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World Hand Hygiene Day 2025 - World Health Organization (WHO) In 2025, WHO celebrates 17 years of this global campaign The 2025 SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign day coincides with the need for countries to rapidly consider implementation of the global action plan and monitoring framework on infection prevention and control (IPC) – supported by a guide to implementation – and the need to continue to improve IPC as demonstrated in the latest WHO
Hospitals in the Western Pacific - World Health Organization (WHO) Hospitals are the dominant component of health service delivery Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) is impossible without clearly identifying the role of hospitals and optimizing their performance Nevertheless, countries continue to struggle to improve hospital planning and management
Water Sanitation and Health - World Health Organization (WHO) “Health care facilities” encompass all formally recognized facilities that provide health care, including primary (health posts and clinics), secondary, and tertiary (district or national hospitals), public and private (including faith-run), and temporary structures designed for emergency contexts (e g , cholera treatment centers)
Policy - World Health Organization (WHO) Policy Brief: Safer hospitals for safer patient care (EMRO) First regional workshop on patient safety : a report; Report of technical discussions and promoting patient safety at health care institutions at the CCPDM WHO South East Asia Region Conference: 2006; Performance Assessment Tool for Quality Improvement in Hospitals (PATH)
WHO reports outline responses to cyber-attacks on health care and the . . . During the COVID-19 pandemic, health information technology (IT) infrastructure was increasingly targeted by cyber-attacks, at times hindering hospitals from delivering timely care when it was needed most To restore IT systems and retrieve stolen data, health care facilities paid substantial ransoms
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
Key facts and figures - World Health Organization (WHO) Of every 100 patients in acute-care hospitals, seven patients in high-income countries and 15 patients in low- and middle-income countries will acquire at least one HAI during their hospital stay On average, 1 in every 10 affected patients will die from their HAI People in intensive care and newborns are particularly at risk
In the Line of Fire: Protecting Health in Armed Conflict Despite these legal protections, there has been an alarming rise in attacks against healthcare, representing grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law Hospitals, clinics and ambulances are frequently bombed, looted or significantly hampered from the delivery of essential medical services
Antimicrobial stewardship programmes in health-care facilities in low . . . Overview This toolkit aims to support countries in implementing Objective 4 of the Global Action Plan – ‘‘optimize the use of antimicrobial medicines” – by providing practical guidance on how to implement antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programmes in the human health sector at the national and health-care facility level in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)