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Ethiopian Hospital service transformation Guidelines: Chapter 10 Pharmacy Service: Ethiopian Hospital Management Initiative

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia -Ministry of Health (2017) C1

The Ethiopian Hospital Services Transformation Guidelines (EHSTG) build on and expand the Ethiopian Hospital Reform Implementation Guidelines (EHRIG) and are consistent with the Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP). The EHSTG, which is consistent with the national focu... more

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United Republic of Tanzania and Kenya’s simulation of Rift Valley fever outbreak yields valuable lessons: case study

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

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Association between Ambient Temperature and Hospitalization for Renal Diseases in Brazil during 2000–2015: A Nationwide Case-Crossover Study

Bo Wen, Rongbin Xu, Yao Wu, Micheline de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho et al. The Lancet Regional Health – Americas (2021) CC

Climate change is increasing the risks of injuries, diseases, and deaths globally. However, the association between ambient temperature and renal diseases has not been fully characterized. This study aimed to quantify the risk and attributable burden for hospitalizations of renal diseases related to... more

Impact of COVID-19 on human resources for health and policy response: the case of Plurinational State of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

World Health Organization & Pan American Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

The overview of findings from five Latin American countries

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Progressing the Sustainable Development Goals through Health in All Policies: Case studies from around the world

Lin V.; Kickbusch I.; Baer B. World Health Organisation WHO (2021) C_WHO

Health in All Policies (HiAP) is not a new concept. While the term “HiAP” has received much attention since the 1990s, the concept of working across sectors of government for improved population health and wellbeing is much older than that. Over the last few decades the term has been applied t... more

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Unpacking the Theory Behind One Health Food Safety Programs: A Vietnam Case Study

S. Lam, Nguyen H. T. T., Tuan H. N. H., et al. (2021) CC

Front. Vet. Sci., 01 December 2021

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Training and deployment of Key Informants (KIs) for case finding for children with severe visual impairment and blindness and Improving the follow up of children after cataract and other surgeries

Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology KCCO (2022) CC

The WHO estimates that 19 million children aged 15 years or younger are visually impaired. Of these, 1.4 million are irreversibly blind and need visual rehabilitation interventions for full psychological and personal development. The remainder have visual problems that could be prevented or treated.... more

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Vector-borne diseases: a handbook for pharmacists - Disease prevention, control, management and treatment

Gromek K., Hung M., Montero N. et al International Pharmaceutical Federation FIP (2020) C2

The Pharmaceutical Forum of the Americas (PFA) has previously published guidelines and organised campaigns for community pharmacists on the prevention, detection and control of arbovirus infections in 2018 with a grant from the FIP Foundation for Pharmacy Education and Research. Building on that exp... 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 comorbidities. Recognizing the significance of prim... more

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Effectiveness of community health worker training programmes for cardiovascular disease management in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Abdel-All, M; Putica, B.; Praveen, D. et al. BMJ Open (2017) CC

Introduction Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly being tasked to prevent and manage cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its risk factors in underserved populations in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs); however, little is known about the required training necessary for them to ... more

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Implementation of a Mental Health Care Package for Children in Areas of Armed Conflict: A Case Study from Burundi, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Sudan

M. J. D. Jordans; W. A. Tol; D. Susanty; et al. PLOS Medicine (2013) CC

PLOS Medicine | www.plosmedicine.org January 2013 | Volume 10 | Issue 1 | e1001371

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Economic Evaluation of Community Based Practitioners In Low-And Middle-Income Countries - A literature review, country case studies and a generalized cost-effectiveness model

global health workforce alliance World Health Organization (2015) C_WHO

Community-based strategies play a significant role in many health systems in low- and middle-income countries, especially in light of critical shortages in the health workforce. The term community health worker has been used to refer to volunteers and salaried, professional or lay health workers wit... more

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IMAI district clinician manual: hospital care for adolescents and adults: guidelines for the management of illnesses with limited-resources. Vol. 2
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World Health Organization WHO (2011) C_WHO

The manual is written for clinicians working at the district hospital (first-level referral care) who diagnose and manage sick adolescents and adults in resource constrained settings. It aims to support clinical reasoning, and to provide an effective clinical approach and protocols for the ... of common and serious or potentially life-threatening conditions at district hospitals. The target audience thus includes doctors, clinical officers, health officers, and senior nurse practitioners. It has been designed to be applicable in both high and low HIV prevalence settings. Volume 2 provides a symptom-based approach to clinical care for acute and subacute conditions (including mental health). It provides short summaries of the management of diseases that affect multiple systems of the body, focusing on communicable diseases. It also includes the chronic or long-term management of HIV, TB, alcohol, and substance use disorders. more

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Guidelines for Health Staff Caring for Gender-based Violence Survivors: Including Protocol for Clinical Management of Rape [EN]

UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Protection Cluster, Health Cluster (2016) C1

Gender-based violence, including rape is a problem throughout the world, occurring in every society, country and region. Refugees and internally displaced people are particularly at risk of this violation during every phase of an emergency situation. The systematic use of sexual violence as a method... more

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Assessing the risks of Migration along the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Routes: Iraq and Nigeria as Case Study Countries

Department for International Development, International Organization for Migration (2016) C1

The report is based on in-depth qualitative research in countries along the Eastern and Central Mediterranean routes. It focuses on Iraqi and Nigerian migrants as case studies, as Nigeria is the number one country of origin for migrants travelling a... more