For centuries, mistakes caused by lack of preparedness, negligence and outright intentional malevolent behavior has led to catastrophic loss of lives some of which were preventable. Public health mistakes have killed more people than all other natural disasters combined. Public Health disasters don’t just happen, even though they’re often unpredictable most of them can be […]
Globally, public health officials and other health personnel especially in the United States, Nigeria and many countries in Northern African and the Middle East have been combating misconceptions rumors and outright propagation of falsehood about vaccine safety and importance. During the cause of these “war”, they have recorded had mixed success. Despite the fact that […]
What is Public Health Ethics? Public Health Ethics refers to a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of public health and scientific research in public health including community medicine. In practice, ethics allow for people, regardless of their race, gender, or religion to be guaranteed quality and principled care. Medical ethics […]
Click on the link below to download The National Guidelines on Infection Prevention and Control of Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers National Guidelines on Infection Prevention and Control of Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers
The IDSR refers to a strategy and a tool that promotes rational use of resources by integrating and streamlining IDSR priority diseases (including EPDs) surveillance activities.The Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response framework makes surveillance and laboratory data more usable, helping public health managers and decision-makers improve detection and response to the leading causes of […]
Zika fever (also known as Zika virus disease) is an illness caused by Zika virus. Most cases have no symptoms, but when present they are usually mild and can resemble dengue fever. Symptoms may include fever, red eyes, joint pain, headache, and a maculopapular rash. What happens if you get the Zika virus? Zika virus […]
Click on the Link Below to Download The Preparedness and Response to Acute Watery Diarrhea Outbreaks Document Preparedness and Response to Acute Watery Diarrhoea Outbreaks Document Credit: NCDC Also See : Global Health Directory
Please note that 80% of individuals infected (health workers inclusive) with the virus are asymptomatic (show no symptom of the disease) while severe cases of the condition adversely affects several organs of the body including the liver, spleen and kidney . […]
We had just moved into the new apartment we built and I was happy that we could say bye-bye to the sea of never-ending cockroaches in our former abode. To ensure no cockroaches followed us to our new home, each item we took from our former house was wiped clean before being loaded into the […]
Guidelines for Assessing and managing children at primary healthcare facilities to prevent overweight and obesity in the context of the double burden of malnutrition As part of its response to the global epidemic of obesity, World Health Organization has issued new guidelines to support primary healthcare professionals and workers to identify and manage children who […]
