Filter
2522
Filtered Results: 2522
Text search:
childhood
deaths
Featured
Recommendations
203
New Publications
789
Language
Document type
No document type
1674
Studies & Reports
388
Guidelines
208
Manuals
88
Strategic & Response Plan
62
Fact sheets
37
Training Material
35
Situation Updates
14
Brochures
7
Resource Platforms
4
Infographics
4
Online Courses
1
Countries / Regions
India
141
Global
116
Kenya
105
Nepal
70
Uganda
69
Sierra Leone
57
Nigeria
57
Ethiopia
57
Rwanda
55
Tanzania
49
Liberia
49
Malawi
47
Bangladesh
47
South Africa
47
Zambia
44
Ghana
42
Philippines
33
Africa
33
Western and Central Europe
32
Myanmar / Burma
32
Lesotho
31
Namibia
29
Cambodia
24
Latin America and the Carribbean
23
Syria
22
Zimbabwe
21
Mozambique
18
Senegal
16
South–East Asia Region
16
Indonesia
16
Eastern Europe
15
Asia
13
South Sudan
13
Burkina Faso
11
Botswana
11
Eswatini/ Swaziland
11
Guinea
10
Haiti
9
Congo, Democratic Republic of
9
Ukraine
8
Afghanistan
8
Yemen
8
Middle East and North Africa
7
Sudan
7
Cameroon
6
USA
6
West and Central Africa
6
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
6
Lebanon
6
Papua New Guinea
6
Brazil
6
Somalia
6
Pakistan
6
Venezuela
5
Jordan
5
Paraguay
5
East and Southern Africa
5
Russia
5
Iraq
5
Tajikistan
4
Thailand
4
Albania
4
Mexico
3
China
3
Western Pacific Region
3
Palestine
3
Turkey
2
Canada
2
Germany
2
Jamaica
2
Sri Lanka
2
Egypt
2
Mali
2
Colombia
1
Timor Leste/ East Timor
1
Benin
1
Gambia
1
Kazakhstan
1
Chile
1
Iran
1
Laos
1
Kyrgyzstan
1
Burundi
1
Qatar
1
Guinea-Bissau
1
Ireland
1
Saudi Arabia
1
Japan
1
Mauritius
1
United Kingdom
1
Portugal
1
Spain
1
Belarus
1
Israel
1
Southern Africa
1
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
1
Bolivia
1
Argentina
1
Djibouti
1
Greece
1
Georgia
1
Central African Republic
1
Chad
1
Libya
1
Bhutan
1
Ecuador
1
Madagascar
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
1181
Women & Child Health
237
Clinical Guidelines
217
Public Health
159
Key Resources
65
Capacity Building
39
Pharmacy & Technologies
8
Annual Report MEDBOX
1
Toolboxes
Mental Health
249
TB
149
HIV
112
COVID-19
100
Disability
80
Planetary Health
76
NCDs
72
Caregiver
64
Conflict
50
Refugee
44
Global Health Education
43
Rapid Response
31
Ebola
31
AMR
24
NTDs
21
Pharmacy
19
Natural Hazards
18
Health Financing Toolbox
16
Polio
12
Cholera
11
Specific Hazards
6
Social Ethics
5
Zika
5
Census Report Volume 4-C
The 2014 Myanmar Census provided the opportunity to measure maternal mortality. The questions on deaths in households during the twelve months prior to the Census were included in the questionnaire, as well as questions necessary to estimate maternal mortality indicator...
The 2014 Myanmar Census provided the opportunity to measure maternal mortality. The questions on deaths in households during the twelve months prior to the Census were included in the questionnaire, as well as questions necessary to estimate maternal mortality indicator...
Over half a billion children are living in areas with extremely high levels of floods and nearly 160 million children live in areas of high or extremely high droughts. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 26% of the annual 6.6 million deaths of children under five are linked to environ...
The DHS report itself explains the purpose was, “to obtain and provide information on basic indicators of social progress including fertility, childhood mortality, reproductive and child health, nutritional status of children, and awareness of HIV/AIDS and other health-related issues” in PNG. Th...
A healthcare worker manual. 2nd edition
The development of this National Manual for the Management of HIV-related Opportunistic Infections and Conditions for use by health care workers at the frontline of our fight against HIV/AIDS is intended to improve their understanding of the causes, preventio...
Antibiotic resistant bacteria are spreading at an alarming rate and some bacterial infections may once again be untreatable. Antibiotic resistance (ABR), conservatively calculated, causes more than 500 000 deaths every year. This number is projected to rise dramatically if radical actions are not ta...
Antibiotic resistant bacteria are spreading at an alarming rate and some bacterial infections may once again be untreatable. Antibiotic resistance (ABR), conservatively calculated, causes more than 500 000 deaths every year. This number is projected to rise dramatically if radical actions are not ta...
Internationally, there is a growing concern over antimicro-bial resistance (AMR) which is currently estimated to ac-count for more than 700,000 deaths per year worldwide. If no appropriate measures are taken to halt its pro-gress, AMR will cost approximately 10 million lives andabout US$100 trillion...
This is the story of how an experiment in the north of Ghana changed the health of a nation. How health staff in remote and rural areas are working tirelessly to prevent the deaths of mothers and children. How a radical approach to health research, known as embedded research, has revolutionized how ...
Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) was declared a global pandemic on 11 March 2020, and Malawi declared its first case on 2 April. As of 30 April, there were 36 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 and 3 deaths. A State of Disaster was declared by President Arthur Peter Mutharika on 20 March and a 21...
The Government of Republic of Zambia reported the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 on 18th March 2020. As of April 27th, 2020, there were 89 confirmed cases, three deaths and 42 recoveries. Confirmed cases are located in three provinces: Lusaka (83 cases), Copperbelt province (5 cases) and Central ...
The Government of Republic of Zambia reported the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 on 18th March 2020. As of April 27th, 2020, there were 89 confirmed cases, three deaths and 42 recoveries. Confirmed cases are located in three provinces: Lusaka (83 cases), Copperbelt province (5 cases) and Central ...
Poor sanitary conditions in disaster-stricken areas result in higher risk for diarrheal illness in vulnerable populations, especially children. This disease negatively impacts the nutritional status of affected children and causes significant morbidity and mortality. Early di...
The community-BFCI (c-BFCI) manual has been developed to facilitate training of CHVs and stakeholders providing nutrition sensitive services at community level. The manual covers a wide range of topics: basic nutrition, exclusive breastfeeding, complementary feeding, Breast Milk Substitutes Act, gro...
- Module 1: Understanding modelling approaches for sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, and nutrition
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a wide range of documented effects. It directly causes death and disability for some people infected. However, disruption to...
The WHO End TB Strategy aims to end the global TB epidemic by 2030, in alignment with Goal 3 of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN committed to ending the TB epidemic through adoption of WHO’s End TB Strateg...
By almost any measure, human health is better now than at any time in history. Life expectancy has soared from 47 years in 1950–1955, to 69 years in 2005–2010, and death rates in children younger than 5 years of age have decreased substantially, from 214 per thousand live births in 1950–1955, ...
The policy brief focuses on four key areas for intervention - air pollution, energy, transport and food systems. Air pollution causes 7 million deaths annually, and is a leading cause of both NCDs and climate change, thus all interventions to reduce air pollution have a positive impact on both human...
Pollution and health: a progress update
recommended
The Lancet Planetary Health Published:May 17, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00090-0
Every year pollution causes 9 million deaths—1 in every 6 deaths worldwide, according to a Lancet Commission on pollution and health.
While the number of deaths caused by household air pollution a...
This brief advocacy document highlights the burden, risks and prevention of injuries and violence, which took the lives of 4.4 million people in 2019 and constitute 8% of all deaths. Among the injury-related causes of death include road traffic crashes, drowning, falls, burns, poisoning and violence...
Regional implementation framework for elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem: 2021–2030
recommended
Cervical cancer continues to be a significant public health problem and a major cause of premature mortality among women, disproportionately affecting the socioeconomically disadvantaged population in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In the absence of implementing the known evidence-based, ...
