Module 10: The Roles of Families, Community and the Health Care System in Prevention and Care for Women with Obstetric Fistula
A Community Guide to Environmental Health > Chapter 19: Health Care Waste. Please download this chapter from the website of Hesperian
Colour poster. Aimed at community in Sierra Leone. Explains principles of contact tracing in a simple manner.
For versions in Arabic, Russian, French, Spanish, Turkish and German go to http://www.patienten-information.de/kurzinformationen/diabetes/diabetes-und-augen
BMC Family Practice201415:165, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-15-165
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Operational Guidelines. Revised Edition
Value in Health Regional Issues 4 C (2014) 37-40
Die Pflegetipps der Deutschen Palliativstiftung enthalten das Rüstzeug zur Versorgung von pflegebedürftigen Menschen, die an einer nicht heilbaren Krankheit leiden. 16. Auflage
guide for palliative care, available in english, serbian, dutch, cr...oatian, russian, turkish, romanian, slovenian, french, portugüse, spanish, czech, italian and bilingual german - arabic/polish/english/slovakian/czech/turkish
http://www.palliativstiftung.de/publikationen/die-pflegetipps-palliative-care/
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Doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and first-aiders are coming under attack while trying to save lives. They are threatened, arrested or beaten, their hospitals looted or bombed. Some are unable to work because medical supplies can’t get through; some are forced to flee for their lives. Some are e...ven killed.
Attacks on health-care personnel, facilities and vehicles during armed conflict are wrong. They are prohibited under international humanitarian law (also known as the law of war), because they deprive sick and wounded people of much-needed care.
Preventing violence against health care is a matter of life and death.
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Primary care visits may be a time that refugee families express concerns about their child’s functioning at home or school and/or providers may identify concerns about emotional or behavioral health. Most refugee children have experienced trauma w...hich may affect their emotional, behavioral, and physical development. However, many refugee children are resilient
and may not exhibit symptoms related to trauma.
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PLoS Medicine Vol. 6 no. 10 (2009) e1000165
The ICOPE Implementation Framework provides a score card to help assess the overall capacity of health and social care services and systems to deliver integrated care in community settings and suppo...rt the development of ICOPE implementation action plans. There are 19 actions needed to implement ICOPE on the services level (meso) and systems level (macro). The scoring process provides an evidence-based means of highlighting areas for improvement as well as establishing concrete measures of future improvements
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The European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 28, No. 1, 145–149
The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:...//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckx122 Advance Access published on 31 August 2017
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Technical Brief
HIV patient monitoring and case surveillance
WHO/HIV/2017.12