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...
In June 2005, WHO’s Strategic, Technical and Advisory Group on TB approved the
new Stop TB Strategy, which was endorsed by the Stop TB Partnership Coordinating
Board in November 2005. The new Strategy was designed to deal with challenges and obstacles that slow the progress in achieving tuberculosis co...
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...
This is a dynamic and challenging time for those working in public health, in global health cooperation, and in tuberculosis control specifically. As a result of commitments to health at the highest political levels, there are unprecedented opportunities for expanding response to disease epidemics and si...
Until very recently, the approaches to TB care and control have been focused in most
settings on the essential public health and medical interventions with very limited
scope to contribution by communities. And yet, the issue of community involvement
in public health approaches and in the delivery of hea...
Torres, Antoni;
Niederman, Michael S;
Chastre, Jean;
Ewig, Santiago;
Fernandez-Vandellos, Patricia;
Hanberger, Hakan;
Kollef, Marin;
Bassi, Gianluigi Li;
Luna, Carlos M;
Martin-Loeches, Ignacio;
Paiva, J. Artur;
Read, Robert C;
Rigau, David;
Timsit, Jean François;
Welte, Tobias;
Wunderink, Richard.
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...
mhGAP is WHO’s action plan to scale up services for mental, neurological and substance use disorders for countries especially with low and lower middle incomes. The priority conditions addressed by mhGAP are: depression, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, suicide, epilepsy, dementia, disorder...
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...
Objetivo:
a) Optimizar, en términos de tiempo, recursos y calidad de atención, el proceso actual de Implante Coclear en todo nivel de la red de salud y rehabilitación.
b) Aportar información y material que facilite la toma de decisiones al equipo profesional involucrado en el proceso de Implante Co...
Chile,
d0343810,
d0120460,
Guia de Prática Clínica,
Impedância Elétrica,
Audiometria,
Auxiliares de Audição,
Perda Auditiva Neurossensorial,
Implante Coclear,
Potenciais Evocados,
Emissões Otoacústicas Espontâneas
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing atopic eczema in children under 12. It aims to improve care for children with atopic eczema by making detailed recommendations on treatment and specialist referral. The guideline also explains how healthcare professionals should assess the effect eczema has o...
