Sentences with phrase «trained health workers»

Designed for administration by trained mental health professionals, it can also be taught, with adaptations, to less trained health workers.

That costs more than ten times as much as the oral vaccine and requires trained health workers to administer it, says Roland Sutter, a vaccinologist at the WHO.

Poorly trained health workers were paid piecemeal for performing sterilizations and inserting intrauterine devices.

Trained health workers administered a laptop - based questionnaire at baseline that covered demographic and socioeconomic status, lifestyle factors, and medical history.

Globally, we face a terrible shortage of trained health workers, and new mothers need their support.

It also helps mother to connect to trained health workers in select cities in India.

As societies change, however, in particular with urbanization, support for mothers from a wider circle is needed, whether it is provided by trained health workers, lactation consultants, community leaders, or from friends who are also mothers, and / or from fathers / partners.

Donor contributions help us buy medical supplies and food for the poor and fund the salaries of national midwives in the Philippines, and help us travel to train health workers in lifesaving skills around the globe.

Train every health worker in the maternity service to help every baby and mother to initiate breastfeeding, the nature's way.

Train health workers to counsel mothers.

Summary: The IYCN Project designed this three - day training module in French to train health workers in Haiti to counsel HIV - positive mothers on optimal infant feeding during the time their child receives his or her first HIV test and mothers learn the results.

No. 1, Aug. 1992 url: http://www.who.int/chd/publications/newslet/update/updt-09.htm Breastfeeding Counselling: A Training Course Breastfeeding: Training health workers.

Secondly, how should we train health workers about the protection and support of breast feeding?

If it does not stop, consult a trained health worker.

Meanwhile, the US, UK and France are sending troops to build treatment units, train health workers and keep order.

The TMC is developing a project in Bombay to train health workers to check more than 70 000 women a year for breast cancer.

Washington University in St. Louis is training health workers from India, Rwanda, Guatemala and Peru to conduct a massive study on how the smoke from traditional cook stoves affects women and children.

Together with Bali Fokus, Ismawati is currently leading a program which trains health workers and women in Indonesia's artisanal and small - scale gold mining hotspots to reduce the community's risk of exposure to mercury — a metal used in gold extraction — and identify early symptoms of mercury poisoning.

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Health care, perquisites, and other benefits are being cut back, employee training programs shelved, and support for creativity and innovation diminished, while the gap in compensation between rank - and - file workers and executives has widened dramatically.

Panjabi is using his $ 1 million 2017 TED Prize winnings to fulfill his wish of creating a digital health education system that can be used to «recruit the largest army of community health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, connect, and empower,» as he explained during his TED talk in health education system that can be used to «recruit the largest army of community health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, connect, and empower,» as he explained during his TED talk in health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, connect, and empower,» as he explained during his TED talk in Health Academy, a global platform to train, connect, and empower,» as he explained during his TED talk in April.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

Unions in the utility industry, health care and manufacturing industries are using knowledge and skills as the key source of worker power by expanding apprenticeship training, creating partnership with community colleges, vocational schools, and employers to fill the «middle skills» gaps that exist today or will grow as skilled baby boomers retire.

Certain industries in particular, such as computer and IT, medical and health, and education and training, increasingly offer compensation for flexible employees that is on par with salaries and benefits paid to traditional workers.

We also fight for strong and accessible public services such as universal health care, education, worker training, elder / home care and child care and early learning.

These trained workers need subsidized salaries and, like all of us, decent health care.

As such a center works its way into the lives and needs of disadvantaged peoples, however, more and more expert persons are brought into the picture in some capacity — health center personnel, social agency workers, persons who can find jobs, vocational training teachers, and many others.

Long - range improvement in both the prevention and treatment of mental illness depends on two factors — training of mental health workers and research.

In most mental hospitals there are shortages in all the mental health professions: psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists, and clinically trained chaplains.

The challenge of our day is for the pastor to see his job as enabler and to begin to train laymen for the more challenging task of community mental health workers.

The service, directed by a clergyman, employs two trained social workers, and a nearby mental health center provides part - time services of a psychiatrist to consult, teach, and supervise.

One who reads fine print would have learned that various levels of government have cut training funds for mental health workers.

The challenge of our day, however, is for the pastor to see his job as enabler and to begin to train laymen for the more challenging task of community mental health workers.

Benefits for approximately 1.5 million small - scale farmers and workers around the world include: • A fair price on products • Improved access to low - or no - interest loans • Technical assistance for building infrastructure • Communications systems • Collectively - owned transport & processing equipment • Better health care & education • Training & skill diversification

On behalf of the Rainforest Alliance, they are training tea estate workers and smallholder farmers to adopt simple, time - tested methods that safeguard soil health and water quality and protect workers from dangerous chemical exposure.

That means helping farmers, forest managers and tourism businesses realize greater economic benefits by ensuring ecosystems within and around their operations are protected, and that their workers are well - trained and enjoy safe conditions, proper sanitation, health care and housing.

As part of the Rainforest Alliance certification process, SAN auditors collect information about salaries, including non-monetary benefits such as housing and medical care, and help to ensure that work hours are regulated, overtime is voluntary and compensated, and workers receive health and safety training.

The tool builds extensively on a framework of ante and post-natal interviews developed as part of the European Early Promotion Project Primary Health Care Worker Training Manual.

Rolling MaMoni out in a region requires an initial investment to get the infrastructure and health workers in place, to train volunteers, and so on.

The small operating costs are covered by the government (e.g. salaried health workers) and a lot of the work is done by volunteers (who are trained and provided with the materials through the MaMoni project).

I now spend gratifying days preparing and training new lactation professionals, lecturing health workers professionals on updating and improving the breastfeeding «piece» of their knowledge, and educating anyone who will listen on the importance of breastfeeding and the science of lactation management.

In California's Central Valley, Colleen developed a county - wide educational track for nurses to train as midwives in order to help reduce high pre-term birth and teen pregnancy rates in Kern County, and provided well woman and prenatal care in a community health center primarily serving migrant farm workers.

Mothers need ongoing skilled breastfeeding support from midwives, lactation consultants, community health workers, or appropriately trained peer counsellors to enable exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months.

Some get interested in breastfeeding through their work as health care providers - doctors, nurses, midwives, social workers, dietitians, and therapists who realize that their formal training did not provide enough information on breastfeeding management.

As The Ollie World founder says, «As a trained social worker, my experience in infant mental health had acquainted me with the timeless technique of swaddling.

• Helping mothers develop skills and techniques to ensure breastfeeding goes well • Providing expertise in the management of breastfeeding challenges • Training other healthcare workers using current evidence based knowledge • Collaborating with other healthcare workers to meet the family's needs • Investigating and participating in research • Educating policy makers on the economic and health benefits of breastfeeding • Advocating for services to support breastfeeding

Depending on the location, a mother may have access to lactation consultants or other trained health care workers, or not.

However, the costs of breastfeeding are mostly borne by the mothers and the cost of breastfeeding training by individual health care workers or hospitals.

With support from the NGO Wellstart International and UNICEF, training materials were adapted, and in just four years over 7,500 health workers learned to help women breastfeed effectively.

Training in breastfeeding medicine for health care workers must be paid for by hospitals or by the health care workers themselves, again at considerable cost, by contrast with education on artificial baby food, which is offered at no charge by the infant food industry.

However, the costs of breastfeeding are mostly borne by the mothers and those for breastfeeding training mostly by the individual health care workers or hospital, while the health insurance companies and society - at - large are profiting from the financial savings from exclusive and long - term breastfeeding.