The State of the World's Midwifery
In order to meet changing global population needs and consumer expectations, healthcare systems worldwide are under transformation and face restruc...turing. As systems adapt and shift their emphasis in response to the disparate requests for healthcare services, oppor-tunities emerge for nurses, especially the APN, to meet these demands and unmet needs (Bryant-Lukosius et al. 2017; Carryer et al. 2018; Cassiani & Zug 2014; Cooper & Docherty 2018; Hill et al. 2017; Maier et al.2017). In 2002, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) pro-vided an official position on Advanced Practice Nursing (ICN 2008a). Since that time, worldwide development has increased significantly and simultaneously this field of nursing has matured. ICN felt that a review of its position was needed to assess the relevance of the definition and characteristics offered in 2002. This guid-ance paper defines diverse elements such as assump-tions and core components of the APN. The attributes and descriptors presented in this paper are intended to promote a common vision to continue to enable a greater understanding by the international nursing and healthcare communities for the development of roles commonly identified as Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) and Nurse Practitioner (NP).
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DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 115
Results from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey
Save the Children in collaboration with the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the state National Health Mission (NHM) undertook this study in the urban slums ...light medbox">of Bhubaneswar city to generate learnings for designing a city-specific public health approach to improve MNH services for the urban poor.
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Technical guidance.
This technical guidance aims to inform policy and practice development specifically related to improving the health of older r...efugees and migrants within the European Union and the larger WHO European Region. Both ageing and migration are in themselves complex multidimensional processes shaped by a range of factors at the micro, meso and macro levels over the life-course of the individual, but also with intertwined trajectories. Relevant areas for policy-making include healthy ageing over the life-course, supportive environments, people-centred health and long-term care services, and strengthening the evidence base and research
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Lancet Glob Health 2021; 9: e782–92
Lunsar, Port Loko District, Sierra Leone
Save the Children in collaboration with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the state National Health Mission (NHM) undertook this study in the urban slums ...edbox">of Pune City to generate learnings for designing a city-specific public health approach to improve MNH services for the urban poor.
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The Atlas of health and climate is a product of this unique collaboration between the meteorolog...ical and public health communities. It provides sound scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and major health challenges. These range from diseases of poverty to emergencies arising from extreme weather events and disease outbreaks. They also include environmental degradation, the increasing prevalence of noncommunicable diseases and the universal trend of demographic ageing.
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Regional situation analysis, practices, experiences, lessons learned and ways forward.