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Mashup Score: 172Health Emergency Readiness for Response Operations - 23 day(s) ago
This training provides a high-level overview for decision-makers and technical experts from governments and key stakeholders or partners involved in Readiness Contingency Planning, and Implementation. Readiness Contingency planning (RCP) is part of a cycle in which the identification and regular monitoring of risks, vulnerabilities, and capabilities inform the planning and implementation of measures to mitigate the risks and to get ready to respond to high-priority risks or imminent health emergencies. This training defines key principles, approaches, and tools to assess your readiness status and plan for anticipatory actions to strengthen your readiness for response operations. *Photo credits: WHO / Tom Pietrasik*
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Mashup Score: 53Health emergency and disaster risk management for resilient cities - 6 month(s) ago
Cities have been at the centre of the COVID-19 pandemic where more than half of the world’s population reside. Cities have been deeply impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which continues to highlight the wide socio-economic inequities and multi-hazard risks that exist in the urban settings. This course examines the existing risk in cities and aims to introduce participants with knowledge and tools to manage all-hazard risks for effective health emergency and disaster risk management and building resilient cities from a health perspective. Additionally, the course highlights the importance of using equitable, gender-sensitive and human rights-based approaches; including the whole of society and maintaining alignment will all relevant international frameworks. *Photo credit:* WHO/ F. Lang
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Mashup Score: 75Courses | OpenWHO - 6 month(s) ago
Water safety planning is a comprehensive risk assessment and risk management approach that encompasses all steps in a drinking-water supply chain, from catchment to consumer. Water safety planning … Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) can cause significant disabilities and even death. These diseases affect more than 1.6 billion people worldwide, primarily among the most vulnerable communities. … In 2017, the WHO added chromoblastomycosis (also called chromomycosis) to the list of neglected tropical
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Mashup Score: 16Rabies & One Health: From basics to cross-sectoral action to stop human rabies deaths - 6 month(s) ago
Despite being fully preventable, dog-mediated human rabies kills tens of thousands of people every year, especially in rural and impoverished areas in Africa and Asia. This course provides participants with knowledge about the biology and epidemiology of this Neglected Zoonotic Disease, the current “Zero by 30” rabies elimination strategy, and how to prevent rabies in people and dogs by taking a One Health approach. The learning package consists of seven modules, which include downloadable video-lectures by global experts and professionals confronted with rabies in the field. *Photo credit: WHO/ [Budi Chandra][1]* [1]: https://photos.hq.who.int/search/results?sort_by=&s%5Bkeywords%5D=dog&s%5Bclass%5D=#
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Mashup Score: 55Welcome to OpenWHO - 6 month(s) ago
OpenWHO is WHO’s interactive, web-based, knowledge-transfer platform offering online courses to improve the response to health emergencies. OpenWHO enables the Organization and its key partners to transfer life-saving knowledge to large numbers of frontline responders.
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Mashup Score: 4
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 - 10 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 - 11 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: 5Inequality monitoring in immunization - 11 month(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: 57Courses | OpenWHO - 1 year(s) ago
Self-paced coursesOpenWHOInequities in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) throughout the world mean that certain population subgroups have systematically worse health outcomes an…Self-pacedNot disease specificRecord of AchievementenThe course “Foresight Approaches in Global Public Health” provides an overview of various methods and tools that can be…
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