Violence and Injury Prevention

Care and services publications and resources

Below you will find both WHO and non-WHO publications and resources, including guidelines, meeting reports, articles related to care and services.

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Community-based rehabilitation guidelines (2010)

This publication provides practical guidance on how to develop and strengthen community-based rehabilitation programmes.

Strengthening care for the injured: success stories and lessons learned from around the world (2010)

This set of case studies documents some recent efforts to strengthen care for the injured in a variety of settings around the world.

Guidelines for trauma quality improvement programmes (2009)

These guidelines describe ways in which trauma care services can be strengthened through trauma quality improvement (QI) programmes for a wide range of circumstances and in countries at all economic levels.

Guidelines on the provision of manual wheelchairs in less resourced settings. (2008)

The guidelines, developed for use in less resourced settings, address the design, production, supply and service delivery of manual wheelchairs, in particular for long-term wheelchair users.

Mass casualty management systems (2007)

The guidelines are designed to help policy makers, decision makers and emergency managers at all levels, but especially at community level, to overcome the gaps in health system preparedness for managing mass casualty incidents.

WHO/ILEP technical guide on community-based rehabilitation and leprosy (2007)

This manual is for implementers of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) and leprosy programmes. Its main aim is to support the inclusion of people with leprosy in existing CBR programmes.

Prehospital trauma care systems (2005)

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This manual focuses on the most promising interventions and components of prehospital trauma care systems, particularly those that require minimal training and relatively little in the way of equipment or supplies.

Community based rehabilitation (2004)

The document emphasizes the importance of the direct participation of people with disabilities in planning and implementing community-based rehabilitation programmes, the need for increased collaboration among sectors providing services, and the need for government support and development of national policies.

Guidelines for essential trauma care (2004)

The guidelines seek to reduce the disparities in terms of trauma care between victims of trauma in high-income and low- and middle-income countries by establishing achievable and affordable standards for injury care worldwide. They set forth a list of essential trauma care services that are achievable in virtually every setting worldwide and lay out the various human and physical resources that are needed to assure such services.

Guidelines for medico-legal care for victims of sexual violence (2004)

The guidelines aim to improve professional health services for all individuals who have been victims of sexual violence by providing health care workers with the knowledge and skills that are necessary for the management of victims; standards for the provision of both health care and forensic services to victims; and guidance on the establishment of health care and forensic services for victims.

Resolution WHA60.22 on emergency-care systems

Meeting reports

Developing pre-hospital trauma care approach for South-East Asia

Report of an intercountry consultation. Ahmedabad, India, 2-4 July 2003

Consultation meeting to promote implementation of the guidelines for essential trauma care

Meeting report. Geneva, Switzerland, 10-11 June 2004

Articles

Global strengthening of care for the injured

Charles Mock, Manjul Joshipura, & Jacques Goosen; Bulletin of the World Health Organization; April 2004, 82 (4)

Publications from other WHO departments

Clinical management of survivors of rape

Developing protocols for use with refugees and internally displaced persons

Essential surgical care

E-learning toolkit

Extending essential care: integrated management of adolescent & adult illness

Stop TB Initiative

Surgical care at the district hospital

Non-WHO publications

Strengthening trauma care in Mexico and at a global level: essential trauma care project

Dr. Charles N Mock, PhD, et al. Trauma, January-April 2004, Volume 7, No. 1: pp 5-14.

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