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Azienda News:
- Mpox toolkit for health-care workers How to recognize an mpox case
requiring urgent care Care for people with severe or complicated mpox Patients with severe or complicated mpox, or underlying risk factors, such as immunodeficiency or poorly managed HIV infection, should be isolated and treated in a hospital or health-care facility 1 Provide patients with symptomatic treatment for
- Urgent action needed as global diabetes cases increase four-fold over . . .
The analysis, conducted by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), highlights the scale of the diabetes epidemic and an urgent need for stronger global action to address both rising disease rates and widening treatment gaps, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
- Prehospital care delivery assessment - World Health Organization (WHO)
Health care referral is the explicit direction of a person seeking care from one site, provider or platform of care to another Immediate referral is referral for care that is urgently needed during the current health care encounter, usually involves the direct transfer of an individual to an appropriate facility or specialist for urgent care
- Health system at breaking point as hostilities further intensify in . . .
This includes 1 hospital, 11 primary care centres, and 13 medical points within the evacuation zones, and an additional 5 hospitals, 1 field hospital, 9 primary care centres, and 23 medical points within 1000 metres of those zones North Gaza has been stripped of nearly all health care
- Emergency and critical care - World Health Organization (WHO)
Emergency care is an integrated platform for delivering accessible, quality and time-sensitive health care services for acute illness and injury across the life course Integrated emergency care services facilitate timely recognition, treatment management and, when needed, continued treatment of the acutely ill at the appropriate level of the
- Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Home care for families and caregivers
Accurate measurements and readings from a pulse oximeter are important signs in determining if and when a COVID-19 patient at home may need urgent care at a healthcare facility As a general rule, a decline below 90%, or a progressive downwards trend, can be an early warning of need for further medical assessment
- WHO concerned about escalating health crisis in West Bank
In addition, over 5200 people, 800 of them children, have been injured, adding to the growing burden of trauma and emergency care at already strained health facilities As of 28 May, WHO has documented 480 attacks on health care in the West Bank since 7 October 2023, resulting in 16 deaths and 95 injuries
- Strengthening acute care systems saves lives, but urgent action is needed
In response to the 2023 WHA resolution on strengthening Integrated Emergency, Critical, and Operative care (ECO), WHO launched the Acute Care Action Network (ACAN) bringing together nearly 80 organizations dedicated to improving acute care across the globe ACAN has identified BEC implementation as a key priority, and participant organizations
- Aid cuts threaten fragile progress in ending maternal deaths, UN . . .
Urgent investment is needed to prevent maternal deaths The world is currently off-track to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal target for maternal survival Globally, the maternal mortality ratio would need to fall by around 15% each year to meet the 2030 target – significantly increasing from current annual rates of decline of
- New WHO guidance calls for urgent transformation of mental health policies
The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched new guidance to help all countries reform and strengthen mental health policies and systems Mental health services worldwide remain underfunded, with major gaps in access and quality In some countries, up to 90% of people with severe mental health conditions receive no care at all, while many existing services rely on outdated institutional
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