Filter
683
Text search:
treatment
gap
Featured
85
297
Language
Document type
593
38
22
20
4
3
2
1
Countries
39
34
34
33
25
22
20
20
19
18
17
16
16
16
16
13
11
9
8
8
8
7
6
5
5
5
5
4
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
312
56
53
50
48
22
6
1
1
Toolboxes
50
29
23
22
19
17
15
15
14
10
8
7
7
5
5
4
3
2
1
1
A Global Campaign Against Epilepsy Demonstration Project
A Global Perspective
Paediatrics
Chapter I.2
HOW ICAP IS BUILDING NURSING AND MIDWIFERY CAPACITY AND STRENGTHENING HEALTH SYSTEMS
The module is currently available in English, French, Nepali, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
Participatory Learning and Action Planning; A Facilitator's Guide
Food Security And Nutrition In Emergency
recommended
Chapter 9: Public health guide for emergencies
Specific action sheets offer useful guidance on mental health and psychosocial support and cover the following areas coordination assessment monitoring and evaluation protection and human rights standards human resources community mobilisation and support health services education dissemination of i
...
Safe Water School Training Manual
recommended
Disaster Preparedness Training Programme
The document contains 2 decision trees, the first short one is to act fast and the second is to design better interventions
A practical handbook covering the architecture, engineering, design and operation of prisons. It is intended for all ICRC delegates working in places of detention, whether they have extensive practical experience or are new to the field.
Building the competence and confidence of nurse and midwife educators
ICAP Nurse Capacity Initiative offers its Campus to Clinic Curriculum to empower nursing educators and mentors with a new area of expertise. It opens the door to teach in new ways with confidence. It can be adapted to different c
...
This curriculum can be used freely in order to stimulate means of ethical analysis, reflection and decision-making.
The objective of this book is to provide health workers with easily accessible information on important aspects of the medicines commonly used at primary care level in Zimbabwe. Medicines are a crucial part of the management of most of our patients, yet many medicines are potentially dangerous if no
...
As knowledge on Ebola-related safety measures accumulates, this guidance is provisional. This guide focuses on psychological first aid, which involves humane, supportive and practical help to follow human beings suffering serious crisis events. The guidance has been written for people who help othe
...
This guide provides practical, step-by-step guidance on how to organize, implement, and monitor community-based care for DR TB. It is equally useful for program planning or supervision. The target audience for this guide is TB Program Managers, governments, policy makers, nongovernmental organizatio
...
Biennial Report. SUBMITTED TO THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION ON HIV AND AIDS
Reporting period: January 2012 – December 2013
This manual provides guidance on best practices to be followed in Ebola Care Units (ECUs)/Community Care Centres (CCCs). It is intended for health aid workers (including junior nurses and community health-care workers) and others providing care for patients in ECUs/CCCs. While the focus is on the ca
...
Summary of research into the consequences of the Ebola outbreak for children and communities in Liberia and Sierra Leone
This study describes the range of impacts that Ebola has had on children and families in Liberia and Sierra Leone, looking beyond the immediate health effects
Assessing the impact of the EVD outbreak on health systems in Sierra Leone. Survey concluded 6-17 October 2014
National Operational Guidelines
The Primary Care Innovator’s Handbook
recommended
Voices from Leaders in the Field
This paper has been commissioned by RedR to identify gaps in skills, technology, and knowledge in urban humanitarian response in order to inform RedR’s project Ready to Respond which is looking to address these gaps in two specific areas:
Water supply, sanitation, and hygiene; Shelter res
...
Malawi Health Sector Strategic Plan 2011 - 2016
recommended
Moving towards equity and quality
The document contains preliminary report on all aspects of WHO’s response in the Ebola outbreak. WHO Member States will discuss the report at the sixty-eighth World Health Assembly.
The report provides a global knowledge base on suicide and suicide attempts as well as actionable steps for countries based on their current resources and context to move forward in suicide prevention.
The Integrated Management of Adolescent/Adult Illness (IMAI) approach
Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme
Immigrant and refugee mental health - Best practices in meeting the needs of immigrants and refugees
Compared to their native counterparts, immigrants and refugees are at higher risk for developing mental health problems due to previous trauma and/or the stress of migration and resettlement; such as war, violence, poverty, and acculturation.
This report documents the secondary humanitarian problems and impacts of large-scale Ebola outbreak on the different humanitarian sectors, to provide a non-exhaustive plan to help future responders. A large scale Ebola outbreak, in this document, refers to an epidemic with an unprecedented scale, ge
...
Regional Operational Plan 2016 FY17 Strategic Direction Summary
2 May 2016
Operational Guideline
Community Health Workers in Sub Saharan Africa
recommended
A booklet on how CHWs were addressing eye health across Africa based on desk research and a survey in 23 countries
Health Situation of Children in Southern Africa
The impacts of El Niño and La Niña are expected to more than double the regular caseloads of childhood illnesses (malaria, cholera, pneumonia, measles and diarrhoea) in the most affected countries.
• Diarrhoea cases among children are expec
...
A short Guide for Health Practitioners
The Lancet Global Health 2016 Published Online August 30, 2016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30175-9
Irresponsible pharmaceutical companies fuel the proliferation of superbugs through supply chain pollution, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) reports. The advocacy group uncovered lapses such as dirty production and inadequate waste disposal in the production of antimicrobials in China and I
...
Guidelines for Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Level Care
El Niño conditions persisting during the 2015/16 planting season have caused the worst drought in 35 years in Southern Africa, resulting in a second consecutive failed harvest. This has created severe food shortages and compounded existing vulnerabilities. Since July 2016, Namibia and Botswana have
...
Q4: Should community based rehabilitation be offered to children with intellectual disabilities?
This progress report reflects achievements made during the first year of implementation (through December 2016), as countries have taken actions in line with new or existing national strategies. The most recent data on country progress in 2016 are based on country-reported data and country-developed
...
International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) 2013 | 7th – 12th December | Cape Town, South Africa
Abuses against Women and Girls with Psychosocial or Intellectual Disabilities in institutions in India
Primary Health-Care Services
recommended
In health emergencies as in periods of stability, restoring access to primary health-care services is a priority in so far as many health problems can be dealt with by means of preventive care and
conventional therapy. Depending on the context, the ICRC must often take action in this area, taking i
...
Communicable Diseases Control in Emergencies
recommended
A field manual
