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Mental Health Atlas 2020 Country Profile: Guinea

(4 days ago) WEBDisease Outbreak News; Situation reports; Weekly Epidemiological Record; WHO in emergencies. Surveillance; Mental Health Atlas 2020 Country Profile: Guinea; Mental Health Atlas 2020 Country Profile: Guinea. 15 April 2022 Technical document. …

https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/mental-health-atlas-gin-2020-country-profile

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Mental health, COVID-19 and primary healthcare in Guinea : a tale …

(7 days ago) WEBThe daily coronavirus figures in Guinea make no mention of the socio-professional category of infected people. However, healthcare workers are at increased risk of contracting and spreading the virus. While the epidemic has a significant impact on the mental health of infected patients, the solidarity that originated in this epidemic …

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjgh/2020/06/29/mental-health-covid-19-and-primary-healthcare-in-guinea-a-tale-of-stigma-and-solidarity/

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15 may 2023 UNICEF GUINEA Humanitarian Situation Report

(2 days ago) WEBLassa fever outbreak. About 8,000 people were reached through distribution of WASH kits in four health facilities in the prefectures of Guekedou and Nzerekore in April 2023. 70 health centers in Labe (20), Nzerekore (20), Yomou (15) and Gueckedou (15) received hygiene kits that were then dispatched to an estimated 70,000 people. The water

https://www.unicef.org/media/140881/file/Guinea-Humanitarian-SitRep-Apr%202023.pdf

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Psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 in the Guinean …

(3 days ago) WEBGuinea, like many other African countries, has been facing an unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak, since March 2020. In April …

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245751

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How has Guinea learnt from the response to …

(8 days ago) WEBIntroduction Learning is a key attribute of a resilient health system and, therefore, is central to health system strengthening. The main objective of this study was to analyse how Guinea’s health system has learnt from …

https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/2/e010996

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Lassa fever - Guinea - World Health Organization (WHO)

(Just Now) WEBOn 22 April 2022, the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene of Guinea declared a Lassa fever outbreak following the laboratory confirmation of two cases from the Guéckédou prefecture in the …

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON382

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Mental Health ATLAS 2017 Member State Profile Guinea

(5 days ago) WEBMental health policy / plan. Stand-alone policy or plan for mental health: (Year of policy / plan): The mental health policy / plan contains specified indicators or targets against which its implementation can be monitored. Policy / plan is in line with human rights covenants (self-rated 5-point checklist score; 5 = fully in line)

https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/mental-health/mental-health-atlas-2017-country-profiles/gin.pdf?sfvrsn=61ca79e4_1&download=true

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USAID’s Our Health Activity Fact Sheet Guinea U.S. Agency for

(8 days ago) WEBThe health system is still recovering from the devastating impact of this epidemic. GOALS. The “Our Health” activity aims to bring accessible, affordable, and high-quality health care to Guinea. It will contribute to improving the health of vulnerable Guineans, especially women and children, through a wider rollout of an equitable and

https://www.usaid.gov/guinea/fact-sheet/jun-15-2023-usaids-our-health-activity

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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Guinea …

(7 days ago) WEBThe main center for mental health care in Guinea is the psychiatric service at Donka, a general hospital [39], with the World Health Organization declaring the outbreak “a public health

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335748909_Mental_Health_and_Psychosocial_Support_in_Guinea-Conakry

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Fear and culture: contextualising mental health impact of the …

(3 days ago) WEBIntroduction. The 2014–2016 Ebola virus disease (Ebola) outbreak in West Africa was the largest, longest, deadliest and most geographically expansive Ebola outbreak since the virus was first discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976. 1–5 Given the unprecedented escalation of the outbreak, the WHO declared it a Public …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6035506/

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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Guinea-Conakry

(2 days ago) WEB1 January 2015. A rigorous review of the literature on pre-existing information relevant to mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in Guinea, in the French and English languages. The report was requested by the World Health Organization (WHO) and completed by International Medical Corps. The report presents the findings using an

https://www.mhinnovation.net/resources/mental-health-and-psychosocial-support-guinea-conakry

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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Guinea-Conakry

(7 days ago) WEBFor example, a recent desk review in response to the West Africa Ebola epidemic focused on mental health and psychosocial considerations, Guinea Mental Health Profile, 2013. URL: http

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335741369_Mental_Health_and_Psychosocial_Support_in_Guinea-Conakry

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CDC in Guinea Global Health CDC - Centers for Disease Control …

(1 days ago) WEBThe epidemic started in Guinea and spread to several other countries, including Sierra Leone and Liberia. support since 2014 played an important role in Guinea’s increased capacity to rapidly contain the 2021 Ebola outbreak. Local health workers continue to systematically use rapid tests to confirm whether any deaths are due to Ebola in

https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/countries/guinea/default.htm

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Guinea Africa Health Organisation

(7 days ago) WEBGuinea is a country in the West coast of Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea, the modern country is sometimes referred to as Guinea-Conakry. Its population is 11 million people and GDP per capita of USD 523. AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria are major public health concerns in Guinea. The country is facing a generalized HIV epidemic and

https://www.aho.org/countries/guinea/

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Guinea - World Health Organization

(6 days ago) WEBFor the first time, the country has had to face an epidemic of Ebola virus haemorrhagic fever. General mortality has been running at 10.19‰ in 2015. Maternal mortality is 650 per 100 000 live Guinea’s health policy has experienced profound changes. In that year, the country launched an extensive reform of its health system at the

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/246211/ccsbrief_gin_en.pdf;sequence=1

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Ebola Outbreak and Mental Health - JAMA Network

(7 days ago) WEBThe World Health Organization (WHO) Ebola Response Roadmap declared that the affected West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone are “struggling to control the escalating outbreak” because of limited health system capacity and “rampant fear.” 1 The WHO director-general subsequently described how fear behaviors have …

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2086725

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Social Isolation and Loneliness: Understanding a Mental Health Crisis

(7 days ago) WEBSocial isolation and loneliness frequently co-occur but can also occur separately; both are associated with increased morbidity and mortality across all age groups, with worse health outcomes in mental, cardiovascular and neurological health. Perhaps most significantly, both are associated with an almost 30% higher rates of …

https://www.aha.org/news/blog/2024-05-15-social-isolation-and-loneliness-understanding-mental-health-crisis

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Psychosocial impacts of COVID-19 in the Guinean population. An …

(3 days ago) WEBGuinea, like many other African countries, has been facing an unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak, since March 2020. In April 2020, Guinean National agency for health security recorded 1351 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 313 recoveries and 07 deaths. To address this health crisis, some drastic measures were implemented to …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7853443/

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COVID-19 and mental health: War on two fronts for the Pacific

(5 days ago) WEBTwo public health crises collided: the coronavirus and the mental health epidemic. The first has triggered a record-breaking surge of the second. There are indications that the coronavirus has

https://reliefweb.int/report/papua-new-guinea/covid-19-and-mental-health-war-two-fronts-pacific

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A silent epidemic emerging: The rising mental health concern

(5 days ago) WEBAs the world emerges from the shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new challenge looms large and clear: A silent and pervasive epidemic of mental health disorders is taking shape.

https://www.philstar.com/lifestyle/health-and-family/2024/01/12/2308964/silent-epidemic-emerging-rising-mental-health-concern

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Three years on, Ebola survivors in Guinea still need support

(7 days ago) WEBN’ZEREKORE/DAKAR – Three years after the Ebola outbreak was first declared by Guinea’s Ministry of Health, many survivors continue to suffer from physical and mental health problems. The humanitarian medical organization ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action) is calling on actors to support Ebola survivors and their …

https://alima.ngo/en/ebola-survivors-guinea-need-support/

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Teens Told Us What They Need To Improve Their Mental Health.

(6 days ago) WEBAmerica’s teenagers are facing a mental health epidemic. Surveys estimate that 5 million adolescents experienced a major depressive episode in 2022, up from 2 million in 2010. Deaths by suicide went up by more than 50% among young people during the same period. Mental health services is the next resource young people use to …

https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/teens-told-us-what-they-need-mental-health-research

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What Parents Can Do About the Youth Mental Health Epidemic

(7 days ago) WEBLong before the COVID pandemic rates of youth mental illness have been skyrocketing - depression, anxiety, loneliness and suicide. Parents and caregivers can help quell this trend.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/inside-out-outside-in/202405/what-parents-can-do-about-the-youth-mental-health-epidemic

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Understanding the Opioid Overdose Epidemic Overdose …

(3 days ago) WEBConfronting the opioid overdose epidemic. CDC is committed to fighting the opioid overdose epidemic and supporting states and communities as they continue work to identify outbreaks, collect data, respond to overdoses, and provide care to those in their communities. Hundreds of people died each day from an opioid overdose in 2021.

https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/about/understanding-the-opioid-overdose-epidemic.html

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Closer to the mental health crisis: Mayors combat 'failed system'

(5 days ago) WEBSen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., was the mayor of Richmond from July 1998 to September 2001. He said he has seen mental health challenges intensify amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid epidemic. The

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/21/mental-health-crisis-mayors-congress/70441066007/

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Pressure to be perfect leads to parental burnout Ohio State …

(7 days ago) WEBThe toll of parental perfection on mental health. Data from the study shows that force of expectations from what Dr. Gawlik calls a “culture of achievement” leads to burnout (a state of physical and emotional exhaustion), which in turn leads to other, potentially debilitating issues. According to the study, if their children have a mental

https://health.osu.edu/community-health/health-and-society/pressure-to-be-perfect-leads-to-parental-burnout

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Mental Health Atlas 2017 Country Profile: Guinea

(7 days ago) WEBPublications of the World Health Organization. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select.

https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/mental-health-atlas-2017-country-profile-guinea

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British women add back and neck pain to mental health troubles …

(7 days ago) WEBWaiting lists haven’t recovered since the COVID-19 pandemic plunged the country’s state-run health service into turmoil, with the number of people waiting for treatment stubbornly fixed at 7.5

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/05/13/british-women-back-neck-pain-mental-health-troubles-long-term-sickness-out-of-work/?n=%40

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A bird flu primer: What to know and do - Harvard Health

(6 days ago) WEBBird flu, or avian flu, is a naturally occurring illness. Just as certain flu viruses spread among humans, Type A influenza viruses often spread among wild birds. The strain of virus circulating now is H5N1, named for two proteins on its surface. Avian flu infections are highly contagious.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/a-bird-flu-primer-what-to-know-and-do-202405083039

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Diphtheria-Guinea - World Health Organization (WHO)

(Just Now) WEBOn 5 September 2023, the Ministry of Health notified WHO of a diphtheria outbreak in Guinea. From 4 July to 13 October 2023, a total of 538 cases of diphtheria, were reported in the Kankan region, in the east-central part of Guinea. Of the total cases reported, 520 are suspected and 18 confirmed with 58 deaths including 13 among confirmed cases (case …

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2023-DON492

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Where is Bird Flu Spreading in the US? - Healthline

(4 days ago) WEBA recent paper from the Texas Epidemic Public Health Institute identified nine cities in Texas where H5N1 was detected in the wastewater between March 4th and April 25th. The paper is a pre-print

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/the-cdc-has-a-new-map-of-where-bird-flu-is-spreading-what-to-know

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Actor Sean Astin returns to Spokane to advocate for mental health

(7 days ago) WEBWhile mental illness is still a debilitating societal problem, especially on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, Astin has also seen an exponential jump in resources available to those afflicted

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/may/16/actor-sean-astin-returns-to-spokane-to-advocate-fo/

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USAID Integrates HIV and Mental Health Services at Community …

(4 days ago) WEBMental wellbeing is critical to successful HIV treatment, yet, people being treated for HIV are also at elevated risk of mental health issues. USAID and Lighthouse, a Vietnamese social enterprise providing both mental health and HIV services for at-risk populations, are training a cadre of peer educators to deliver integrated HIV support at …

https://www.usaid.gov/vietnam/news/may-17-2024-usaid-integrates-hiv-and-mental-health-services-community-health-care-clinics

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USAID Fosters Hospital Leadership’s Commitment to Staff Well Being

(9 days ago) WEBUSAID partnered with the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health on a comprehensive training program to improve the capacities of leadership at 45 area hospitals to address the mental health and well being of staff.

https://www.usaid.gov/vietnam/news/may-17-2024-usaid-fosters-hospital-leaderships-commitment-staff-well-being

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