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Mashup Score: 4Delivering quality health services to refugees and migrants from Ukraine - 10 month(s) ago
Health workers play a vital role in providing people-centred health services and building the resilience of health systems to respond to the health needs of refugees and migrants. This course develops knowledge and understanding among health workers and health services regarding application of the World Health Organization’s Refugee and Migrant Health: Global Competency Standards for Health…
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Mashup Score: 6Infodemic Management: Addressing health misinformation - 11 month(s) ago
In the recent years, the circulation of health misinformation and disinformation has exploded with the digitalized information ecosystem, affecting the ability of health systems to promote public health, especially during health emergencies. Public health workers need knowledge and skills to manage harm from health misinformation. This course will help them to better understand the infodemic…
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Mashup Score: 13Standard precautions: Hand hygiene - 12 month(s) ago
Most health care-associated infections are preventable through good hand hygiene – cleaning hands at the right times and in the right way. The WHO Guidelines on hand hygiene in health care support hand hygiene promotion and improvement in health care facilities worldwide and are complemented by the WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy, the guide to implementation, and implementation…
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Mashup Score: 0Foresight Approaches in Global Public Health - 1 year(s) ago
The course “**Foresight Approaches in Global Public Health**” provides an overview of various methods and tools that can be used to understand emerging trends and changes with a futuristic lens and to explore their potential impacts on global public health. Foresight creates space for thinking about new opportunities and possibilities, taking a longer-term perspective, and articulating current…
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Mashup Score: 5Inequality monitoring in immunization - 1 year(s) ago
Ensuring universal access to immunization promotes better population health and improved outcomes across diverse aspects of development. Unfortunately, however, the benefits of vaccines are spread unevenly. Monitoring inequality in vaccination coverage is a way to identify where inequalities exist and where disadvantaged subgroups stand in terms of access to and utilization of health services….
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Mashup Score: 11Introduction to Marburg Virus Disease - 1 year(s) ago
This course introduces Marburg Virus Disease and outlines the signs, symptoms, diagnosis, transmission routes and epidemiology of the disease. It also discusses prevention and control strategies. *Photo credits: WHO/Christopher Black*
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Mashup Score: 24
Health workers play a vital role in providing people-centred health services and building the resilience of health systems to respond to the health needs of refugees and migrants. This course develops knowledge and understanding among health workers and health services regarding application of the World Health Organization’s Refugee and Migrant Health: Global Competency Standards for Health…
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Mashup Score: 48For a healthier world: safely managed sanitation - 1 year(s) ago
This course has four modules and is designed to help governments, development agencies, civil society partners, and others working with them, to achieve safely managed sanitation (SMS) for their populations. Through the four modules, we’ll look at the state of the world’s sanitation, the health rationale for safely managed sanitation, what can be done at the national level, and tools to help you…
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Mashup Score: 51Introduction to Nipah virus disease - 2 year(s) ago
This course introduces Nipah virus disease and outlines the signs, symptoms, diagnosis, transmission routes and epidemiology of the disease. It also discusses prevention and control strategies. *Photo credits: Prof. CT Tan*
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Mashup Score: 73
This is an online orientation course to strengthen the competencies of health sector actors working in emergencies to establish, support and scale up Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in countries. The focus of this course is on how to apply existing practical, evidence-based, scalable tools and practice-led approaches for successful implementation of projects to strengthen MHPSS in…
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It’s #WorldRefugeeDay Together we can give refugees hope away from home. This #OpenWHO course helps health workers in host countries provide safe and quality care to people displaced by the war in #Ukraine: https://t.co/2zMP1kvshU https://t.co/X2qAXBlqJ0