El Programa Nacional de Chagas ha definido la utilización de dos medicamentos para el tratamiento de la Enfermedad de Chagas Crónico Reciente Infantil (en niños de 9 meses a menor de 15 años); el benznidazol (BNZ) que será utilizado como medica...mento de primera elección en todos los casos con diagnóstico serológico positivo confirmado y el nifurtimox (NFT) que será utilizado como segunda alternativa en aquellos casos que hubieran presentado reacciones adversas graves al benznidazol, e indiquen un cambio de conducta.
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Buruli ulcer (BU) is a bacterial skin infection that is caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans and mainly affects people who reside in the rural areas of Africa and in suburban and beach resort communities in Australia.
Catalogage à la source : Bibliothèque de l’OMS Rapport mondial sur le vieillissement et la santé.
1.Vieillissement. 2.Espérance de vie. 3.Sujet âgé. 4.Services de santé pour personnes âgées. 5.Santé mondiale. 6.Dynamique des populations.... 7.Prestations des soins de santé. I.Organisation mondiale de la Santé.
ISBN 978 92 4 256504 1 (Classification NLM : WT 104) ISBN 978 92 4 069482 8 (ePub)
ISBN 978 92 4 069483 5 (Daisy)
ISBN 978 92 4 069484 2 (PDF)
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New criteria for classifying and diagnosing hyperglycaemia first detected during pregnancy have been accepted by a group of experts convened by WHO. These new criteria are an update of recommendations published by WHO in 1999
Pediatría
Capítulo I.2
Editores: Laura Borredá Belda, Matías Irarrázaval & Andres Martin
Traducción: Alfonso Pastor Romero, Silvia Rodriguez Portillo, Carla Andreia Carvalho Gómez, María Tatiana Stefan & Paula Cox
Tema 8.22 da agenda provisória
Washington, D.C., EUA, 23 a 27 de setembro de 2018
CD56/INF/22 31 de agosto de 2018
Original: inglês/espanhol
As a public good, antimicrobial medicines require rational use if their effectiveness is to be preserved. However, up to 50% of antibiotic use is inappropriate, adding considerable costs to patient care, and increasing morbidity and mortality. In ad...dition, there is compelling evidence that antimicrobial resistance is driven by the volume of antimicrobial agents used. High rates of antimicrobial resistance to common treatments are currently reported all over the world, both in health care settings and in the community. For over two decades, the Region of the Americas has been a pioneer in confronting antimicrobial resistance from a public health perspective. However, those efforts need to be stepped up if we are to have an impact on antimicrobial resistance and want to quantify said impact.
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A new report released today documents an “invisible wall” which has blocked migrants from accessing basic services since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and is now preventing them from accessing vaccines.
The Adult Standard Treatment Guidelines and Essential Medicines List for Hospital Level provide a platform for transparency to enable equitable access to safe, effective, and affordable treatment options at hospital level taking into consideration t...he changing clinical needs of our population and the pragmatic implications of the introducing a new health technology.
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Europe and Central Asia Economic Update.
The Russian Federation’s war with Ukraine has triggered a catastrophic humanitarian crisis and threatened the stability of geopolitical relations. Economic output in the Europe and Central Asia region is f...orecast to contract by more than 4.1% in 2022—the second major shock and regional recession in two years. Moreover, the war has added to mounting concerns of a sharp global growth slowdown.
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To its credit, Chile has implemented a highly successful vaccine program and taken a number of other important public health measures to improve the well-being of its inhabitants. Nevertheless, t...hese measures have proved insufficient to curb the spread of the virus and ensure full compliance with Chile’s obligations to respect, protect and
fulfil the right to health. It is in this context that this report examines the human rights impacts of the pandemic and the responses of the Chilean authorities.
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Resumen para Equipos de Salud Edición 2021-2022
Las presentes recomendaciones se encuentran dirigidas a los miembros del equipo de salud que asisten niñas, niños y adolescentes (NNyA) que viven con VIH. También se dirigen ...-to-highlight medbox">a los responsables jurisdiccionales que participan en el proceso de gestión de acceso a tratamientos antiretrovirales recomendados. El objetivo es brindar directrices para optimizar el cuidado y tratamiento antiretroviral de NNyA, con opciones más seguras y eficaces, basadas en la mejor evidencia disponible.
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Burden of T. solium: Neurocysticercosis is a disease induced by T. solium larvae penetrating human tissues, especially the nervous system. Neurocysticercosis burdens economies, societies and individuals because of the impact of epilepsy on wages, he...alth costs and social stigmatization of sufferers. Health systems are also burdened as treatments must be tailored to individual needs.
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Benchmarking is a strategic process often used by businesses and institutes to standardize performance in relation to the best practices of their sector. The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have developed ...ight medbox">a tool with a list of benchmarks and corresponding suggested actions that can be applied to implement the International Health Regulations 2005 (IHR) and strengthen health emergency prevention, preparedness, response and resilience capacities.
The first edition of the benchmarks was published in 2019 to support countries in developing, implementing and documenting progress of national IHR or health security plans (e.g. national action plan for health security (NAPHS), national action plan for emerging infectious diseases, public health emergencies and health security and other country level plans for health emergencies). The tool has been updated to incorporate lessons from COVID-19 and other health emergencies, to align with the updated IHR monitoring & evaluation framework (IHR MEF) tools and the health systems for health security framework, and to support strengthening health emergency prevention, preparedness, response and resilience (HEPR) capacities and the Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (PRET) initiative.
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Entraînement à la marche. Un excellent exercice pour les personnes amputées des membres inférieurs
This handbook reflects and updates the work that ECLAC has done in recent decades to establish a methodology for estimating the economic consequences of a disaster, and thus determine the financing ...required to rebuild and return the affected area to normal. The handbook's third edition strengthens procedures for estimating the effects of disasters, for distinguishing between losses and additional costs and systematizing the links that exist between different sectors of the economy
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Se espera que sean una referencia para la elaboración de protocolos clínicos y políticas sanitarias a nivel nacional y local relacionados con el embarazo, en el contexto de la transmisión del virus de Zika, pero no se pretende ofrecer una guía ...práctica completa para la prevención y el tratamiento de esta infección.
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Working document from an informal consultation of experts. A Protocol for risk assessment at the field level. The purpose of document is to provide guidance on the methodology to be used for assessing, at field level, the yellow fever virus circula...tion in areas at risk, and is primarily intended for public health specialists
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The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, a collaborative endeavour of the World
Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank and the Harvard School of Public Health,
drew the attention of the international health community to the burden of neurologi...cal
disorders and many other chronic conditions. This study found that the burden of neurological
disorders was seriously underestimated by traditional epidemiological and health
statistical methods that take into account only mortality rates but not disability rates. The
GBD study showed that over the years the global health impact of neurological disorders
had been underestimated.
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El manual tiene por objetivo ampliar los conocimientos sobre la enfermedad y aspira a ser una herramienta de trabajo para que el personal de salud y los equipos de gestión presten apoyo a los minis...terios de salud en sus respectivos procesos de estructuración de los servicios de salud, así como en la optimización de las actividades para reducir la morbilidad y la mortalidad asociadas a las leishmaniasis.
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