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Report: Cross Country Learning on Community Health System Integration and Financing

The document titled Report: Cross Country Learning on Community Health System Integration and Financing offers a comprehensive insight into Community Health, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Community Health
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World report on violence and health 2002

This, the firstWorld report on violence and health, is an important part of WHO��s response to Resolution WHA49.25. It is aimed mainly at researchers and practitioners. The latter include health care workers, social workers, those involved in developing and implementing prevention programmes and ser...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Gender Based Violence
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Guidelines for Community Health Departments for hospitals

The health status of the Ugandan population is poor, with infant mortality rate of 97/1000 live birth (UDHS 1995) and Maternal mortality rate of 506/1000 live birth.The health status indicators reflect slow improvement over the past years.

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Community Health
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Situation analysis Village Health Teams 2009

Village Health Teams are community health workers and volunteers, who serve their communities and carry out health promotion and social mobilisation activities. They also carry out a range of health interventions across the spectrum of health, water and sanitation, disease surveillance and they also...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Community Health
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World report on disability 2011.

In response to this situation, the World Health Assembly (resolution 58.23 on ��Disability, including prevention, management and rehabilitation��) requested the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General to produce a World report on disability based on the best available scientific evidence. T...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
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World Report on Vision 2019

The World report on vision seeks to stimulate action in countries to address these challenges by proposing integrated people-centred eye care (IPCEC) as an approach to health system strengthening that builds the foundation for service delivery to address population needs

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
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Prevention of deafness and hearing loss

Globally, 360 million people (about 5% of the world��s population) live with disabling hearing loss, of whom 32 million are children. The prevalence of hearing loss increases from 1.7% among children to 7% in adults (including 183 million males and 145 million females).1 Nearly 180 million people ag...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
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Systematic Assessment of Rehabilitation Situation (STARS) in Uganda

This STARS in Uganda report, presents a comprehensive analysis and report on the national assessment of the rehabilitation and assistive technologies system in Uganda that was guided by the WHO Systematic Assessment of Rehabilitation Situation (STARS) approach.

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
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Uganda Functional Difficulties Survey 2017

The Uganda Functional Difficulties Survey (UFDS) 2017 was conducted by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) with the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) to generate information and data on persons with disabilities in Uganda to inform planning, budgeting, implementation, moni...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
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Disability statistics 2016 Annual report

The Annual Report highlights state and trend data from national sources. A specific listing of source data for each figure is included in Appendix B. There is a great deal of variability in rates of people with disabilities by state and the Annual Report includes maps to highlight this information....

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
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Primary ear and hearing care training resource.

The purpose of this basic level training resource is to assist with the training of primary ear and hearing workers in developing countries, especially focused on Village Health Care Workers. The role of the village health care worker is vitally important for the prevention of ear and hearing disord...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
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Health Sector Newsletter

The second issue of the Health Sector Newsletter is here! This issue covers the months of June to October which saw the sector making significant progress towards the achievement of both its programmatic and institutional objectives. In here you will find a mixture of news, features and insights on...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Community Health
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Guidelines to Implement the Policy on Prevention and Response to Sexual Harassment

These guidelines provide guidance on definition of sexual harassment; applicable legal and policy frameworks; and outline strategies for prevention and response services and implementation mechanism for addressing sexual harassment in the health sector. The guidelines also provide detailed response...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Gender Based Violence
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Health Sector Newsletter

Greetings and a warm welcome to our very first issue of the Health Sector Newsletter! We couldn��t be more excited to have made it to this point. In this issue, we bring you updates on the infrastructural development, public health policies and programs, a closer insight into the Internationally acc...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Community Health
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Disabled Village Children A guide for community health workers, rehabilitation workers, and families

This book has been a cooperative effort. Many persons have contributed in different ways. Some have helped to write or rewrite different sections; some have criticized early drafts; some have used it in their programs and sent us feedback; some have sent original ideas or technologies that we have t...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Disability and Rehabilitation
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Integrated Management of Pregnancy and Childbirth, Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum and Newborn Care: A guide for essential practice

The aim of Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and newborn care guide for essential practice (PCPNC) is to provide evidence-based recommendations to guide health care professionals in the management of women during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, and post abortion, and newborns during their firs...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Gender Based Violence
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New threats to Human Security in the Anthropocene Demanding greater solidarity, 2022 Special Report

As the Covid-19 pandemic got under way, the world�had been reaching unprecedented heights on the�Human Development Index (HDI). People were, on�average, living healthier, wealthier and better lives�for longer than ever. But under the surface a growing�sense of insecurity had been taking root. An est...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Human Rights
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Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, 2018

The Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2018 puts the spotlight on human trafficking in armed conflict. Human trafficking is always a crime, committed with the intention to exploit; in conflict situations, characterized by violence, brutality and coercion, traffickers can operate with even great...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Human Rights
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Africa CDC Mastercard Foundation: Saving Lives and Livelihoods Newsletter, June 2023

Currently, 14 African nations have vaccinated 70 percent of their eligible population with the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the WHO Tanzania and São Tomé and Príncipe have fully vaccinated their populations, while Botswana has immunised 94 percent of theirs. Mauritius, Seychelles, and Somalia hav...

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Community Health
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Mainstreaming Human Rights and Gender in the Health Sector Trainee Manual

This manual is organised as two units in one module. Unit one focuses on human rights and health, and Unit Two discusses gender and health. The human rights Unit covers the existing international, regional, and national legal and policy frameworks and principles relating to health and human rights....

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Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Human Rights
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