Patient Safety is a health care discipline that emerged with the evolving complexity in health care systems and the resulting rise of patient harm in health care facilities. It aims to prevent and reduce risks, errors and harm that occur to patients... during provision of health care. A cornerstone of the discipline is continuous improvement based on learning from errors and adverse events.
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In the last quarter century, several projects emerged to reform mental health services in Latin American and Caribbean countries. Some did not survive the difficulties that inevitably arise in processes of change, and ended up disappearing before th...e intended changes could be introduced. Others, however, as shown in this publication, were able to overcome difficulties and meet intended objectives, effectively transforming the structure and quality of services. All these projects, including the many that did not survive, were part of one of the richest experiences in the transformation of mental health care worldwide - the experience of mental health reform in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Lancet Planet Health 2022;6: e760–68
The emergence of COVID-19 has drawn the attention of health researchers sharply back to the role that food systems can play in generating human disease burden. But emerging pandemic threats are just one dimens...ion of the complex relationship between agriculture and infectious disease, which is evolving rapidly, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) that are undergoing rapid food system transformation. This changing relationship is examined through four current disease issues.
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La sécurité des patients est un domaine des soins de santé qui a émergé avec la complexité croissante des systèmes de santé et la hausse des préjudices causés aux patients au sein des établissements de santé. Il s’agit de prévenir et ...de réduire les risques, les erreurs et les préjudices causés aux patients dans le cadre de soins de santé. La sécurité des patients repose en premier lieu sur l’amélioration continue, grâce à des enseignements tirés des erreurs et des manifestations indésirables.
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Disasters and public health emergencies can stress health care systems to the breaking point and disrupt delivery of vital medical services. During such crises, hospitals and long-term care faciliti...es may be without power; trained staff, ambulances, medical supplies and beds could be in short supply; and alternate care facilities may need to be used. Planning for these situations is necessary to provide the best possible health care during a crisis and, if needed, equitably allocate scarce resources
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Esta guía ofrece al personal de salud y a los integrantes del
Comité Operativo de Emergencia recomendaciones prácticas
para facilitar su trabajo en los preparativos para desastres.
Presenta los principales aspectos para elaborar un Plan Local ...de
Emergencia para el sector salud, un instrumento básico en los
preparativos del sector, que se realiza mediante un proceso alta-
mente participativo entre los actores del sector salud y la comunidad.
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Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication is an approach to communicating effectively during emergencies. These principles are used by public health professionals and public information officers to pr...ovide information that helps individuals, stakeholders, and entire communities make the best possible decisions for themselves and their loved ones. CERC recognizes that during emergencies, we work under impossible time constraints and must accept the imperfect nature of our choices. CERC draws from lessons learned during public health emergencies and research in the fields of public health and emergency risk communication.
The CERC program consists of 1) training, 2) resources, and 3) shared learning.
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Humanitarian Health Action - Learning and Training: Preparedness and risk management in health emergencies.
Accessed 6 March 2019.
Since May 2019, Confirmation of 4 new emergence of type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV2) in Bambari (2) and Bimbo (2) health districts without any genetic link between them and other known viruses ; Bambari Health District: CAF-RS4-BAM-19-058, o...nset of paralysis: May 02, 2019. 07 positive contacts with the same genetic link. Community samples CAF-RS4-BAM-19-058CC14 and CAF-RS4-BAM-19-058CC17 positive, genetically related to each other but not genetically linked to the CAF-RS4-BAM-19-058 index case (new emergence)
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Accessed: 21.04.2020
La llegada de COVID-19 a Colombia motivó la declaración de Emergencia Social, Económica y Ecológica y el establecimiento del aislamiento preventivo obligatorio. El aumento de casos activos en el país resalta la importanc...ia de implementar acciones que reduzcan la probabilidad de contagio en los espacios donde se prestan servicios a la población en general, y, con mayor énfasis, a las poblaciones vulnerables como refugiados y migrantes.
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COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2 (2019-nCoV)
SARS-CoV-2: a respiratory coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 from live animal markets in Wuhan, China. Bats are the reservoir species.
A new virus, called the Coronavirus emerged in December 2019 and has spread to people around the world.
Jesuit Worldwide Learning invites you to learn facts and test your knowledge on the ongoing pandemic caused by Coronavirus (COVID 19) through a ...fun-interactive crash course!
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At the moment Unit 1 to 5 are available
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A new virus, called the Coronavirus emerged in December 2019 and has spread to people around the world.
Jesuit Worldwide Learning invites you to learn facts and test your knowledge on the ongoing pandemic caused by Coronavirus (COVID 19) through a ...fun-interactive crash course!
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From now on you will find the android and windows application download links and their updates both with this easy url
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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 pá...ginas fueron escritas de una manera sencilla, evitando vocabulario médico engorroso, con el fin de que en una sola lectura atenta se puedan capturar los conceptos más significativos de las acciones.
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El Ministerio de Salud de la Nación, a través de la Dirección Nacional de Emergencias Sanitarias ha elaborado esta sencilla guía dirigida a la comunidad para brindarle elementos básicos para prevenir, reconocer y asistir a eventuales víctima...s de incidentes en el hogar, la escuela, el trabajo, o la vía pública.
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Arsenical monotherapies were previously very successful for treating human African trypanosomiasis (HAT).
Melarsoprol resistance emerged as early as the 1970s and was widespread by the late 1990s.
Melarsoprol resistance represents the only example... of widespread drug resistance in HAT patients where the genetic mechanism has been established.
The current goal of elimination of HAT as a public health problem by 2020 may be undermined by the emergence and spread of resistance to current or new drugs.
Insights into potential resistance mechanisms for current and new drugs will facilitate predictions of the likelihood of resistance and will also facilitate rational approaches to minimizing, monitoring, and tackling the future emergence of resistance.
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Health facilities in the Region of the Americas frequently suffer the effects of health emergencies and disasters, which jeopardize their ability to provide services to the population. The STAR-H methodology helps staff responsible for health ...class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">emergency and disaster risk management to identify and assess risks as part of strategic planning to improve facility preparedness. It is intended to help them develop, with a multi-hazard approach, a response framework with operating procedures to deal with hazards of any type, scale, or frequency; determine roles and responsibilities; facilitate the effective use of resources; undertake strategic planning exercises, and improve the preparedness of facilities to effectively respond to and recover from impacts. This methodology is designed for use in health facilities of any size and capacity, and makes it possible to generate historical reports and national or subnational risk profiles. This information can be used to develop an effective health emergency and disaster risk management program.
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Aunque en mayo de 2023 la pandemia de COVID-19 ya no se consideraba una emergencia de salud pública de alcance internacional, no debemos pasar por alto los profundos problemas estructurales que ha puesto de manifiesto en nuestra economía. La salud... es un derecho humano fundamental, y actualmente es necesario reorientar y transformar la economía con el fin de lograr el objetivo de garantizar la Salud para Todos.
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Lessons learnt from the ADCAP programme | This guide shares good practices and challenges that have emerged through the experience of the Age and Disability Capacity Programme (ADCAP) implementing partners, in embedding inclusion of older people an...d people with disabilities within their humanitarian policies and practices. All mainstream and specialist organisations engaged in humanitarian responses can learn and benefit from this experience. This guide complements the ‘Humanitarian inclusion standards for older people and people with disabilities’ (see Appendix 4), by documenting practices that will help humanitarian organisations to systematically include older people and people with disabilities.
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The extensive use of antimicrobials in human and veterinary medicine in recent years has accelerated the emergence and spread of resistant microorganisms. This situation has been worsened by the lack of investment in developing new effective antibio...tics. The severity of the consequences is clear to see: it is estimated that each year, drug-resistant infections result in at least 25 000 patient deaths and cost the EU EUR 1,5 billion in healthcare costs and through loss of productivity
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