, sustainability, and impact of the tsunami response in Sri Lanka and Indonesia 
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                                        10 years later. A cross cutting theme of this study is the assessment of whether communities are now better prepared to respond to and cope with disaster.
Three key lessons for the future of humanitarian response are highlighted:
Lesson 1: Participation is the cornerstone of humanitarian response and recovery; 
Lesson 2: Partnership as a prerequisite for long-term change; 
Lesson 3: Creating momentum for risk reduction.
                                    
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                                Guide to national implementation of the Shanghai Declaration describes policy orientations and approaches that can unlock the transformative potent
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                                        ial of health promotion for sustainable development. This guide was developed to support country level implementation of the commitments and recommendations in the Shanghai Declaration.
                                    
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                                This is the sixth of our 11-paper supplement entitled “Community Health Workers at the Dawn of New Era”. Expectations of 
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                                        community health workers (CHWs) have expanded in recent years to encompass a wider array
of services to numerous subpopulations, engage communities to collaborate with and to assist health systems in responding to complex and sometimes intensive threats. In this paper, we explore a set of key considerations for training of CHWs in response to their enhanced and changing roles and provide actionable recommendations based on
current evidence and case examples for health systems leaders and other stakeholders to utilize.
                                    
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                                This is the ninth paper in our series, “Community Health Workers at the Dawn of a New Era”. Communi
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                                        ty health workers (CHWs) are in an intermediary position between the health system and the community. While this position provides CHWs with a good platform to improve community health, a major challenge in large-scale CHW programmes is the need for CHWs to establish and maintain benefcial relationships with both sets of actors, who may have diferent expectations and needs. This paper focuses on the quality of CHW relationships with actors at the local level of the national health system and with communities.
                                    
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                                The strategy recommends that AU Member States should enhance, where feasible, existing COVID-19 surveillance to include:
    Community-based surveillance to detect symptomatic cases early for tre
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                                        atment and to avert viral transmission;
    Sentinel surveillance in high-risk populations to detect and track both presymptomatic and asymptomatic cases; and
    Wastewater surveillance to monitor early environmental signs of virus transmission and identify communities where targeted interventions can be implemented to decrease transmission.
                                    
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                                Shortages of healthcare workers is detrimental to the health of communities, especially children. This paper describes the process of capacity building Co
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                                        mmunity Health Volunteers (CHVs) to deliver integrated preventive and curative package of care of services to manage common childhood illness in hard-to-reach communities in Bondo Subcounty, Kenya
                                    
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                                First edition, November 1997 | Revised July 2002