Ihre groesste Stärke entfalten Masken in Kombination mit weiteren Massnahmen. Ein gutes Bild dafür ist das Prinzip von Schweizer-Käse-Scheiben, das der australische Virologe Ian Mackay für das Coronavirus ersonnen hat. Die Löcher symbolisieren die Schlupflöcher für die Viren in den Schutzmass...nahmen – denn jede Massnahme für sich allein genommen wirkt nicht perfekt. Aber: Stehen die verschiedenen Käsescheiben hintereinander, so sitzen die Löcher jeweils an anderen Stellen. Dann passieren die heranflitzenden Viren vielleicht die erste und zweite Barriere, aber irgendwo weiter hinten in der Serie der Käsescheiben prallen sie dann doch auf Widerstand. Die Virologin Melanie Brinkmann hat dieses Käsescheiben-Modell sehr verständlich in diesem Video für Schüler erklärt
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Última modificação: 28.05.2020; Data da publicação: 04.07.2017. O objetivo desta cartilha é apresentar o tema da tuberculose oferecendo subsídios para o desenvolvimento do trabalho do ACS. Seu formato foi pensado para facilitar a consulta e o manuseio, principalmente auxiliando o esclarecimen...to de dúvidas durante a visita domiciliar de forma objetiva. Visa também destacar o olhar para a tuberculose, contribuindo com o controle da doença e o cuidado das pessoas no território de atuação.
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Antimicrobial Resistance or AMR continues to pose a major threat to human development and to the fight against infectious diseases. It also endangers animal health and welfare, and food production, and severely impacts our economies and societies. An holistic approach must be used to mitigate AMR ri...sks in Africa. Therefore, AMR governance is essential to promote sustainable actions that include proper institutional collaborations from public and private sectors to meet the dynamic societal demands in the continent. So join us in being part of the solution to Antimicrobial Resistance in Africa!
The Video is available in English, French, Arabic and Portuguese
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Este folleto informativo acerca del coronavirus (COVID-19), está elaborado especialmente para ti que estás a cargo del cuidado de un niño o adolescente con alguna enfermedad oncológica o hematológica. 1 Al tener un sistema de defensas debilitado por el tratamiento y enfermedad, ellos se encuent...ran más expuestos a las complicaciones que trae este virus y comprendemos que como madre, padre o cuidador, puedes tener muchas preguntas al respecto y es importante que cuentes con información adecuada que te permita saber qué hacer y cómo acompañar al menor a cargo en esta especial situación.
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This document offers tools to help journalists practice responsible coverage of the pandemic using evidence-based information. It also proposes ways to approach coverage and encourages journalists to provide advice and solutions that can help reduce health risks and save lives.
The roundtable provided a forum that allowed communicators across a number of Federal agencies to share information, strategies, and challenges in developing and providing communication messages and ...medbox">materials to the public in preparation for, and in response to, a radiation emergency. Throughout the discussion , several “big picture” qestions were brought up that may be addressed in future interagency efforts.
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10 points from field experience
A toolkit for behavioural and social communication in outbreak response
This field workbook supports the implementation of the interagency (FAO, UNICEF, WHO) “Communication for Behavioural Impact (COMBI): A toolkit for behavioural and social communication in outbreak ...response”. It is a handheld guide and notebook for applying the WHO COMBI methodology in 7-steps, during an outbreak. It is primarily intended for risk communication, developmental communication and health promotion/education personnel working in multidisciplinary teams to investigate and respond to disease outbreaks. It contains essential tools, checklists, and information needed to design effective behavioural and communication interventions in support of outbreak prevention and control objectives - to limit loss of life and minimize disruption to families, communities and societies
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This guideline provides health policy-makers and decision-makers in health professional training institutions with advice on the rationale for health-care providers’ use of counselling skills to address sexual health concerns in a primary health care setting
This training module is designed to equip health workers (HWs) with
knowledge, skills, confidence and resources to help them in their role to recommend the Human Papillomavirus
(HPV) vaccine.
This document seeks to help health communication professionals working on the topic of immunization more effectively communicate about Events Supposedly Attributed to Vaccination and Immunization (ESAVI) by building trust in National Immunization Pr...ograms, understanding risk perceptions related to vaccination, and responding to false information related to vaccination. It includes practical dos and don’ts regarding risk communication and community engagement processes and principles, messaging, risk perceptions, handling false information, collaborating with partners, and pharmacovigilance, as well as real-world examples.
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