This website offers resources that describe and comment on law and policy responses to the Zika Virus.
Zika Resources including response activities and resources for pediatricians from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
This resource is focused on the comprehensive health needs of infants and children affected by Zika Virus (ZIKV). It is intended as a planning resource for states and ommunities as they develop a coordinated response to meet the immediate and long term needs of infants and children affected by ZIKV, and their families. The resource guide applies a system of care approach and builds on existing Federal and State services and programs for supporting children with special health care needs (CSHCN). This information will assist states and communities in effectively leveraging and integrating existing programs and assessing programmatic flexibilities to augment their systems of care to address ZIKV.
The Fogarty International Center has provided top news and resources that address the Zika Virus.At NIH, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is working with its partners in government, academia, and the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries to better understand Zika virus, the disease it causes, and ways to combat it. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at NIH is studying how Zika virus infection affects reproductive health, pregnancy, and the developing fetus. NIH is also funding many research projects to study Zika virus.
Guidelines and technical documents around Zika
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The Public Health Improvement Resource Center is a searchable database that has recently been improved to include additional and updated resources to better help users build and improve public health systems. Some of the Resource Center's latest resources include:
-Using a Population Health Driver Diagram to Support Health Care and Public Health Collaboration
-Opportunities to Improve Population Health by Integrating Governmental Public Health and Health Care Delivery: Lessons from the ASTHO Million Hearts Quality Improvement Learning Collaborative
-Improved Population Health Through More Dynamic Public Health and Health Care System Collaboration
-Writing a Grant Application for Funding
-Why Don Berwick Is Almost Right: How Public Health Quality Improvement Operates Within Complex Systems
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WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
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