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Preventing drowning: an implementation guide

This guide provides practical steps to reduce drowning - one of the world��s most preventable, neglected and pressing public health issues. Through 10 evidence-based interventions and strategies it is designed to help drowning-prevention practitioners - from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Environmental Health and Sanitation
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 13 hours ago 150 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Senegal

The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Senegal offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014

This report examines the latest progress towards achieving the MDGs. It reaffirms that the MDGs have made a profound difference in people��s lives. Global poverty has been halved five years ahead of the 2015 timeframe.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 168 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Communicating the Economics of Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities

The strong links between socio-economic factors or public policies and health were documented in the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health report. Yet even when health and health equity are seen as important markers of development, expressing the benefits of soc...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 7 hours ago 167 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2015.

The present report of the Board for 2015 contains a thematic chapter on the health and welfare ofmankind and the international drug control system. It shows that concern for health and welfare is at the core of the international drug control system. INCB emphasizes that the system in place,when full...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 179 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The IPC Ring Approach Checklist

The IPC Ring Approach Checklist presentation is an EVD IPC training material for HC II and pharmacies on how to rapidly mobilize teams to assist affected health facilities and the community in implementing IPC measures to�reduce Ebola transmission in a predetermined risk� area whenever a case is ide...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 136 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations 986

The WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations met in Geneva from 14 to 18 October 2013. Dr M.-P. Kieny, Assistant Director-General of Health Systems and Innovation at the World Health Organization (WHO), welcomed participants on behalf of the Director-General. Dr Kieny t...

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Theme: Prevention
Sub Theme: Pharmaceuticals and Drugs
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 165 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Democratic Republic of the Congo

The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Democratic Republic of the Congo offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa,...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Obsteric and contraceptive surgery at the district hospital : A practical guide.

This document is intended to provide guidance to non-specialist doctors providing obstetric and contraceptive surgery and the necessary anaesthetic services in small hospitals that are subject to constraints on personnel, equipment and drugs and where access to specialist services is limited.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 days ago 173 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Tools for advancing tobacco control in the 21st century Tobacco control legislation: an introductory guide

WHO is disseminating this guide as a necessary tool for those working in tobacco control or in health promotion. These actors include governmental agencies, public health practitioners, lawyers, nongovernmental organizations and academia. It is hoped that the guide will add value to existing referen...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 12 hours ago 154 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The World Bank News Letter - UCREPP

The key highlight in this edition is the site handovers for the construction of modern Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in the three health facilities at Arua, Hoima, and Kabale Regional Referral Hospitals that took place on the 15th, August, 23rd August, and 1st September 2023, respectively.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 169 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 33: COVID-19 Pandemic 1 September 2020

The document titled Outbreak Brief 33: COVID-19 Pandemic – 1 September 2020 offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, S...

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 146 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Facility Tracer Medicines Stock Status Summary Report September 2021

The report aims to inform the Ministry of Health and stakeholders�� planning and logistics decisions to ensure a robust health commodities supply chain. This report provides an update of the health facility stock status data and HMIS 105-section 6 reporting for 38 tracer commodities (in different ba...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 141 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

HIV Counselling Supervision Participants Manual

HIV Counseling Supervision is a crucial component of any HIV/AIDS counseling or care and support service. It provides a way to support counselors and to address clients�� needs while at the same time upholding the professional practice of counseling around the globe. Supervision is an excellent oppo...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 Minutes ago 190 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africa CDC Strategic Plan 2023 2027

Africa stands at a critical juncture, where the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic as well as Ebola and Monkeypox outbreaks underlined the need for increased self-reliance in our continent’s health systems. There is a shared recognition that Africa can and must do more to safeguard its healt...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 186 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Recommendations for Stepwise response to COVID-19

This document provides a high-level mapping of outbreak stages with guidance on how to time the minimum uptake of different interventions that have been recommended by Africa CDC, driven by evidence and science.

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Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 143 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Nutrition and HIV/AIDS

The coexistence of high rates of malnutrition and HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa creates an additional challenge for nutritionists. Providing adequate nutrition at community and individual levels, even in the absence of HIV/AIDS, remains a problem. The new challenge calls for the acceleration...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 134 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 44, 31st October - 6th November, 2016

The proportion of health facilities that reported this week was 81.6% representing a 59.1% increase in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Subsequently, there has been a steady increase in the national reporting rate of 80% and above. Only 15.5% (18/116) districts had 100% of thei...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 11 hours ago 155 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin, week 51, 19th - 25th December, 2016

The proportion of health facilities that reported during week 51 was 71.1% reflecting depicting a 11.6% decline in reporting rate in comparison to the same week in 2015. Only 10% (12/116) districts had 100% of their health facilities reporting and 36.2% (42/116) of the districts achieved the nationa...

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Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 15 hours ago 145 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

MPS: Health FY 2013/14

This ministerial statement is about the vote functions of ministry of health. A vote function is a set of programes, projects and loccal gov't grants ,defining the roles and responsibilities of a vote / institution and contributing towards the attainment of vote and overoll sector objectives.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 17 hours ago 147 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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