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Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (2024) CC

The webpage from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) discusses the global impact of diet on health, highlighting poor dietary habits as a major contributor to deaths worldwide, primarily through cardiovascular diseases. It emphasizes the health risks of high sodium intake and insu... more

Country cooperation strategy for WHO and Syrian Arab Republic: 2022-2025

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

WHO’s Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) defines the Organization’s medium-term vision for working in and with a particular country. The CCS, developed in the context of global and national health priorities, examines the overall health situation in a country, including the state of the health s... more

Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lungs Disease

Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) (2024) CC2

The GOLD website is dedicated to providing comprehensive information on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). It offers resources and guidelines for healthcare professionals and public health authorities to improve the diagnosis, management, and prevention of COPD worldwide. The site include... more

Air pollution affects millions of people worldwide

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (2024) CC2

The webpage from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) provides an analysis of air pollution as a significant global health risk. It details how air pollution contributes to severe health problems, including respiratory diseases and increased mortality rates. The site explains diffe... more

Read me – About the Health Financing Toolbox
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Tilman Rüppel medmissio (2024) CC

The Health Financing Toolbox is designed to equip development cooperation stakeholders with essential information on the internal and external financing of nation states, with a particular emphasis on health financing. To achieve this, the Health Financing Toolbox includes a comprehensive collection... more

The Global Asthma Network

Global Asthma Network (2024) CC2

Read about our flagship publication, The Global Asthma Report 2022, a 102-page cutting edge State-of-the-Art report, with contributions from 97 experts from, 31 countries. The theme for this year is "Asthma Education Empowers", and emphasizes the need to empower people with asthma with the approp... more

Desktop Helper No.2 - A practical guide to improve difficult-to-manage asthma in primary care

International Primary Care Respiratory Group IPCRG (2024) CC

This guide provides a systematic, practical approach to support primary care and other healthcare professionals to improve the care of peopel over the age of 18 years with difficult to manage asthma.

Malawi - Health Indicators

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

This dataset contains data from WHO's data portal covering the following categories: Air pollution, Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), Assistive technology, Child mortality, Dementia diagnosis, treatment and care, Dementia policy and legislation, Environment and health, Foodborne Diseases Estimates,... more

First WHO report details devastating impact of hypertension and ways to stop it

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) released its first-ever report on the devastating global impact of high blood pressure, along with recommendations on the ways to win the race against this silent killer. The report shows approximately 4 out of every 5 people with hypertension are not adequately t... more

Fact Sheet Hypertension

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The World Health Organization's fact sheet on hypertension provides a comprehensive overview of high blood pressure, highlighting its prevalence, risk factors, and health implications. It emphasizes that hypertension is a major cause of premature death worldwide, with an estimated 1.28 billion adult... more

Household air pollution - WHO

World Health Organisation (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) highlights the significant health risks associated with household air pollution, primarily resulting from the use of inefficient and polluting fuels and technologies for cooking, heating, and lighting. In 2020, approximately 2.1 billion people—about one-third of... more

Use of non-sugar sweeteners: WHO guideline 2023

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The document titled "Use of Non-Sugar Sweeteners: WHO Guideline" provides recommendations from the World Health Organization on the use of non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) to reduce sugar intake, manage weight, and prevent diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). It discusses the potential effects of... more

Sharing successful strategies from the Eastern Mediterranean Region in mitigating noncommunicable diseases and mentalhealth disorders during the COVID-19pandemic and beyond

World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (2023) C_WHO

The "Stories from the field" document by the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean shares effective strategies from the Eastern Mediterranean Region for addressing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health challenges, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights regio... more

Podcast: Chronic Respiratory Disease

Momtazmanesh S., Chiou P. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (2023) CC2

The webpage from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) features a podcast discussing chronic respiratory diseases and their global impact. It highlights the growing burden of diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma worldwide. The podcast provides ins... more

Global Initiatibe for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease - Pocket Guide 2023

Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease – GOLD (2023) CC2

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is now one of the top three causes of death worldwide and 90% of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). More than 3 million people died of COPD in 2012 accounting for 6% of all deaths globally. COPD represents an important public... more

The ‘jigsaw puzzle’ approach to building a diagnostic picture of asthma in primary care over time

Ryan, D.; Kocks, J.; Correia de Sousa, J. et al. International Primary Care Respiratory Group (2023) CC

Since there is no single objective diagnostic test for asthma this study suggests an approach of collecting and assembling pieces of clinical information to create a diagnostic picture, like making a jigsaw puzzle. These pieces should include demonstration of symptom and airway variability and/or br... more

Global, regional, and national prevalence of, and risk factors for, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in 2019: a systematic review and modelling analysis

Adeloye, D.; Song, P.; Zhu, Y. et al. (2022) CC2

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an increasingly important cause of morbidity, disability, and mortality worldwide. We aimed to estimate global, regional, and national COPD prevalence and risk factors to guide policy and population interventions.

The burden of asthma, hay fever and eczema in adults in 17 countries: GAN Phase I study

Mortimer, K.; Lesosky, M.; García-Marcos, L.; et al. (2022) CC2

Asthma, hay fever and eczema are three common chronic conditions. There have been no recent multi-country data on the burden of these three conditions in adults; the aims of this study are to fill this evidence gap. The Global Asthma Network Phase I is a multi-country cross-sectional population-bas... more

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European Respiratory Society guidelines for the diagnosis of asthma in adults

Renaud, L.; Imran, S.; Inigo, O., et al. European Respiratory Journal (2022) CC

Although asthma is very common, affecting 5–10% of the population, the diagnosis of asthma in adults remains a challenge in the real world, which results in both over- and under-diagnosis. A taskforce was set up by the European Respiratory Society to systematically review the literature on the dia... more

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Breathe easy: Learning about adolescent asthma

Ramnath, K. Media Production Archives (2022) CC

Asthma is a common breathing condition. Chances are that at least one in every fifth person will have it. People with asthma might have a cough, or wheeze and a feeling of tightness in their chests. A group of researchers from the United Kingdom teamed up with seven African countries to learn about ... more

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