Filter
8042
Filtered Results: 8042
Text search:
primary
health
care
services
Featured
Recommendations
692
New Publications
2229
Language
Document type
No document type
4809
Studies & Reports
1319
Guidelines
863
Manuals
401
Strategic & Response Plan
290
Training Material
115
Fact sheets
108
Situation Updates
85
Resource Platforms
17
Infographics
15
Brochures
11
Online Courses
7
App
1
Videos
1
Countries / Regions
India
383
Global
307
Kenya
261
South Africa
196
Ethiopia
189
Nepal
186
Nigeria
168
Sierra Leone
162
Uganda
161
Western and Central Europe
149
Liberia
144
Myanmar / Burma
143
Malawi
138
Zambia
130
Bangladesh
129
Tanzania
124
Syria
123
Rwanda
116
Latin America and the Carribbean
100
Africa
92
Ukraine
91
Ghana
90
Namibia
79
Philippines
74
Zimbabwe
65
South Sudan
62
Lesotho
60
Congo, Democratic Republic of
59
Cambodia
57
Eastern Europe
56
Indonesia
54
South–East Asia Region
50
Mozambique
48
Asia
41
Senegal
40
Botswana
40
Haiti
39
Guinea
38
East and Southern Africa
37
West and Central Africa
37
Burkina Faso
34
Yemen
33
Brazil
29
Middle East and North Africa
29
Venezuela
28
Pakistan
27
Eswatini/ Swaziland
27
Jordan
26
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
26
Russia
26
Colombia
25
Germany
24
Lebanon
23
Afghanistan
22
Cameroon
20
Western Pacific Region
20
USA
17
Sudan
17
Vietnam
17
Mali
16
Somalia
16
Iraq
14
Thailand
14
Central African Republic
14
Tajikistan
14
Laos
13
Moldova
13
Turkey
12
Sri Lanka
12
Albania
12
Benin
11
China
10
Peru
10
Georgia
10
Mexico
9
Chile
9
Burundi
8
Palestine
8
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
7
Libya
7
Madagascar
7
Paraguay
7
Southern Africa
7
Papua New Guinea
6
Poland
6
Iran
6
North America
6
Argentina
5
Ecuador
5
Greece
5
Armenia
5
Romania
5
Kyrgyzstan
5
Kazakhstan
5
Niger
4
Egypt
4
North Macedonia
4
Hungary
4
Bolivia
4
Angola
4
Canada
4
Timor Leste/ East Timor
4
Turkmenistan
4
Jamaica
4
United Kingdom
4
Gambia
3
Serbia
3
Croatia
3
El Salvador
3
Guatemala
3
Bhutan
3
Estonia
3
Uzbekistan
3
Japan
3
Mauritius
3
Spain
3
Belarus
3
Guinea-Bissau
2
Saudi Arabia
2
Chad
2
Malaysia
2
Ireland
2
Singapore
2
Honduras
2
Fiji
2
Italy
2
Qatar
2
Bulgaria
2
Lithuania
2
Slovakia
2
Tunisia
2
Portugal
2
Azerbaijan
2
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2
Morocco
1
Switzerland
1
Nicaragua
1
Other region
1
Djibouti
1
Mongolia
1
Australia
1
Gabon
1
Denmark
1
Belgium
1
France
1
Maldives
1
Latvia
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
3293
Clinical Guidelines
571
Public Health
465
Women & Child Health
436
Key Resources
316
Capacity Building
150
Pharmacy & Technologies
71
Annual Report MEDBOX
1
General Guidelines
1
Protection & Security
1
Toolboxes
Mental Health
720
HIV
589
COVID-19
564
Disability
375
TB
369
Conflict
270
Caregiver
254
Planetary Health
203
AMR
187
Rapid Response
179
Ebola
174
Refugee
164
NCDs
151
NTDs
150
Global Health Education
130
Pharmacy
116
Natural Hazards
95
Health Financing Toolbox
81
Social Ethics
41
Specific Hazards
40
Polio
33
Zika
31
Cholera
25
South Sudan
2
Typhoon
2
Health Financing
2
WHO Guideline on self-care interventions for health and well-being, 2022 revision: executive summary
recommended
A global shortage of an estimated 18 million health workers is anticipated by 2030, a record 130 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, and there is the global threat of pandemics such as COVID-19. At least 400 million people worldwi...
This report presents, for the first time, a global assessment of the extent to which health care facilities provide essential water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) .... Drawing on data from 54 low- and middle-income countries, the report concludes that 38% lack access to even rudimentary levels of water, 19% lack sanitation and 35% do not have water and soap for handwashing. When a higher level of service is factored in, the situation deteriorates significantly. A number of areas require urgent action and WHO will work with UNICEF, Governments and other partners to develop a global plan to address the most pressing needs and ensure that all health care facilities have WASH services.
The standards for the care of small and sick newborns in health facilities define, standardize and mainstream inpatient care of small and sick newb...
In order to maintain daily operations and patient care services, health care facilities need to ...
Yaya et al. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2018) 18:194
Ensuring equitable access to maternal health care including antenatal, delivery, postnatal servi...
and fertility control methods, is one of the most critical challenges for public health sector. There are significant
disparities in maternal health care indicators across many geographical locations, maternal, economic, sociodemographic
factors in many countries in sub-Sahara Africa. In this study, we comparatively explored the utilization
level of maternal health care, and examined disparities in the determinants of major maternal health outcomes
Investment in all the drivers and facilitators of hand hygiene action in health care to ensure that it occurs at the point of care and other critic...
Over the past two decades, Afghanistan has depended on international donor support to fund essential services like health care. But this donor supp...
A corruption event in 2009 led to changes in how donors supported the Zambian health system. Donor funding was withdrawn from the district basket mechanism, originally designed to pool donor and government financing for ... care. The withdrawal of these funds from the pooled financing mechanism raised questions from Government and donors regarding the impact on primary care financing during this period of aid volatility.
People with disabilities experience significant health inequalities. In Malawi, where most individuals live in low-income rural settings, many of these inequalities are exacerbated by restricted access to ... care services. This qualitative study explores the barriers to health care access experienced by individuals with a mobility or sensory impairment, or both, living in rural villages in Dowa district, central Malawi. In addition, the impact of a chronic lung condition, alongside a mobility or sensory impairment, on health care accessibility is explored.
USAID Senegal and Health in Africa (HIA) initiative of the World Bank Group engaged the Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project to conduct an assessment of the priva...
Planned and regulated task shifting and task sharing can have a range of benefits. It can ensure a rational optimization of the available health workforce, address health system shortages of special...
Supporting the continuity of health and nutrition services in the context of COVID-19 in refugee settings
recommended
The 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak was catastrophic in West Africa but the indirect impact of increasing the mortality rates of other conditions was also substantial. The increased number of deaths caused by malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis attributable to ... system failures exceeded deaths from Ebola.
With a relatively limited COVID-19 caseload, health systems may have the capacity to maintain routine service delivery in addition to managing COVID-19 cases. When caseloads are high, and/or health workers are directly affected, strategic adaptations are required to ensure that increasingly limited resources provide maximum benefit for the refugees and surrounding host population. The following are key considerations for UNHCR operations on prioritized health care services in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak. These are based on WHO Guidance for Maintaining Essential Health Services and UNHCR guidance for operations and where relevant operation or site level outbreak preparedness and response plans.
WHO Guidance for Climate Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health Care Facilities
recommended
The aim of this guidance is to enhance the capacity of health care facilities to protect and improve the health of their target communities in an u...
Monitoring financial protection and utilization of health services in Mongolia 2009-2018 is based on national representative household socioeconomic surveys. The study finds that between 2009 and 20...
In recent decades, there have been concerted efforts to improve mental health services for youths alongside the challenges of rising healthcare cos...
nt. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2014, 11(12), 13097-13116; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph111213097
Climate change will increase the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events and create risks that will impact ... care facilities. Health care facilities will need to assess climate change risks and adopt adaptive management strategies to be resilient, but guidance tools are lacking. In this study, a toolkit was developed for health care facility officials to assess the resiliency of their facility to climate change impacts. A mixed methods approach was used to develop climate change resiliency indicators to inform the development of the toolkit. The toolkit consists of a checklist for officials who work in areas of emergency management, facilities management and health care services and supply chain management, a facilitator’s guide for administering the checklist, and a resource guidebook to inform adaptation. Six health care facilities representing three provinces in Canada piloted the checklist. Senior level officials with expertise in the aforementioned areas were invited to review the checklist, provide feedback during qualitative interviews and review the final toolkit at a stakeholder workshop. The toolkit helps health care facility officials identify gaps in climate change preparedness, direct allocation of adaptation resources and inform strategic planning to increase resiliency to climate change.
To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out
an email-correspondence study in Germany. We approach...
Shortages of healthcare workers is detrimental to the health of communities, especially children. This paper describes the process of capacity building Community ... 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
Ghana's attempt to regulate health care waste management started in 2002 with the development of guidelines on health ... waste manage-ment by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In 2006, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) also developed the Health Care Waste Management Policy and Guidelines as a single document.
Although awareness on Health Care Waste Management (HCWM) has improved in recent years, there is the need for a systematic approach to improve on effective segregation, safe collection, and storage, as well as ultimate treatment before disposal.
This guideline seeks to ensure that HCW is managed effectively in compliance with existing International Conventions that Ghana is a signatory to, national laws and regulations, and others to be passed in future.
Recommendations for better management of HCW in the nation's health care facilities have been presented in this document. Also, standard operating procedures (SOPs) have been developed to provide
guidance to various levels of the health facilities.
INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted health systems around the world. The objectives of this study are to estimate the overall effect of the pandemic on essential health ... use and outcomes in Mexico, describe observed and predicted trends in services over 24 months, and to estimate the number of visits lost through December 2020.
METHODS: We used health information system data for January 2019 to December 2020 from the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), which provides health services for more than half of Mexico's population-65 million people. Our analysis includes nine indicators of service use and three outcome indicators for reproductive, maternal and child health and non-communicable disease services. We used an interrupted time series design and linear generalised estimating equation models to estimate the change in service use and outcomes from April to December 2020. Estimates were expressed using average marginal effects on the risk ratio scale.
RESULTS: The study found that across nine health services, an estimated 8.74 million patient visits were lost in Mexico. This included a decline of over two thirds for breast and cervical cancer screenings (79% and 68%, respectively), over half for sick child visits and female contraceptive services, approximately one-third for childhood vaccinations, diabetes, hypertension and antenatal care consultations, and a decline of 10% for deliveries performed at IMSS. In terms of patient outcomes, the proportion of patients with diabetes and hypertension with controlled conditions declined by 22% and 17%, respectively. Caesarean section rate did not change.
CONCLUSION: Significant disruptions in health services show that the pandemic has strained the resilience of the Mexican health system and calls for urgent efforts to resume essential services and plan for catching up on missed preventive care even as the COVID-19 crisis continues in Mexico.
