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    Depression in adults: recognition and management

    This guideline covers identifying and managing depression in adults aged 18 years and older, in primary and secondary care. It aims to improve care for people with depression by promoting improved recognition and treatment....

    Dengue: guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control

    Dengue is the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease in the world. In the last 50 years, incidence has increased 30-fold with increasing geographic expansion to new countries and, in the present decade, from urban to rural settings. This publication is intended to contribute to prevention an...

    Management of MDR-TB: a field guide: a companion document to guidelines for programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis: integrated management of adolescent and adult illness (‎IMAI)‎

    Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) increasingly occur in resource-constrained settings. In the context of a national response to MDR- and XDR-TB, health workers in TB clinics (in district hospitals and some accredited health centres) will need t...

    Infant and young child feeding: model chapter for textbooks for medical students and allied health professionals

    This Model Chapter brings together essential knowledge about infant and young child feeding that health professionals should acquire as part of their basic education. It focuses on nutritional needs and feeding practices in children less than two years of age – the most critical period for child nutrit...

    Clinical practice guidelines for psychosocial Interventions in severe mental illness

    Los trastornos mentales son un problema de primera magnitud, por su elevada prevalencia (existen estimaciones que sugieren que entre el 15 y el 25% de la población general los padece) y por el impacto de sufrimiento y desestructuración en las personas, sus familias y su entorno más cercano1 . Se puede...

    Cancer Control Knowledge into Action WHO Guide for Effective Programmes Diagnosis and Treatment

    The first module in the Cancer Control series, Planning, provides a template for cancer control planning and progamme implementation. The recommended framework draws on earlier WHO work in this field, the principles of which are set out in National cancer control programmes, policies and managerial guide...

    IMCI chart booklet (Integrated Management of Childhood Illness for High HIV Settings - Chart Booklet)

    The IMCI chart booklet is a guide for first-level health workers on assessment, management and follow up of common childhood illnesses including pneumonia, malaria, diarrhoea, ear infections, severe malnutrition and measles. The modified IMCI chart booklet for high HIV settings addresses the same problem...

    Implementing the WHO Stop TB Strategy: a handbook for national tuberculosis control programmes

    Since the publication of the Tuberculosis handbook by the World Health Organization in 1998, important changes have taken place in the global context in which control of tuberculosis (TB) is carried out. Firstly, the DOTS strategy has been adopted by virtually all countries during the past decade, althou...

    Summary of the international clinical guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired and ventilator-acquired pneumonia

    ERJ open res; 4 (2), 2008
    Nosocomial pneumonia is a frequent infection that is classified into two groups [1]: HAP, which develops in hospitalised patients after 48 h of admission, and does not require (but may include) artificial ventilation at the time of diagnosis [2, 3]; and VAP, which occurs in intensive care unit (ICU) pati...

    Operations Manual for Delivery of HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment at Primary Health Centres in High-Prevalence, Resource-Constrained Settings Edition 1 for Field-testing

    The Manual is based on a public health approach to scaling-up HIV services in resource-constrained settings. Th is approach includes simple, standardized regimens and formularies; algorithmic clinical decision-making; standardized supervision and patient monitoring approaches; as well as integrated deliv...