This manual is intended for mid-level rehabilitation workers and primary health care personnel as an educational and instructional tool to use for their work ...ox">with persons who have sustained traumatic brain injury, their families and members of their communities. The manual contains common medical, physical, cognitive and behavioral consequences of brain injury, and basic information for helping caregivers and community members, including teachers and potential employers.
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These recommendations for the education of mid-level rehabilitation workers are based on experiences in planning and implementing training programmes in nine countries. This information is useful in designing and developing training programmes speci...fic to community-based rehabilitation
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These recommendations for the education of mid-level rehabilitation workers are based on experiences in planning and implementing training programmes in nine countries. This information is useful in designing and developing training programmes speci...fic to community-based rehabilitation
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Content has been developed based on the WHO Wheelchair Guidelines and the Wheelchair Service Training Package—Basic Level. Adult Education
The main purpose of the training package is to develop the minimum skills and knowledge required by personnel involved in wheelchair service delivery. An important aim of the training package is to get it integrated into the regular paramedical/reha...bilitation training programs such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, prosthetics and orthotics, rehabilitation nursing. Towards this, WHO is posting the whole training package in the Website for the training institutes and wheelchair service providers. The easiest way to make use of the training package is to download the complete package (requires 3 GB space).
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This guide is designed to support mid-level rehabilitation workers on work with infants, children and young adults ...ght medbox">with spina bifida and hydrocephalus and their families. The manual includes information on the types, signs and causes of spina bifida and hydrocephalus, assessment of the level of development of those affected, and suggestions to promote normal development, mobility and self-care
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This guide is intended for mid-level rehabilitation workers on work with people who have suffere...d a stroke and their families. The guide contains advice on how to plan and conduct rehabilitation activities for those who have had a stroke to promote their independence in all aspects of daily life
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This manual is intended for mid-level rehabilitation workers on work with children with communic...ation difficulties and their families. The manual contains information on general aspects of communication, causes of communication impairment, sample assessments, and advice for parents and those involved in the training of health and education workers. You can download section by section from the website
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This guide is designed to support mid-level rehabilitation workers on work with children with ce...rebral palsy and their families. The manual includes information on early detection and assessment of the level of development of the child, equipment to support their needs and suggestions to promote mobility and improved communication. You can download this guide in Arabic and Italian, too
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A project of the FIGO Committee for Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights (WSRR)
The manual provides suggestions for implementing the checklist, understanding that different practice settings will adapt it to their own circumstances.
The implementation manual is designed to help ensure that surgical teams are able to implement... the checklist consistently. By following a few critical steps, health care professionals can minimize the most common and avoidable risks endangering the lives and well-being of surgical patients
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WHO clinical and policy guidelines
The guidelines address timing, number and place of postnatal contacts, and content of postnatal care for all mothers and babies during the six weeks after birth. The primary audience for these guidelines is health professionals ...e-to-highlight medbox">who are responsible for providing postnatal care to women and newborns, primarily in areas where resources are limited. The guidelines are also expected to be used by policy-makers and managers of maternal and child health programmes, health facilities, and teaching institutions to set up and maintain maternity and newborn care services.
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The objectives of these WHO guidelines are to provide updated evidence- based recommendations for the treatment of persons with hepatitis C infection using, ...x">where possible, all DAA-only combinations. The guidelines also provide recommendations on the preferred regimens based on a patient’s HCV genotype and clinical history, and assess the appropriateness of continued use of certain medicines. This document also includes existing recommendations on screening for HCV infection and care of persons infected with HCV that were first issued in 2014
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This interim guidance is aimed at healthcare workers who may receive patients
exposed to chemical weapons at their healthcare facilities.
It pr...ovides questions to guide the identification of contaminated patients,
recommendations on personal protection, procedures for decontamination,
guidance for triage and identification of categories of exposure, and treatment
regimens for individual chemicals.
Arabic version available: http://www.who.int/environmental_health_emergencies/deliberate_events/interim_guidance_ar.pdf
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