This new publication presents the continuing and emerging challenges to children’s environmental health.
This checklist covers five areas of competence needed by health care providers to provide quality of care in contraceptive information and services including: respecting users’ privacy and guaranteeing contfidentiality, choice, accessible and acceptable services, involvement of users in improving ...services and fostering continuity of care and follow-up.
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The purpose of the job aids is to provide guidance to AIDSFree health promoters in-country on how to carry out targeted Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) awareness and advocacy meetings with local leaders, religious leaders, and famous influential people in the community.
Individual psychological help for adults impaired by distress in communities exposed to adversity.
The manual describes a scalable psychological intervention called Problem Management Plus (PM+) for adults impaired by distress in communities who are exposed to adversity. Aspects of Cognitive Behavi...oural Therapy (CBT) have been changed to make them feasible in communities that do not have many specialists. To ensure maximum use, the intervention is developed in such a way that it can help people with depression, anxiety and stress, whether or not exposure to adversity has caused these problems. It can be applied to improve aspects of mental health and psychosocial well-being no matter how severe people’s problems are.
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The Countdown country profile presents in one place the best and latest evidence to enable an assessment of a country’s progress in improving reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH)
This Book addresses most common mental disorders reported in Bangladesh. It uses simple terms, language and examples for better understanding of the problems related to mental health.
The first step of the prevention starts from a family and family members are most important players in order to ide...ntifying someone within a family suffering from mental disorders. This guidebook will help family members to identify the symptoms of mental disorders at an early stage, thereby allowing early intervention.
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Mental disorders are important public health concern in Bangladesh with a substantial treatment gap due to shortage of resources and trained relevant professionals, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, social psychologists, psychiatric nurses and occupational therapists.
This manual is developed i...n Bangla focusing on common mental disorders prevailing in Bangladesh. The objective of the initiative is to build the capacity of nurses and paramedics to identify common mental disorders and to take appropriate steps including referral.
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