Author: Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240037209
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
WHO strategy for engaging religious leaders, faith-based organizations and faith communities in health emergencies
Author: Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240037209
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Report of the WHO and Religions for Peace global conference
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240054030
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
WHO benchmarks for strengthening health emergency capacities
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240086765
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The WHO Benchmarks for International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Capacities was first published in 2019 and serves as a capacity-building tool and reference document to guide development/updating of country health security plans, including the national action plan for health security (NAPHS). It is now updated to a second edition which incorporates lessons learned from recent health emergencies, as well as alignment with updated IHRMEF tools, the HEPR framework, the WHO Director-General’s ten proposals to build a safer world together, and to build back better through multi-hazard and whole-of-society approaches to support better preparedness for future emergencies. Over 250 relevant technical leads contributed to this edition, by providing inputs from WHO regional offices, countries, partners and participation in global consultation meetings. The second edition is titled “WHO Benchmarks for Strengthening Health Emergency Capacities: Support for the Implementation of International Health Regulations (IHR) and Health Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Resilience (HEPR) Capacities”. WHO benchmarks are further digitalized for easy and quick use, along with a reference library, which is currently being updated. The audience for this document includes WHO Member States, health ministries and other relevant ministries, healthstakeholders, partners, nongovernmental organizations and academia to support building capacities at the country level.
The Spirit of Global Health
Author: Simon Peng-KellerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192865501
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Since the beginning of the World Health Organization, many of its staff members, regional offices, member states, and directors-general have grappled with the question of what a 'spiritual dimension' of health looks like, and how it might enrich the health policies advocated by their organisations. Contrary to the wide-spread perception that 'spirituality' is primarily related to palliative care and has emerged relatively recently within the organisation, this study shows that its history is considerably longer and more complex, and has been closely connected to the WHO's ethical aspirations, its quest for more holistic and equitable healthcare, and its struggle with the colonial legacy of international health organisations. While such ideals and struggles silently motivated many of the key actors and policies - such as the provision of universal primary healthcare - which for decades have embodied the organisation's loftiest aspirations, the WHO's official relationship with 'spirituality' advanced in fits, leaps, and setbacks. At times creative and interdisciplinary, at others deeply political, this process was marked by cycles of institutional forgetting and remembering. Rather than as a triumph of religious lobbyists, this book argues, the 'spiritual dimension' of health may be better understood as a 'ghost' that has haunted - and continues to haunt - the WHO as it comes to terms with its mandate of advancing health as a state of 'complete well-being' available to all.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Abuse
Author: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Community assets and civil society outreach in critical times
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 924005507X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A checklist for respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness planning
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240084517
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Preparedness and resilience for emerging threats. Module 1
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240084673
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
WHO competency framework, risk communication and community engagement
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240092501
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) competency framework is a resource that details the essential behaviours and activities necessary for effective communication and engagement with communities before, during and after public health emergencies. The purpose of this framework is to establish and promote a common understanding of behavioural competencies and how they should be applied for high-performing and community-centred health emergency programmes. It is intended to support the development of standardized training programmes, professional development and talent acquisition and to enhance the capabilities of public health professionals involved in RCCE. Its goal is to inform the establishment of a skilled, well-trained RCCE workforce that consistently understands and executes the necessary behaviours and activities required to conduct RCCE activities with competence and professionalism.
Managing Infodemics in the 21st Century
Author: Tina D. PurnatPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031277899
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This open access book on infodemic management reviews the current discussions about this evolving area of public health from a variety of perspectives. Infodemic management is an evidence-based practice underpinned by the science of infodemiology that offers guidance to better manage pandemic and epidemic risks and more quickly tackle new and resurgent health threats. Infodemic management has added much visibility and recognition for the importance of social-behavioural sciences, health communication, participatory and human-centered approaches, and digital health as complementary scientific and practical approaches that also must be strengthened in public health practice through a whole-of-society and whole information ecosystem approach. This volume makes a case that health of the information ecosystem in the digital age has emerged as the fourth ecosystem that public health is challenged by, along with the triad of environment-human-animal health. The book brings together scientists and practitioners across disciplines to offer insights on infodemic management. The tools, methods, analytics, and interventions that they discuss in the context of acute health events also can be applied to other public health areas. Topics covered include: People's Experience of Information Overload and Its Impact on Infodemic Harms Smart Health! Expanding the Need for New Literacies To Debunk or Not to Debunk? Correcting (Mis)information Partnering with Communities for Effective Management of Health Emergencies Managing Infodemics in the 21st Century is required reading for public health practitioners in need of an overview of this evolving field of practice that has made major scientific and practical leaps forward since early 2020. Global, regional, and local health authorities are increasingly recognizing the need to expand their capacities for infodemic management in their efforts to better prepare for future health emergencies. This book is the resource they need to build toward a mature infodemic management process. The text also can be used as supplemental reading for graduate programs and courses in public health.