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      Regional Strategy for Traditional Medicine in the Western Pacific

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      Presents a strategy prepared to guide national governments in the Western Pacific Region, WHO and other partners in the efforts to ensure the proper use of traditional medicine and its…

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      Food Safety: Actions and Outcomes for WHO and Countries

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      The document identifies the actions required by countries and WHO in the implementation of the strategy that was endorsed and adopted by the Region’s Member States at the fifty-second session…

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      Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents and Youths in China: A Review of Literature and Projects 1995-2002

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      In order to provide evidence-based information to assist governments international agencies and nongovernmental organizations to develop policies and projects the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office supported eight countries namely Cambodia…

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      The Regional Agenda for Capacity Building in Health Promotion 2002-2005

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      This document is a guide for health promotion programme managers policy-makers strategic partners and advocates. This document summarizes the results of recommendations made by participants and observers at the Workshop…

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      Improving Data Quality: A Guide for Developing Countries

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      This publication provides a set of guidelines to enable health care workers information staff and administrators to focus on improving the timeliness accuracy and reliability of health care data. The…

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      Regional Framework for Community IMCI

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      Recognizing the complexity of factors that influence child health outcomes the Regional Framework for Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) has been developed as a practical tool for getting…

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      Contracting for Health Services: Lessons from New Zealand

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      Contracting is a tool that is playing an increasing role in many health systems. Although contracting has the potential to add benefits to health systems it also adds further complexity…

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      Guidelines for Dengue Surveillance and Mosquito Control

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      The main objective of these guidelines is to provide practical information on the steps for preventing and controlling outbreaks of dengue haemorrhagic fever. The main emphasis is on vector surveillance…

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      Essential Public Health Functions: A Three-Country Study in the Western Pacific Region

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      Public health is a core element of governments’ attempts to improve and promote the health and welfare of their citizens. Unfortunately, there is evidence that current public health systems and…

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      Responding to Questions About the 100 Per Cent Condom Use Programme: An Aid to Programme Staff

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      This booklet is intended to support technical staff who are planning to implement the 100 per cent condom use programme. Content includes a sample of 25 questions that have, at…

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      Updated Country Profiles on Ageing and Health 1998-2002, a Closer Look at Health Resources for Older Persons in the Western Pacific Region

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      Includes information compiled in 1998 on the policies and programmes for the elderly in each member state of the Western Pacific Region. This report includes profiles which contain: demographic data…

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      Epilepsy in the Western Pacific Region: A Call to Action, Global Campaign Against Epilepsy

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      This book should serve as a tool for dialogue with governments, health care providers, and other interested parties on the subject of epilepsy. It contains information on activities performed under…

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      District Health Facilities: Guidelines for Development and Operations

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      Presents detailed richly illustrated guidelines for the planning and design of district hospitals including extensive information on the selection and maintenance of medical and laboratory equipment. The aim is to…

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      Health Financing: A Basic Guide

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      This guide focuses on health economics and financing with the objectives of providing readers with a basic vocabulary and understanding of the most important issues.

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      Health Workers’ Manual on Family Planning Options

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      A spiral-bound manual accompanied by a quick reference booklet for use in the day-to-day counselling of women and couples interested in planning their families. Addressed to health workers in family…

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      Developing Health Management Information Systems: A Practical Guide for Developing Countries

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      This book is designed to be a quick-and-easy and user-friendly reference for HMIS development with focus on application. It provides a general overview of the principle steps and issues involved…

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      Healthy Marketplaces in the Western Pacific: Guiding Future Action: Applying a Settings Approach to the Promotion of Health in Marketplaces

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      These guidelines aim to provide national provincial and local authorities mayors city administrators health professionals nongovernmental organizations and market communities with practical information on how to initiate a Healthy Marketplace…

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      Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents and Youths in Laos: A Review of Literature and Projects 1994-2003

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      In order to provide evidence-based information to assist governments international agencies and nongovernmental organizations to develop policies and projects the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office supported eight countries namely Cambodia…

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      STI / HIV Prevalence Surveys of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Seafarers and Women Attending Antenatal Clinics in Kiribati 2002-2003

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      WHO’s Western Pacific Regional Office is currently supporting second generation HIV surveillance which concentrates resources where they will yield information that is most useful in reducing the spread of HIV…

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      The Migration of Skilled Health Personnel in the Pacific Region: A Summary Report

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      This report reviews the available literature and the surveys of health worker (and other skilled health personnel) migration in the Pacific region. The migration of skilled health workers poses a…

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      Health Service Planning and Policy-Making: A Toolkit for Nurses and Midwives

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      Consisting of 7 booklets, this toolkit provides nurses and midwives with tools to effectively participate in and influence health care planning and policy-making. It is designed for use by any…

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      Integrating Poverty and Gender into Health Programmes, a Sourcebook for Health Professionals, Module on Curricular Integration

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      The set of modules that comprise this Sourcebook are intended for use in pre-service and in-service training of health professionals. This module on curricular integration aims to strengthen the capacity…

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      Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents and Youths in Cambodia, a Review of Literature and Projects 1995 - 2003

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      Reviews the literature and projects undertaken in eight Asian countries in relation to adolescent sexual and reproductive health, including in relation to: sexually transmitted diseases; knowledge, attitude and practice of…

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      Integrating Poverty and Gender into Health Programmes: A Sourcebook for Health Professionals: Foundational Module on Poverty

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      It is estimated that abut 70% of the world’s poor are women. Similarly in the Western Pacific Region poverty often wears a woman’s face. Indicators on human poverty including health…

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      Field Manual for Capacity Assessment of Health Facilities in Responding to Emergencies

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      This manual serves as an updated second edition to the publication Protocol for assessment of health facilities in responding to emergencies published by WHO in 1999. This updated second edition…

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      Health Policy Development: A Handbook for Pacific Islands Practitioners

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      This handbook has been prepared for the guidance of practitioners involved in the policy-making or policy analysis process in the health agencies of Pacific island countries. WHO commissioned this work…

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      Strategic Plan to Stop TB in the Western Pacific 2006-2010

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      This plan has been developed within the context of the new global Stop TB strategy. It provides a road map with strategies clearly laid out for achieving the 2010 goal…

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      Integrating Poverty and Gender into Health Programmes: A Sourcebook for Health Professionals Module on Mental Health

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      Intended for use in pre-service and in-service training of health professionals. Divided into six sections, this module on mental health aims to improve the awareness, knowledge and skills of health…

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      Emergency Exercise Development

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      This book was prepared by the World Health Organization. It was originally designed, produced and distributed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Emergency Management Institute of the United…

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      Priority HIV and Sexual Health Interventions in the Health Sector for Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender People in the Asia-Pacific Region

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      This book and CD-ROM package describes the priority health sector interventions recommended to achieve universal access for the prevention, treatment, care and support of HIV and sexually transmitted infections among…

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      Standards of Midwifery Practice for Safe Motherhood: 4 Volumes

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      This set of four spiral-bound manuals is designed to help countries implement standards for midwifery practice aimed at the reduction of maternal mortality. The standards cover the management of selected…

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      Polio Eradication in the Western Pacific Region

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      This publication tells the story of how the polio virus was hunted down, cornered in smaller and smaller areas and then eliminated by an organized, determined effort. It was done…

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      Manual on Monitoring Cardiovascular Diseases

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      Aims to introduce standardized methods for data collection, analysis and quality control in epidemiological assessment and monitoring for cardiovascular diseases and to develop indicators for measuring the efficiency and impact…

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      Guidelines for the Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Female Sex Workers

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      This publication provides guidance to public health officials on how to develop or improve sexually transmitted infections (STI) programmes for female sex workers. One of the objectives is to support…

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      STI/ HIV Training Course for One Hundred Percent Condom Use Programme

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      This training package, consisting of a manual and a CD-ROM, is aimed at helping programme managers and technical staff to implement the 100 Per Cent Condom use Programme.

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      Fighting TB: Overview of the Stop TB Special Project in the Western Pacific Region

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      This publication provides an overview of the Stop TB Special Project, established in the Western Pacific region in response to the region’s TB crisis. A goal of the special project…

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      Tuberculosis Control in the WHO Western Pacific Region: Report

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      This 2003 report is an update on the epidemiological situation of tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region and shows the progress of Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) programmes. National Tuberculosis…

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      Ministerial Round Table on Diet, Physical Activity and Health: Regional Committee for the Western Pacific, Fifty-Third Session

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      At the fifty-third session of the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in Kyoto Japan health policy-makers from 30 countries and areas of the Western Pacific participated in a round…

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      Teaching Modules for Basic Education in Human Sexuality

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      A series of five teaching modules designed to help nurses and other health workers improve their communication and counselling skills when dealing with questions of human sexuality. Noting that these…

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      Teaching Modules for Continuing Education in Human Sexuality

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      A series of three modules for use in the continuing education of nurses focused on problems related to human sexuality that frequently require treatment. Addressed to the teachers of continuing…

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      Manual on the Prevention and Control of Common Cancers

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      A practical manual on the control and prevention of 10 cancers commonly found in countries of the WHO Western Pacific region. It discusses the screening and early detection of cancer…

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      Guidelines for the Appropriate Use of Herbal Medicines

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      A report of the findings and recommendations of a working group convened to prepare guidelines for the use of herbal medicines in Western Pacific countries. It sets out a framework…

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      Quality Health Care for the Elderly: A Manual for Instructors of Nurses and Other Health Workers

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      A manual providing a basic training course for student nurses and other health workers in the quality health care of the elderly. Intended for use in Western Pacific countries the…

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      Managing Maternal and Child Health Programmes: A Practical Guide

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      Describes a wide range of simple strategies and interventions that can be used to improve the management of maternal and child health programmes in developing countries. Addressed to health officers…

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      Caring for Mothers and Their Babies: A Guide for Midwives

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      The manual is aimed at providing community health workers who have undergone comprehensive midwifery training with guidelines and pointers in maternal and child health care. It presents step by step…

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      Nursing Care of the Sick: A Guide for Nurses Working in Small Rural Hospitals

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      This manual is designed to assist nurses working under extremely difficult circumstances. The situations discussed include chronic shortages of essential drugs and supplies, primitive equipment, inadequate water supply and sanitary…

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      Health Worker’s Manual on Counselling for Maternal and Child Health

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      A spiral-bound reference manual for use whenever health workers have an opportunity to give pregnant women and the mothers of young children advice about ways to stay healthy and respond…

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      STI/ HIV Laboratory Tests for the Detection of Reproductive Tract Infections

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      Discusses methods to detect 11 Reproductive Tract Infections (RTI). The types of assay presented fall into several categories and include detection of the organism by direct microscopy, detection of metabolic…

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