Esta nota de instrução resume as principais considerações em Saúde Mental e Apoio Psicossocial (SMAPS) referen-tes ao novo surto de coronavírus (COVID-19). Este documento foi atualizado pela última vez em 17 de março de 2020.
An evidence-informed approach for non-formal, out-of-school CSE programmes that aims to reach young people from left-behind populations
This guidance is intended to assist anyone designing and/or implementing CSE in out-of-school settings, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This includ...es international and national civil-society organizations, community-based organizations, government departments, UN agencies, health authorities, non-formal education authorities and youth development authorities. It is also intended for anyone else involved in the design, delivery and evaluation of sexuality education programmes out of school, especially those working with the specific groups of young people addressed in the guidance.
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Given an increase in outbreaks caused by resistant microorganisms associated with medical tourism, the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) encourages Member States to strengthen their capacity to detect and manage infections caused by resis...tant microorganismsin patients who traveled outside of their country of residence to receive healthcare. Furthermore, PAHO/WHO stresses the importance to implement preventive measures to reduce healthcare-associated infections at all levels of the health system.
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Organizing and Delivering High Quality Care for Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases in the Americas
The aim of these Guidelines is to provide a framework for the conservation and sustainable use of plants in medicine. To do this, the Guidelines describe the various tasks that should be carried out to ensure that where medicinal plants are taken from the wild, they are taken on a basis that is sust...ainable.
The Guidelines conform to the principles of Caring for the Earth, prepared in partnership by IUCN, UNEP and WWF. Caring for the Earth extends the message and scope of the World Conservation Strategy to an ethic of sustainable living, and explains how to integrate conservation with development. Its message is particularly relevant to the issue of medicinal plants, which in many parts of the world are being seriously depleted due to over-exploitation and loss of habitats, resulting in a lack of essential medicines and so reducing options for the future.
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Informe elaborado en el 2004 por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) Departamento de Salud Mental y Abuso de Sustancias en colaboración con la Fundación Victorian para la Promoción de la Salud y la Universidad de Melbourne. Este informe tiene el objetivo de activar la dimensión de la salu...d mental en la promoción de la salud; describe los conceptos relacionados con la promoción de la salud mental, la evidencia emergente para la efectividad de las intervenciones y las implicaciones de las políticas y prácticas de la salud pública.
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Le Burkina Faso traverse des flambées épidémiques complexes sans précédent de la poliomyélite et du virus Corona qui affectent gravement le pays.
Avec de multiples maladies endémiques et d'autres flambées signalées telles que la rougeole, la méningite, le virus Corona, découvert pour l...a première fois en Chine début décembre 2019, a gravement affecté la population du Burkina Faso et son système de santé. Comme c'est le cas pour plusieurs pays Il s'agit de la première histoire de l'épidémie de corona virus dans le Pays, et qui est l'un des pays à avoir enregistré de nombreux cas avec un taux de mortalité élevé. La particularité est le mélange de crise humanitaire et la pandémie COVID-19 marqué par une transmission interhumaine active et étendue dans différentes régions du pays.
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This fact sheet provides basic information about Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
L'antibiorèsistance constitue actuellment un problème de santè puplique en Tunisie. En effet, depuis une quinzaine d'anneés, notre pays fait face á un accroissment global des rèsistances bactériennes aux agents antimicrobiens. Ce phénoméne qui concerne également la majorité des pays, est ...dû á l'apparition et l'extension de nouveaux mécanismes de résistance, rendant inefficaces les traitements actuellment disponibles.
République Tunienne - Ministére de la santé
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Taking a multisectoral, One Health approach is necessary to address complex health threats at the human-animal-environment interface, such as rabies, zoonotic influenza, anthrax, and Rift Valley fever. Such zoonotic diseases continue to have major impacts on health, livelihoods, and economies, and c...annot be effectively addressed by one sector alone.
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30th World AIDS Day Report
STAR Initiative, Unitaid and World Health Organization December 2018