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- Emergency and critical care - World Health Organization (WHO)
Emergency care is an integrated platform for delivering accessible, quality and time-sensitive health care services for acute illness and injury across the life course Integrated emergency care services facilitate timely recognition, treatment management and, when needed, continued treatment of the acutely ill at the appropriate level of the
- Prehospital care delivery assessment - World Health Organization (WHO)
Health care referral is the explicit direction of a person seeking care from one site, provider or platform of care to another Immediate referral is referral for care that is urgently needed during the current health care encounter, usually involves the direct transfer of an individual to an appropriate facility or specialist for urgent care
- Urgent action needed as global diabetes cases increase four-fold over . . .
The analysis, conducted by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), highlights the scale of the diabetes epidemic and an urgent need for stronger global action to address both rising disease rates and widening treatment gaps, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
- Health system at breaking point as hostilities further intensify in . . .
This includes 1 hospital, 11 primary care centres, and 13 medical points within the evacuation zones, and an additional 5 hospitals, 1 field hospital, 9 primary care centres, and 23 medical points within 1000 metres of those zones North Gaza has been stripped of nearly all health care
- WHO calls for urgent transformation of care and support systems for . . .
On the UN International Day of Older Persons 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) is urgently calling for action to not only strengthen but transform the way countries provide care and support for older people, especially as we approach the halfway point of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030)
- Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Home care for families and caregivers
Accurate measurements and readings from a pulse oximeter are important signs in determining if and when a COVID-19 patient at home may need urgent care at a healthcare facility As a general rule, a decline below 90%, or a progressive downwards trend, can be an early warning of need for further medical assessment
- Aid cuts threaten fragile progress in ending maternal deaths, UN . . .
Urgent investment is needed to prevent maternal deaths The world is currently off-track to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal target for maternal survival Globally, the maternal mortality ratio would need to fall by around 15% each year to meet the 2030 target – significantly increasing from current annual rates of decline of
- Emergency critical care - World Health Organization (WHO)
The Basic Emergency Care Course (BEC) is a joint WHO ICRC IFEM learning programme for first contact health workers who care for patients with acute illness or injury BEC teaches a systematic approach to the initial assessment and management of time-sensitive conditions where early intervention saves lives
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