A major objective of this open access book is to summarize the current status of Buruli Ulcer (BU) research for the first time. It will identify gaps in our knowledge, stimulate research and support
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control of the disease by providing insight into approaches for surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment of Buruli Ulcer. Book chapters will cover the history, epidemiology diagnosis, treatment and disease burden of BU and provide insight into the microbiology, genomics, transmission and virulence of Mycobacterium ulcerans. ; Supports further investigation by summarizing state of the art in the field of Buruli ulcer research Enriches understanding of epidemiology of Buruli ulcer in different geographic regions Reviews exhaustively the characteristics of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease
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Free access from the website http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1411100. Please open the link and download the pdf-file
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Open Access. Please download the pdf-file from the website!
The Lancet DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32092-5
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WASH FIT Digital is a free, open-access digital tool, based on the WASH FIT guide developed by WHO and UNICEF. WASH FIT is designed to help health care facilities improve quality of care through imp
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roved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). Built on the mWater digital monitoring platform, WASH FIT Digital includes a set of forms for implementing a risk-based management approach developed by WHO and UNICEF. The site also includes a dashboard to visualize the process and keep track of progress
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Welcome to Global Pharmacovigilance. This is an open-access collaborative forum for sharing experiences, knowledge and tools relating to pharmacovigilance and other patient/research participant safe
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ty-related issues.
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PloS NTD January 2010 | Volume 4 | Issue 1 | e603. Open Access pleae download from the website
Globalization and Health 2014, 10:1. Open Access. Please download fromm the website
Neurology, Published online before print 15 Jul 2016. Open Access
Available in 90 languages!
Parenting for Lifelong Health provides open-access online parenting resources during COVID-19. We are working with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNODC, the Glo
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bal Partnership to End Violence Against Children, USAID, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Without Orphans, the World Childhood Foundation, the Internet of Good Things and Clowns Without Borders South Africa.
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The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) is delighted to announce the publication of Environmental Health in Nursing an open access textbook for nurses and other health professionals.
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Leading environmental health nursing experts have joined together to share their environmental health knowledge, expertise and experiences. The book offers essential information for nurses new to the topics as well as those with advanced environmental health experience. What is so exciting about this book is that our electronic format provides direct links to authoritative resources such as the EPA, ToxNet and WHO. In addition it provides ease of accessing information because of the electronic search features. We want this to be a living document and we welcome ideas for new topics and potential authors in subsequent editions.
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Plos Neglected Tropical Diaseses, vol. 5 (2011) Issue 7 e1233. Open Access. Please download from the website
Paediatrics and International Child Health 2013 VOL. 33 NO. 4, pp.259-272. Open Access.
Epidemiol Infect. May 2007; 135(4): 610–621. . Please click on the website link and download the pdf-file. Open Access
Clincial Excellence for Nursing Care, Vol. 2 (1998) no.6 pp.-343-351. Open Access with the permission of the publisher and the author.
Ebola continues to attract worldwide attention as a highly let
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hal virus of unknown origin that leaves victims bleeding to death and has no known vaccine or cure. The purpose of this historical research was to review and analyze the primary and secondary sources available on Ebola for use by primary care nurses in the event of future outbreaks.
You could send comments to the author: susanamundsen@comcast.net
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In this video we show you how to search, browse or find the relevant documents and information in MEDBOX-The Aid Library. This video is part of a "How to use MEDBOX" video series.
MEDBOX -The Aid Library is an open-
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access online library aiming to increase the quality of health care worldwide.
Videoclip Series "MEDBOX - The Aid Library" no.2
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Worldwide, around 2.3 billion people still cook using solid fuels (such as wood, crop waste, charcoal, coal and dung) and kerosene in open fires and inefficient stoves. Most of these people are poor and live in low- and middle-income countries. Ther
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e is a large discrepancy in access to cleaner cooking alternatives between urban and rural areas: in 2021, only 14% of people in urban areas relied on polluting fuels and technologies, compared with 49% of the global rural population.
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The ongoing Ebola epidemic in parts of West Africa largely overwhelmed health-care systems in 2014, making adequate care for malaria impossible and threatening the gains in malaria control achieved over the past decade. The study suggests that untreated malaria cases as a result of reduced health-ca
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re capacity probably contributed substantially to the morbidity caused by the Ebola crisis. Mass drug administration can be an effective means to mitigate this burden and reduce the number of non-Ebola fever cases within health systems
Open Access through Wellcome Trust
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PLoS Negl Trop Dis 10(3): e0004530 -Published: March 2, 2016
This paper reviews the status of the Zika virus outbreak, including medical countermeasureoptions, with a focus on how the epidemiology, insect vectors, neuropathology, virology and immunology inform options and strategies available for m
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edical countermeasure development and deployment.
Please download directly from the website Open Access: http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0004530.PDF
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2nd edition.
The book is aimed at general health workers in low- and middle-income country settings and has some chapters on perinatal mental health. That said, it has definite applicability in high-income country settings too! In the new edition, there has been a big expansion of the psychosocial
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interventions. Thanks to your advocacy for such a resource being open-access (as the first edition was not), the book is freely available for download: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/where-there-is-no-psychiatrist/47578A845CAFC7E23A181749A4190B54
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