What is the guidance for vaccination of women with breastfeeding infants, women who are pregnant or planning to get pregnant and women who are menstruating? What about vaccines and fertility? WHO’s Dr Soumya Swaminathan explains in Science in 5.
The CHW Toolkit assists the assessment, improvement, and planning of CHW programs by deepening understanding of the elements of successful programs and the use of best practices as an evidence-based approach to improvement. The toolkit is framed aro...und ten key themes that describe the definition, entry level, age, gender, recruitment, training, scope of work, supervision, career progression, entry level and remuneration of CHWs.
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The CVIC tool is the WHO-UNICEF tool designed to assist countries in the process of planning and costing COVID-19 vaccination. The aim of this course is to demonstrate the use of the CVIC tool. The course is targeting national programme managers and... personnel who have been involved in the costing, budgeting or financing processes of COVID-19 vaccine delivery in a country.
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011 - Biogeochemical Cycles
In this video Paul Andersen explains how biogeochemical cycles move required nutrients through the abiotic and biotic spheres on our planet. Matter on the Earth is conserved so producers must receive required nutrient...s through the water cycle, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, phosphorus cycle, and sulfur cycle.
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O Ministério da Saúde é o órgão do Poder Executivo Federal responsável pela organização e elaboração de planos e políticas públicas voltados para a promoção, a prevenção e a assistência à saúde dos brasil...eiros.
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The Africa Scorecard on Domestic Financing for Health is an advocacy tool for member states to use in financial planning and expenditure tracking. It is a tool for measuring only AIDS, TB and malaria spending and is intended to measure only the Abuj...a Declaration 15% target.
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Comprehensive and comparable estimates of health spending in each country are a key input for health
policy and planning, and are necessary to support the achievement of national and international health goals. Previous
studies have tracked past a...nd projected future health spending until 2040 and shown that, with economic development,
countries tend to spend more on health per capita, with a decreasing share of spending from development assistance
and out-of-pocket sources. We aimed to characterise the past, p
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The International Cancer Control Partnership (ICCP) is a group of international organisations engaged in cancer control planning efforts. The Partners are seeking to create synergies to maximize collective res...ources and efforts to support the development, implementation and evaluation of national cancer control plans.
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These guidelines deal specifically with water, sanitation and hygiene, and are designed to be used in schools in low-cost settings in low- and medium-resource countries to:
• assess prevailing situations and plan for required improvements;
• ...develop and reach essential safety standards as a first goal; and
• support the development and application of national policies.
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Important Guideline for Ebola prevention and control
It is designed for the following uses:
- for prevention through preparedness--to help African health facilities make advance preparations for responding with appropriate precautions when a VHF (including Ebola) case is suspected.
- for ...pan class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">planning and conducting in-service training to strengthen standard precautions and VHF isolation precautions.
- as a rapid reference when a VHF (i.e. Ebola) case appears at a health facility where no previous VHF preparations have been made.
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Specific action sheets offer useful guidance on mental health and psychosocial support and cover the following areas coordination assessment monitoring and evaluation protection and human rights standards human resources community mobilisation and support health services education dissemination of i...nformation food security and nutrition shelter and site planning and water and sanitationthe guidelines include a matrix with guidance for emergency planning actions to be taken in the early stages of an emergency and comprehensive responses needed in the recovery and rehabilitation phases
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This flipbook, released in Nov. 2011, contains key messages that pregnant women and their families need in order to plan care of an infant at home right after birth. It focuses on essential actions families can take both to prevent newborn death and... illness and to promote healthy newborn development.
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This guide is an attempt to redress the deficit in understanding of implementation research and to encourage programme personnel and implementers to take a greater interest in the subject, recognizing that implementation research is in fact an integral part of programme ...hlight medbox">planning and execution, rather than something that happens once programmes are up and running. Intended for newcomers to the field, those already conducting implementation research, and those with responsibility for implementing programmes, the guide provides an introduction to basic implementation research concepts and language, briefly outlines what it involves, and describes the many exciting opportunities that it presents
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These guidelines provide specific recommendations and expert suggestions — for national policy-makers and programme managers and their partners and stakeholders— on prioritizing, planning and providing HIV testing, counselling, treatment and car...e services for adolescents
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In this guideline, natural ventilation is considered
among one the effective measures to control infections in health care. This guideline provides
a design and operation guide for hospital planners, engineers, architects and infection control...
personnel. The recommendations in this guideline followed a systematic
review of the literature on the association of ventilation and disease transmission, as well
as effective natural ventilation solutions for infection control.
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These policy guidelines provide a strategic approach and new recommendations for integrated TB and HIV services for patients suffering from substance-abuse addiction. The key recommendations fall under three main categories: joint planning, key inte...rventions, and overcoming barriers.
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This guide is intended for mid-level rehabilitation workers on work with people who have suffered a stroke and their families. The guide contains advice on how to plan and conduct rehabilitation activities for those who have had a stroke to promote ...their independence in all aspects of daily life
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Humanitarian crises can affect women, men, girls and boys in radically different ways. To address the different impacts of conflict and disasters on each group and promote the potential for positive transformation of gender norms, Oxfam calls for humanitarian agencies to analyse, ...ute-to-highlight medbox">plan, and respond to crises in ways that address practical gender needs and promote women’s rights. Oxfam is committed to promoting gender equality and preventing gender-based violence, through the implementation of its Minimum Standards for Gender in Emergencies. In addition, the promotion of gender equality must be central to the broader efforts to protect civilians and manage and prevent conflict and armed violence.
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Las presentes Directrices para el Abordaje del VIH en Contextos de Asistencia Humanitaria tienen el propósito de ayudar a las organizaciones de asistencia humanitaria y VIH a planificar la administración de un conjunto mínimo de servicios de prev...ención, tratamiento, atención y apoyo para el VIH a las personas afectadas por crisis humanitarias.
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Esta guía ofrece al personal de salud y a los integrantes del
Comité Operativo de Emergencia recomendaciones prácticas
para facilitar su trabajo en los preparativos para desastres.
Presenta los principales aspectos para elaborar un Plan Local ...de
Emergencia para el sector salud, un instrumento básico en los
preparativos del sector, que se realiza mediante un proceso alta-
mente participativo entre los actores del sector salud y la comunidad.
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