This presentation focuses on the cultural and clinical care appropriate for Haitians. It discusses: religious orientations, communication (written, oral, nonverbal), activities of daily living, food practices, symptom management, birth rituals, developmental and sexual issues, family relationships, illness beliefs, health issues, and death rituals.

This resource provides downloadable health materials in Haitian Kreyol.

Post-operative pain management guidelines

Crush injury and crush syndrome may result from structural collapse during an earthquake. Crush injury is defined as compression of extremities or other parts of the body that causes muscle swelling and/or neurological disturbances in the affected areas of the body. Typically affected areas of the body include lower extremities, upper extremities, and trunk. Crush syndrome is localized crush injury with systemic manifestations.

For curative programmes in hospitals and dispensaries guidance for prescribing.

This is a practical manual intended for health professionals, physicans, pharmacists, nurses, and medical auxiliaries involved in curative care and drug managment.

The Hesperian Foundation urges you to distribute this manual in Haitian Creole to as many people as possible. It provides practical, easily understood information on how to diagnose, treat, and prevent common diseases. Special attention is focused on nutrition, infection and disease prevention, and diagnostic techniques as primary ways to prevent and treat health problems.

These guidelines have been extracted from the WHO manual Surgical Care at the District Hospital (SCDH), which is a part of the WHO Integrated Management on Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (IMEESC) tool kit.

Best Practice Protocols Clinical Procedures Safety

Checklist before inducing anaesthesia and Operating Room guidelines.

This document provides background information on the composition and use of the emergency health kit. Chapter 1 describes supply needs in emergency situations and is intended as a general introduction for health administrators and field officers. Chapter 2 explains the selection of medicines and medical devices ‐ renewable and equipment ‐ which are included in the kit and also provides more technical details intended for prescribers. Chapter 3 describes the composition of the kit, consisting of the basic and complementary units.

This chapter is divided into three main sections: Health Systems and Infrastructure; Control of Communicable Diseases; and Control of Non- Communicable Diseases. The organisation of the chapter promotes a systems approach to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health services during a disaster.This is the most reliable means of ensuring that priority health needs are identified and met in an efficient and effective manner. Principles such as supporting national and local health systems, coordination and standardisation are stressed throughout.

The guidelines jointly prepared by the WHO Regional Offices for South-East Asia and the Western Pacific have been prepared specifically to assist infection control practitioners in the integrated management of hospital-associated infections prevention and control (for both curative and preventive activities such as good environmental practices like proper administration of health care wastes, water quality control, etc.) and to ensure that health care administrators understand the significance of infection control programmes.

The mission of the team responsible for Devices and Clinical Technology in the World Health Organization Department of Blood Safety and Clinical Technology (WHO/BCT) is to promote the quality of clinical care through the identification, promotion and standardization of appropriate procedures, equipment and materials, particularly at district hospital level. WHO/BCT has identified education and training as a particular priority, especially for non-specialist practitioners who practise surgery and anaesthesia.

This document would guide in developing integrated Hospital Plans that are consistent with the city or community disaster management plans. Emphasis is laid on strengthening the functioning, coordination and response for an enhanced pre-hospital and hospital care. It is ensured that these guidelines are in accordance with the “National Disaster Management Guidelines for Medical Preparedness and Mass Casualty Management” brought out by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) led the implementation of the Haiti Health Systems 2004 (HS-2004) Project, working to improve the Haitian population's access to high-quality health services and building systems that can be sustained by Haiti's own technical and financial resources. During the first phase of the project (1995-2000), MSH and its partners established an NGO network to streamline services, deliver a minimum package of services, and develop strategies to inform and eduacate the public.

This book was written to help women care for their own health, and to help community health workers or others meet women’s health needs. We have tried to include information that will be useful for those with no formal training in health care skills, and for those who do have some training.

Open injuries have a potential for serious bacterial wound infections, including gas gangrene and tetanus, and these in turn may lead to long term disabilities, chronic wound or bone infection, and death. Wound infection is particularly of concern when injured patients present late for definitive care, or in disasters where large numbers of injured survivors exceed available trauma care capacity. Appropriate management of injuries is important to reduce the likelihood of wound infections.

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The risk for injury during and after a natural disaster is high. Tetanus is a potential health threat for persons who sustain wound injuries. Tetanus is a serious, often fatal, toxic condition, but is virtually 100% preventable with vaccination. Any wound or rash has the potential for becoming infected and should be assessed by a health-care provider as soon as possible.