BMC Family Practice (2017) 18:56 DOI 10.1186/s12875-017-0628
HelpAge International is a global network of organisations promoting the right of all older people to lead dignified, healthy and secure lives. Convite is a humanitarian, independent, nonprofit, non-governmental organisation that works to guarantee and promote social, economic and cultural rights ac...ross Venezuela and is a new member of the HelpAge Global Network. Convite provides direct support to older people, as well as assisting the National Committee of the Pensioned and Retired of Venezuela as part of the Latin American Democracy Network. One of the organisation’s main objectives is to the raise the profile of the crisis in the country internationally.
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47460246_Mental_illness-stigma_and_discrimination_in_Zambia
Q13: Are strategies aimed at improving community attitudes towards mental, neurological and substance use conditions (e.g. anti-stigma campaigns) feasible and effective?
The compendium provides guidance on low-cost handwashing facilities that can be widely used in low and middle-income countries. We hope that this can be shared extensively as governments and agencies tackle the crisis in low and middle-income countries where handwashing facilities are urgently neede...d in households, communities, schools and healthcare facilities.
The compendium includes information and further reading on: handwashing facilities – including facilities that are accessible for all, environmental cues to reinforce handwashing behaviours, physical distancing hygiene promotion.
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Refugee protection in the country is provided within the framework of these international and national refugee laws as well as the core international human rights treaties that have been ratified by the country. Continued insecurity within neighbouring states has resulted in sustained refugee moveme...nts, either directly as a result of internal conflict and human rights abuses or as a result of conflict related to competition for scare natural resources and drought related food insecurity.
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BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:191 https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-14-191
GUIDELINES ON LEPROSY CONTROL IN SOUTH AFRICA | 2011
Brief review of selected topics
The following pages provide a focus on selected areas in relation to neurology. The specialists who contributed the reviews are listed in the Project Team and Partners
Neurology Atlas (2004)
Providing community-based mental health services position paper
В настоящем документе проводится анализ международного права по проблематике прав человека с целью обеспечить законодателей, разработчиков политики, специалист...в, работающих в сфере охраны психического здоровья, и активистов неправительственных организаций информацией об обязанностях государств, которые должны быть отражены во внутреннем законодательстве по охране психического здоровья и правам инвалидов. В документе рассматриваются некоторые важнейшие права, базирующиеся на конвенциях, и стандарты Организации Объединенных Наций по правам человека, такие как Принципы ПБ и Стандартные правила. В документе показано, как эти стандарты можно использовать в качестве руководства по обеспечению соблюдения требований международных конвенций о правах человека.
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Member States of the Region have initiated processes to strengthen leadership and governance for mental health. Several countries have developed and implemented mental health plans, strategies and legislations. Direct spending on mental health needs to be increased throughout the Region through the ...health sector as well as other relevant sectors.
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