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MIYCAN Counselling Cards for Health Facility Workers

The MIYCAN Counselling Cards are part of the Ministry of Health's strategy to�improve maternal, infant, young child, and adolescent health and nutrition.�These materials are part of an integrated package of job aids, or counselling tools,�aimed at supporting health workers in counselling mothers and...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 219 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Guidebook Nutritional Anemia

Anemia is a widespread public health problem associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality, especially in pregnant women and young children. It is a disease with multiple causes, both nutritional (vitamin and mineral deficiencies) and non-nutritional (infection) that frequently co-occ...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Guidebook%20Nutritional%20Anemia.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 193 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Operational Guide for Establishing and Implementing Mortality Surveillance in Africa, July 2024

In response to the growing necessity for accurate and timely information regarding deaths categorized by age, sex, and cause of death, underscored by the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) developed the Continental Framework d...

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Theme: Detection
Sub Theme: Mortality Surveillance
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 171 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Africas Emergency Response Workforce: Rapid Response Team Directory

As part of this commitment, Africa CDC in collaboration with Public Health England’s IHR Strengthening Project, has embarked on an initiative to develop a secure online directory of rapid response personnel and teams. This will be a secured database with different levels of administrative privileges...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 178 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Liberia

The document titled Finding the Balance: Public Health and Social Measures in Liberia 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: 1 hour ago 162 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Analysis of the Nutrition Situation in Uganda May 2010

Adequate nutrition is an essential prerequisite for maintaining health status. The critical role nutrition plays in health and development warrants greater commitment to and investment in nutrition in Uganda. Moreover, such an investment is a necessary prerequisite for further progress on the Millen...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 14 hours ago 139 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Infant Mortality in Uganda 1995-2000

Infant mortality is an important indicator of the successful implementation of the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP). This is because the level of infant mortality is a consequence of a broad range of Government interventions.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Infant%20Mortality%20in%20Uganda%20%28fina...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 168 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Business and Operational Models for African Biomanufacturing Training Centres

Challenges Establishing suitable training centres face challenges including building a facility that can adequately simulate real production processes, the creation of course content and the development of sustainable business models as the overall biomanufacturing ecosystem is established. At prese...

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UBOS Statistical Abstract 2019

The Statistical Abstract is an annual publication compiled by Uganda Bureau of Statistics, which provides the statistical summary on various socio-economic indicators for Uganda. Some figures in this edition may vary from those in the earlier editions due to the updates. Note that some of the CY 201...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/UBOS%20Statistical%20Abstract%202019.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Data and Statistics Last updated: 8 hours ago 145 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

WHO child growth standards and the identification of severe acute malnutrition in infants and children

Using weight-for-height: WHO and UNICEF recommend the use of a cut-off for weight-forheight of below -3 standard deviations (SD) of the WHO standards to identify infants and children as having SAM. The commonly used cut-off is the same cut-off for both the new 2006 WHO child growth standards (WHO st...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 138 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

World health report 2005

This year��s World Health Report comes at a time when only a decade is left to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which set internationally agreed development aspirations for the world��s population to be met by 2015. These goals have underlined the importance of improving health, and...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 16 hours ago 137 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Western Africa Resources Dashboard

The Africa CDC Western Africa RCC Public Health Resources Dashboard provides a centralized, interactive overview of critical public health resources across the Western African region. Designed to support evidence-based decision-making, this dashboard enables public health professionals to assess...

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Medical countermeasures
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 4 hours ago 340 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Health%20sector%20newsletter1.pdf
Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Community Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 9 hours ago 170 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Nutrition Program Report - Monthly Health Facility, May 2023

This document is a statistical report highlighting the performance of the key nutrition program indicators for the month of May 2023.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Food and Nutrition
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 45 Minutes ago 142 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment Uganda, 2023

The Health Financing Progress Matrix (HFPM) is the World Health Organisation's (WHO��s) standardized qualitative assessment of a country��s Health Financing system. The assessment builds on an extensive body of conceptual and empirical work and summarizes ��what matters in Health Financing for Unive...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/WHO%20HFPM%20Uganda%20FINAL.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 184 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Health sector ministerial policy statement FY 2012/ 2013.

This policy statement is about the vote functions of Ministry of health.

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 38 Minutes ago 190 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/World%20report%20on%20Violence%20and%20Hea...
Theme: Community Engagement
Sub Theme: Gender Based Violence
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 132 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Public Spending on Health: A Closer Look at Global Trends

This report, which builds on the WHO report New Perspectives on Global Health Spending for Universal Health Coverage,(2) analyses the latest data for 2016 and identifies issues of global relevance. Global spending on health is on a transformation trajectory, with increasing domestic public funding a...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Public%20spending%20on%20health.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health Economics and Financing
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 hours ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly Malaria status - Uganda week 33, 2018

This publication is about the statistics of the malaria case weekly reporting in Uganda.

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Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 33 Minutes ago 141 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Management of linen in the context of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases

The job aide is a step-by-step procedure of�handling linen of suspected, confirmed or probable EVD cases at Ebola Treatment Units, healthcare facilities, or within the�community (household).� Contaminated linen poses a risk of infection and should only be handled in PPE.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/202210_Job%20Aide%2015_Management%20of%20L...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 44 Minutes ago 145 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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