Total of resources: 27151

Where the Public Good Prevailed

This article addresses the issue of health care in the United States and how research, advocacy, public discussion, and policy fit together in successful campaigns for change.
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English
Public Health, Advocacy

Training Program In International Health

The purpose of the Program is to promote leadership in international public health by enabling participants to develop a broader vision of international and regional health trends, and a more profound...
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English
Public Health, Advocacy

Meeting on the impact of targeted programmes on health systems: a case study of the Polio Eradication Initiative

This report provides a summary of the discussions, main findings / conclusions,and recommendations resulting from the meeting, related to the impact of polio eradication activities on health systems f...
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English
Poliomyelitis/prevention & control, Evaluation Study, Anais de congresso

Distribution of vitamin A during national immunization days: a "generic" addendum to the Field Guide for Supplementary Activities Aimed at Achieving Polio Eradication, 1996 revision

Questions and answers related to vitamin A deficiency and supplementation. Document in pdf format; Acrobat Reader required.
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English, French
Vitamin A/therapeutic use, Vitamin A Deficiency/prevention & control, Immunization Programs

Towards a new prospective on health policy

The report ties together a number of separate studies and the results of discussions involving some 3,500 people at more than 90 events held over the course of developing the research conclusions. The...
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English
Health Policy, Advocacy

Fourth informal consultation on the polio laboratory network

It presents information on accreditation of Global Polio Network Laboratories, molecular epidemiology of wild poliovirus circulation, intratypic differentiation of polioviruses, laboratory communicati...
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English
Poliomyelitis/prevention & control, Poliovirus, Anais de congresso

Generic protocol to estimate the burden of Shigella diarrhoea and dysenteric mortality - field test version

It provides a general outline for a study in developing countries that will allow estimation of the local disease burden of Shigella infection, and describes the main proceduresinvolved. Document in p...
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English
Dysentery, Bacillary/epidemiology, Dysentery/mortality, Epidemiologic Studies, Reference Books, Guia [tipo de publicação]

Generic protocol for population - based surveillance of Haemophilus influenzae type B (HiB)

It describes a surveillance method that willallow estimation of the local burden of Hib disease and thereby assist individual immunization programme managers who are considering whether to add Hib con...
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: French, English
28441, Haemophilus influenzae type b, Haemophilus Infections/epidemiology, Meningitis, Haemophilus/epidemiology, vacinas e imunização

Generic protocol to examine the incidence of lower respiratory infection due to respiratory syncytial virus in children less than five years of age - field test version

It describes a surveillance system which willallow estimation of the local burden of severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease. Document in pdf format; Acrobat Reader required.
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections/epidemiology, Epidemiologic Studies, Child, Preschool, Reference Books, 28441, Guia [tipo de publicação]

Global eradication of poliomyelitis: report of the fourth meeting of the Global Technical Consultative Group for Poliomyelitis Eradication (TCG)

This report summarizes the technicaldeliberations of the fourth meeting of the TCG and contains the main recommendations of the TCG. Document in pdf format; Acrobat Reader required.
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Resource added in: 25/05/2001
Available languages: English
Poliomyelitis/prevention & control, Immunization Programs, vacinas e imunização, Anais de congresso