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Hospitals - World Health Organization (WHO) Hospital functions and organization vary according to health-care delivery organizations and each hospital’s unique position in the system. Good management structures ensure coordination among staff, services, infrastructure and supply chains to deliver high-quality care.

Hospital emergency response checklist - World Health Organization (WHO) hospital-based emergency management principles and best practices and integrates priority action required for rapid, effective response to a critical event based on an all-hazards approach. The tool is structured according to nine key components, each with a list of priority action to support hospital managers and emergency planners in achieving:

Hospitals in Viet Nam - World Health Organization (WHO) Hospital autonomy reforms in Viet Nam were initiated in the 1990s, with a new policy allowing hospitals to charge user fees. It is well recognized that public hospitals in Viet Nam need to strengthen its finance and management and be effectively governed at the system level to drive improvement in quality and efficiency.

WHO Generic Essential Emergency Equipment List WHO training manual: Surgical Care at the District Hospital WHO Emergency Relief Items, Compendium of Basic Specifications* WHO/UNFPA Essential drugs and other commodities for reproductive health services WHO Essential Trauma Care Guidelines * For specifications, refer to this book.

The burden of health care-associated infection worldwide Health care-associated infection (HAI), also referred to as "nosocomial" or "hospital" infection, is an infection occurring in a patient during the process of care in a hospital or other health care facility which was not present or incubating at the time of admission.

Health Care Waste Management - World Health Organization (WHO) of hazardous health care waste per hospital bed per day; while low-income countries generate on average 0.2 kg of hazardous health care waste per hospital bed per day. (5) The management of health care waste is an integral part of a national health care system. However, it was found that between 20% and 60% of health care facilities in

Hospital safety index: guide for evaluators, 2nd ed. The purpose of this Guide for evaluators is to provide guidance to evaluators on applying the checklist, rating a hospital’s safety and calculating the hospital’s safety index. The evaluation will facilitate the determination of the hospital’s capacity to continue providing services following an adverse event, and will guide the actions necessary to increase the hospital’s safety and ...

Occupational health: health workers - World Health Organization (WHO) Safeguarding the health, safety and well-being of health workers is fundamental for well-functioning and resilient health systems. Health workers face a range of occupational risks associated with biological, chemical, physical, ergonomic and psychosocial hazards including violence, affecting the safety of both health workers and patients. The protection of health, safety and well-being of ...

Patient safety - World Health Organization (WHO) Hospital infections affect 14 out of every 100 patients admitted. Of every 100 hospitalized patients at any given time, 7 in high-income countries and 10 in low- and middle-income countries, will acquire health care-associated infections (HAIs), affecting hundreds of millions of patients worldwide each year.

Safe management of wastes from health-care activities, 2nd ed. This handbook – the result of extensive international consultation and collaboration – provides comprehensive guidance on safe, efficient, and environmentally sound methods for the handling and disposal of health-care wastes in normal situations and emergencies. Future issues such as climate change and the changing patterns of diseases and their impacts on health-care waste management are ...