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Lessons learned in developing community mental health care in Latin American and Caribbean countries

Denise Razzouk , Guilherme Gregório, Renato Antunes, Jair de Jesus Mari (World Psychiatry (2012) CC

This paper summarizes the findings for the Latin American and Caribbean countries of the WPA Task Force on Steps, Obstacles and Mistakes to Avoid in the Implementation of Community Mental Health Care... more

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Sensitizing health workers to providing responsive care for adolescents and young people living with HIV

H. Soeters; D. Mark; A. Ronan; et al. World Health Organization; Unicef; Pata (2019) C_WHO

Accessed: 08.10.2019

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Age-friendly Primary Health Care (PHC) Centres Toolkit

World Health Organization WHO (2008) C_WHO

The toolkit's purpose is to: improve the primary health care response for older persons. sensitize and educate primary health ... workers about the specific needs of their older clients. provide primary care health workers with a set of tools/instruments to assess older people's health. raise awareness among primary care health workers of the accumulation of minor/major disabilities experienced by older people. provide guidance on how to make primary health care management procedures more responsive to the needs of older people's needs. offer direction on how to do environmental audits to test primary health care centres for their age-friendliness. The toolkit comprises a number of instruments (evaluation forms, slides, figures, graphs, diagrams, scale tables, country guidelines, exam sheets, screening tools, cards, checklists, etc.) that can be used by primary health care workers to assess and address older persons' health. These resources are meant to supplement and not to replace local and national materials and guidelines more

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Women’s Access to Health Care in Afghanistan

Human Rights Watch (2021) CC

Over the past two decades, Afghanistan has depended on international donor support to fund essential services like health care. But this donor support has been falling for years and will likely to c... more

Update 68 – Health and care workers during COVID-19
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World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Update 68

Checklist for assessing quality of healthcare - Hospitals

Kenya Ministry of Health (2021) C1

Kenya Quality Model for Health - Hospitals

Buruli ulcer : diagnosis of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease : a manual for health care providers

F. Portaels; Johnson, P.; Meyers, W. World Health Organization WHO (2001) CC

This manual is to assist health care providers and laboratory scientists to diagnose mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer). The manual aims to achieve a better understanding of the clinical ... more

Buruli ulcer : management of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease : a manual for health care providers
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J. Buntine; Crofts, K. World Health Organization WHO (2001) CC

This manual is addressed to health care providers dealing with Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer). The manual aims to achieve a better understanding of the disease, its clinical presentat... more

A primary health care approach to obesity prevention and management in children and adolescents: policy brief

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Obesity in all age groups, including children and adolescents, is a public health challenge across all settings. Obesity is now classified as a complex multifactorial chronic disease and not just a risk factor for other noncommunicable diseases and ... more

Engaging health and care workers in health emergencies: implementation toolkit

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

The active participation and engagement of health and care workers (‎HCWs)‎ in health emergency preparedness, readiness and response is crucial... more

Progress of selected Community Health Centres in achieving Basic Emergency Obstetric & Neonatal Care (BEmONC) status, December 2014

MamaYe Sierra Leone (2014) C1

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Coaching Community Health Volunteers in Integrated Community Case Management Improves the Care of Sick Children Under-5: Experience from Bondo, Kenya

Wandabwa, M.S. ; Kabue M., Kasungami D., et al. , (2018) C1

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 more

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Training community healthcare workers on the use of information and communication technologies: a randomised controlled trial of traditional versus blended learning in Malawi, Africa

Nikolaos Mastellos, Tammy Tran, Kanika Dharmayat et al. BMC Medical Education (2018) CC

Despite the increasing uptake of information and communication technologies (ICT) within healthcare services across developing countries, community healthcare workers (CHWs) have limited knowledge t... more

El impacto de la pandemia de COVID-19 en la salud mental de los trabajadores de la salud en Chile: datos iniciales de The Health Care Workers Study

Alvarado R., Ramírez J. et al (2021) C2

Background: Healthcare workers’ mental health was affected by SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Aim: To evaluate healthcare workers’ mental ... and its associated factors during the pandemic in Chile. Material and Methods: An online self-reported questionnaire was designed including the Goldberg Health Questionnaire, the Patient Health Questionnaire, (PHQ-9), and the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale among other questions. It was sent to 28,038 healthcare workers. Results: The questionnaire was answered by 1,934 participants, with a median age of 38 years (74% women). Seventy five percent were professionals, and 48% worked at a hospital. Fifty nine percent of respondents had a risk of having a mental health disorder, and 73% had depressive symptoms. Significant associations were found with sex, workplace, and some of the relevant experiences during the pandemic. Fifty one percent reported the need for mental health support, and 38% of them received it. Conclusions: There is a high percentage of health workers with symptoms of psychological distress, depression, and suicidal ideas. The gender approach is essential to understand the important differences found. Many health workers who required mental health care did not seek or received it. more

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Packages of Interventions for Family Planning, Safe Abortion care, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

WHO (2010)

Sexual and Reproductive Health

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Interim Infection Prevention and Control Guidance for Care of Patients with Suspected or Confirmed Filovirus Haemorrhagic Fever in Health-Care Settings, with Focus on Ebola
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World Health Organization (2014)

This document provides a summary of infection control recommendations when providing direct and non-direct care to patients with suspected or confirmed Filovirus haemorrhagic fever (HF), including Ebola or Marburg haemorrhagic fevers. These recommen... more