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Frontline health workers remain the most effective resource for managing sick children, screening them for preventable problems, and providing critical counselling and family support. This guide outlines an approach for assessing and improving the quality of primary health care for both sick and well children. It builds on the need for bottom-up planning and action by engaging local staff in identifying and solving problems themselves. By collecting and monitoring facility data, progress can be tracked and continuously improved.
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Serviços de Planejamento Familiar , Atenção Primária à Saúde , Gravidez não PlanejadaRESUMO
Frontline health workers are critical to the provision of effective counselling about family planning and support to women on the correct use of contraceptives. This guide outlines an approach for assessing and improving the quality of primary health care to reduce unplanned pregnancies. It builds on the need for bottom-up planning and action by engaging local staff to identify and solve problems. By collecting and monitoring facility data, progress can be tracked and continuously improved.
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Serviços de Planejamento Familiar , Atenção Primária à Saúde , Gravidez não PlanejadaRESUMO
The Human Resources for Health Country Profiles: Kingdom of Tonga provides a comprehensive analysis of the health workforce in Tonga based on the latest information available on human resources. The document will serve as a baseline for projections and a guide for framing policies and strategies for the planning, management, development and distribution of the country’s health workforce, including the development of a new National Human Resources for Health Strategic Plan and implementation of Tonga’s Package of Essential Health Services.
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Atenção à Saúde , Mão de Obra em Saúde , TongaRESUMO
Strategic communication is at the heart of public health and more important than ever in the digital age. Using communication strategically requires expertise, skills and resources to plan, implement and evaluate interventions that encourage governments to implement policies that improve people’s lives and well-being, that empower health workers to deliver the best care possible, and that encourage people to take actions that protect and improve their health and that of their family and community. This Regional Action Framework on Communication for Health (C4H) aims to support Member States in implementing the C4H approach. It outlines steps to be taken by WHO and Member States to use C4H to achieve shared public health goals in the Western Pacific.
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Comunicação , Comunicação em Saúde , Regionalização da SaúdeRESUMO
WHO and UNICEF have developed a range of tools to facilitate the implementation of the Nurturing care framework. The brochure provides an overview of the essential tools with their links.
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Cuidado do Lactente , Bem-Estar do Lactente , Desenvolvimento Infantil , Cuidado da Criança , Saúde da CriançaRESUMO
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is impacting our health, economies and development. Up to 5.2 million people may die because of resistant bacterial infections across the Western Pacific Region from 2020-2030. Childbirth, surgery, cancer treatment and other interventions will become impossibly dangerous if bacterial infections no longer respond to available antibiotics.
AMR surveillance provides the evidence base to address AMR, by guiding patient care, informing local, national and regional actions and monitoring the effectiveness of interventions. AMR surveillance data allow detection of outbreaks of AMR pathogens, inform response measures, and underpin antimicrobial stewardship and monitoring of trends in infection and resistance.
Member States are encouraged to use “Guidance on establishing national and local AMR surveillance systems in the Western Pacific Region” and the accompanying Excel-based assessment tool to establish, evaluate and strengthen their AMR surveillance system.
The guidance covers AMR in fast-growing bacteria causing human infections and emphasizes strengthening surveillance in hospitals to tackle AMR. It complements the “GLASS manual for antimicrobial resistance surveillance in common bacteria causing human infection” (WHO 2023) and “Responding to Outbreaks of Antimicrobial-resistant Pathogens in Health-care Facilities: Guidance for the Western Pacific Region” (WPRO 2022).
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Resistência Microbiana a Medicamentos , Vigilância em Saúde PúblicaRESUMO
Food inspection is crucial for ensuring food safety, using risk-based approaches to target high-risk products and businesses. This guidance aids national authorities in designing and implementing risk-based systems, offering step-by-step instructions, examples, and tools for prioritization and inspection frequency estimation. It emphasizes adapting to individual country needs and recognizing variations in food risks and production chain characteristics. The document underscores resource-efficient, risk-based food inspection systems, prioritizing high-risk products and businesses to prevent safety incidents proactively. It suggests designing models based on relevant information and periodically adjusting them for continuous improvement.
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Inspeção de Alimentos , Guias como Assunto , Gestão de RiscosRESUMO
The Regional Health Innovation Strategy for the Western Pacific outlines a vision and recommends key actions for governments to leverage health innovations to solve problems, accelerate impact, and shape the future of health and well-being. The implementation of the strategy should be guided by a mission-oriented approach, leverage collective intelligence and actions, focus on learning from the innovation process, and aim for a purposeful impact. In doing so, governments are encouraged to assume leadership in health innovation, create enabling ecosystems for innovation, and foster spaces for learning.
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Inovação Organizacional , Regionalização da SaúdeRESUMO
This well-child care (WCC) scoping review aimed to review the existing policies, strategies and programmes for identifying gaps and developing recommendations to tackle the WCC challenges in Mongolia. Over 140 documents were reviewed, including Mongolian laws, strategies, policies, programmes, plans and regulations. The report comprises six chapters covering six thematic areas: 1) early childhood development; 2) injury, protection, abuse and neglect; 3) water safety and sanitary environment; 4) disability; 5) indoor pollution; and 6) environmental toxins.
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Conscientização , Cuidado da Criança , Gestão de RiscosRESUMO
The pathway to strengthen multisectoral collaboration at the human-animal-environmental interface (HAI) aims to improve health security through One Health implementation. It outlines strategic guides and tools developed to support Member States through different steps of the HAI pathway.
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Saúde Única , Humanos , Animais , Meio Ambiente , Ecossistema , Colaboração IntersetorialRESUMO
Fires, explosions and volcanic eruptions can damage and contaminate food and water due to heat, smoke, fumes and chemicals. These flyers include tips to reduce food safety risks during a fire incident for households, food suppliers, vendors, food industry inspectors and workers.
Related documents:
Floods: four tips to reduce food safety risks - https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/375866
Power outages: four tips to reduce food safety risks - https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/375865
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Contaminação de Alimentos , Manipulação de Alimentos , Inocuidade dos Alimentos , IncêndiosRESUMO
After a flood, food that has been in contact with flood-water may have become unsafe for human consumption. These flyers include tips to reduce food safety risks in the event of a flood for households, food suppliers, vendors, food industry inspectors and workers.
Related documents:
Fires: four tips to reduce food safety risks - https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/375867
Power outages: four tips to reduce food safety risks - https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/375865
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Contaminação de Alimentos , Manipulação de Alimentos , Inocuidade dos Alimentos , InundaçõesRESUMO
Natural disasters and emergencies frequently cause power outages that can compromise the quality and safety of food. These flyers include tips to reduce food safety risks during a power outage for households, food suppliers, vendors, food industry inspectors and workers.
Related documents:
Floods: four tips to reduce food safety risks - https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/375866
Fires: four tips to reduce food safety risks - https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/375867
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Contaminação de Alimentos , Manipulação de Alimentos , Inocuidade dos Alimentos , Fontes de Energia ElétricaRESUMO
The Fifteenth Pacific Health Ministers Meeting brought together health leaders from across the Pacific, hosted by the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pacific Community (SPC) from 20-22 September 2023.
The event focused on four main agenda items: (1) rethinking human resources for health; (2)tackling the drivers of obesity, particularly for children and young people; (3) advancing health information and digital transformation in the health sector; and, (4) strengthening health system resilience.
This document outlines the commitments made by the ministers who attended the event.
