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Hospitals - World Health Organization (WHO) Hospitals complement and amplify the effectiveness of many other parts of the health system, providing continuous availability of services for acute and complex conditions. They concentrate scarce resources within well-planned referral networks to respond efficiently to population health needs. They are an essential element of Universal Health ...

Hospitals in Viet Nam - World Health Organization (WHO) Public hospitals in Viet Nam are divided into three levels: central level (47 hospitals); provincial level (419 hospitals) and district level (684 hospitals). Besides the public hospitals, the country also has 182 private hospitals, mostly located in urban areas. Hospitals are the dominant component of health service delivery.

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:

Improving hospital planning and management: Regional action framework ... document, a hospital is a health-care facility that provides inpatient health services, with continuous supervision and care of patients, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (American Hospital Association, 2014). Hospitals should also link to and support primary health services and health promotion in the community.

Fact sheet: Quality health services - World Health Organization (WHO) Inadequate quality of care imposes costs of US$ 1.4–1.6 trillion each year in lost productivity in LMICs. In high-income countries, 1 in 10 patients is harmed while receiving hospital care, and 7 in every 100 hospitalized patients can expect to acquire a health care-associated infection. It has been estimated that high quality health systems ...

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.

Patient safety - World Health Organization (WHO) Patient safety. Patient safety is a serious global public health concern. There is a 1 in a million chance of a person being harmed while travelling by plane. In comparison, there is a 1 in 300 chance of a patient being harmed during health care. Industries with a perceived higher risk such as the aviation and nuclear industries have a much ...

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 ...

The burden of health care-associated infection worldwide The burden of health care-associated infection worldwide. 29 April 2010. 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.

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 ...