Guidelines for Prevention and Reponse
This document is designed to provide UNICEF staff and UNICEF partner staff with principles and concepts that can assist them to respond to the psychosocial needs of children in natural disasters and social emergencies such as armed conflict and other forms of violence. It aims to introduce humanitar...ian workers to psychosocial principles and UNICEF’s position on these principles. It also provides a number of examples from field work of how these principles have been turned into concrete actions. These psychosocial principles and concepts inform both emergency responses and subsequent programmatic responses post-emergency.
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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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Enfermedades Transmisibles.
Serie Manuales y Guías sobre Desastres
Esta es la primera de la serie de Guías de Aprendizaje sobre la lepra publicadas por ILEP. Va dirigida a todo el personal sanitario que trata a personas afectadas de
lepra, especialmente a los que reciben a los pacientes remitidos por primera vez por otros profesionales, como en un Centro de Salud... Primario. Las personas de
las que se sospecha que padecen lepra tienen que ser examinadas aquí detenidamente para que el diagnóstico pueda ser confirmado o rechazado. Por lo tanto, esta Guía ofrece información más detallada que la Guía para la Eliminación de la Lepra como Problema de Salud Pública de la OMS, que va dirigida principalmente al personal sanitario más periférico.
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The Global Campaign Against Epilepsy “Out of the Shadows”
The report discusses the epidemiological and social aspects of ageing, health and functional changes experienced with ageing, the impact of physical activity, assessment of the nutritional status of older persons, and nutritional guidelines for healthy ageing.
Intended for use primarily by those responsible for developing policies and directing the working practices of nurses, midwives and other frontline health-care providers, these guidelines aim to promote and strengthen the case against the medicalization of female genital mutilation and support and p...rotect nurses, midwives and other health personnel in adhering to WHO guidelines not to close an opened-up infibulation.
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Contact No 175 - October December 2001
Medicinal plants occupied an important position in the socio-cultural, spiritual and medicinal arena of rural people of India. T
The present report is based on contribution made by members of the task force and many other experts on medicinal plants. We hope the report on implementation will promot...e sustainable and equitable development of medicinal plants sector provide "Health for All", boost exports, and will improve livelihood of the people and green the country for the present and the
generation to come.
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New assessment guidelines for measuring the overall impact of mental health problems in Latin America have served as a catalyst for countries to review their mental health policies. Latin American countries have taken various steps to address long-standing problems such as structural difficulties, s...carce financial and human resources, and social, political, and cultural obstacles in the implementation of mental health policies and legislation. These policy developments, however, have had uneven results. Policies must reflect the desire, determination, and commitment of policy-makers to take mental health seriously and look after people’s mental health needs. This paper describes the development of mental health policies in Latin American countries, focusing on published data in peer-reviewed journals, and legislative change and its implementation. It presents a brief history of mental health policy developments, and analyzes the basis and practicalities of current practice.
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Este manual proporciona directrices prácticas para el tratamiento de los pacientes con malnutrición grave. Su objetivo es fomentar el mejor tratamiento disponible para reducir el riesgo de defunción, acortar la estancia hospitalaria y facilitar la rehabilitación y una
recuperación completa.
This Teacher’s Guide accompanies the WHO publication Management of wastes from health-care activities . It provides teaching materials and recommendations for a three day training course, designed mainly for managers of health-care establishments, public health professionals and policy makers