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La enfermedad de Chagas en El Salvador, evolución histórica y desafíos para el control

Organización Panamericana de la Salud OPS (2010) C2

[Presentación] El presente libro, elaborado por integrantes de múltiples generaciones de técnicos e investigadores salvadoreños dedicados a la enfermedad de Chagas, refleja claramente su actual situación epidemiológica, la evolución histórica de la misma y los retos y perspectivas que la... more

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FINANCIAMENTO DOS SISTEMAS DE SAÚDE O caminho para a cobertura universal

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2010) C_WHO

Promoting and protecting health is essential to human welfare and sustained economic and social development. This was recognized more than 30 years ago by the Alma-Ata Declaration signatories, who noted that Health for All would contribute both to a better quality of life and also to global peace a... more

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The Abuja Declaration: Ten Years On

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2010) CC

Follow up to the so called Abuja Declaration ten years later: In April 2001, heads of state of African Union countries met and pledged to set a target of allocating at least 15% of their annual budget to improve the health sector. At the same time, they urged donor countries to "fulfil the yet to be... more

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Financing Maternal and Child Health—What Are the Limitations in Estimating Donor Flows and Resource Needs?

Schäferhoff, M.; Schrade, C.; Yamey G. PLOS Med (2010) CC

Marco Schäferhoff and colleagues critique funding estimates for the maternal and child health Millennium Development Goals, and make recommendations for improving the tracking of financing flows and estimating the costs of scaling up interventions for mothers and children.

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WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care

World Health Organization WHO (2009) C_WHO

First Global Patient Safety Challenge Clean Care is Safer Care The WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care provide health-care workers (HCWs), hospital administrators and health authorities with a thorough review of evidence on hand hygiene in health care and specific recommendations to impro... more

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Quality Assessment Guidebook: A guide to assessing health services for adolescent clients.

World Health Organization (WHO) (2009) C_WHO

Over the past few decades and throughout the world, the landscape of adolescent health has been altered dramatically. Currently, the total population of adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 years is 1.2 billion – the largest generation of young people in history. The vast majority of adolesce... more

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Global Health Watch

Global Health Watch Zedbooks (2009) CC

The power relations around global decisions which shape population health can be changed through new alliances and information flows. The Democratising Global Health Governance Initiative, of which WHO Watch is a project, is designed to contribute to improved population health (and health equity) th... more

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Real-time Evaluations of Humanitarian Action

John Cosgrave, Ben Ramalingam and Tony Beck ALNAP; Overseas Development Institute (2009) CC

An ALNAP Guide. Pilot Version. This pilot guide is intended to help evaluation managers to commission and oversee, and team leaders to conduct, RTEs of humanitarian operational responses. Drawing on a synthesis of existing good practices, it sets out a flexible approach that can be adapted to a var... more

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Guide for Implementing the Monitoring-Training-Planning (MTP) Approach to Build Skills for Pharmaceutical Management

Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus Program Management Sciences for Health; USAID (2009) CC

In the mid-1980s, recognizing the limitations of traditional training and that the knowledge and skills acquired are not necessarily applied back in the workplace, MSH developed the Monitoring‐Training-Planning (MTP) approach to assist the Ecuadorian Ministry of Health to implement its Child Survi... more

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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Standards for Schools in Low-cost Settings
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World Health Organization WHO (2009) C2

These guidelines deal specifically with water, sanitation and hygiene, and are designed to be used in schools in low-cost settings in low- and medium-resource countries to: • assess prevailing situations and plan for required improvements; • develop and reach essential safety standards as a f... more

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Epilepsy Management At Primary Health Level In Rural China

World Health Organization WHO (2009) C_WHO

A Global Campaign Against Epilepsy Demonstration Project

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WHO Monographs On Selected Medicinal Plants - Volume 4
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World Health Organization WHO (2009) C_WHO

• provide scientific information on the safety, efficacy, and quality control/ quality assurance of widely used medicinal plants, in order to facilitate their appropriate use in Member States; • provide models to assist Member States in developing their own mono- graphs or formularies for these... more