Filter
5140
Filtered Results: 5140
Text search:
falls
Featured
Recommendations
418
New Publications
1374
Language
Document type
No document type
2917
Studies & Reports
910
Guidelines
604
Manuals
255
Fact sheets
146
Strategic & Response Plan
128
Training Material
81
Brochures
41
Situation Updates
24
Infographics
17
Resource Platforms
13
Online Courses
3
Videos
1
Countries / Regions
Germany
334
India
225
Global
206
Kenya
133
South Africa
116
Ethiopia
95
Sierra Leone
92
Uganda
92
Nepal
90
Western and Central Europe
90
Nigeria
81
Myanmar / Burma
81
Liberia
80
Malawi
74
Bangladesh
72
Tanzania
71
Zambia
70
Ghana
64
Syria
63
Africa
57
Senegal
52
Ukraine
51
Rwanda
51
Latin America and the Carribbean
45
South Sudan
43
Philippines
41
Congo, Democratic Republic of
38
Zimbabwe
35
Venezuela
34
Namibia
32
Lesotho
31
Eastern Europe
31
Guinea
30
Colombia
27
Asia
26
Indonesia
26
Yemen
25
Mozambique
24
South–East Asia Region
22
Argentina
22
Burkina Faso
21
Cambodia
21
West and Central Africa
21
Paraguay
20
Cameroon
19
Botswana
19
Afghanistan
18
Central African Republic
18
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
17
East and Southern Africa
16
Pakistan
16
Haiti
15
Russia
15
Eswatini/ Swaziland
15
Sudan
14
Jordan
13
Ecuador
13
Middle East and North Africa
12
Brazil
12
Chile
11
Mali
11
El Salvador
9
Switzerland
8
Thailand
8
Benin
8
Laos
8
USA
8
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
8
Lebanon
8
Moldova
8
Somalia
8
Western Pacific Region
7
Bolivia
7
Papua New Guinea
7
Madagascar
7
Tajikistan
6
Mexico
6
Peru
6
Vietnam
6
Sri Lanka
6
Iran
5
Niger
5
Austria
5
Greece
5
North Macedonia
4
China
4
Albania
4
Georgia
4
Gambia
3
Togo
3
Fiji
3
Singapore
3
Burundi
3
Morocco
3
Dominican Republic
3
Guinea-Bissau
3
Hungary
3
North America
3
Jamaica
3
Tunisia
3
Romania
3
Palestine
3
Libya
3
Bhutan
3
Iraq
3
Serbia
2
Turkey
2
Canada
2
Kyrgyzstan
2
Uzbekistan
2
Malaysia
2
Armenia
2
Lithuania
2
Saudi Arabia
2
United Kingdom
2
Spain
2
Egypt
2
Poland
2
Honduras
2
Angola
2
Chad
2
North Korea
1
Timor Leste/ East Timor
1
Australia
1
Kazakhstan
1
Estonia
1
Vanuatu
1
Bulgaria
1
Italy
1
Croatia
1
Ireland
1
Gabon
1
Norway
1
Portugal
1
Morocco
1
Latvia
1
Nicaragua
1
Djibouti
1
Slovakia
1
Solomon Islands
1
Guatemala
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
1887
Clinical Guidelines
328
Women & Child Health
260
Public Health
255
Key Resources
212
Capacity Building
112
Pharmacy & Technologies
39
Toolboxes
Refugee
428
COVID-19
405
Mental Health
403
HIV
266
TB
227
Disability
200
Planetary Health
200
Conflict
180
Ebola
133
Caregiver
126
Global Health Education
116
Rapid Response
106
NTDs
86
Natural Hazards
84
NCDs
84
AMR
83
Pharmacy
72
Health Financing Toolbox
72
Social Ethics
41
Specific Hazards
39
Polio
26
Zika
21
Cholera
14
South Sudan
2
Health Financing
1
Typhoon
1
An interregional meeting on leishmaniasis among neighbouring endemic
countries in the Eastern Mediterranean, African and European regions was organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern
Mediterranean in Amman, Jordan, from 23 to 25 September 2018. The meeting w...
Scabies is a skin infection that is a result of direct skin to skin contact and is primarily mediated by close and extended contact with scabies infested person. Scabies occurs worldwide among people of all ages, races, genders and social classes and has been identified as a neglected tropical infec...
The objectives of the meeting were:
1. To update the current status of the disease transmission, country capacities and plans for tackling the disease.
2. To understand the epidemiology including disease distribution and risk, the models
for estimating under-detection, the geographical variati...
Wiping out Trachoma from Nepal – How Nepal eliminated trachoma as a public health problem
WHO - 2018
Snakebite envenoming affects millions of people worldwide annually and is a significant source of mortality. Preventing and treating the problem is complex and requires collaboration among the fields of public health, medicine, ecology, and laboratory science. After being removed from the category A...
Schistosomiasis is widely recognized as a disease that is socially determined. An
understanding of the social and behavioural factors linked to disease transmission and
control should play a vital role in designing policies and strategies for schistosomiasis
prevention and control. To this must b...
The fifth World Food Safety Day (WFSD) will be celebrated on 7 June 2023 to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks, contributing to food security, human health, economic prosperity, agricultural production, market access, tourism and sustainable developm...
WHO strongly recommends discontinuation of the nerve tissue vaccine, and replacement with modern concentrated and purified cell culture derived vaccines (CCDV) and embryonated eggbased rabies vaccines.
These vaccines must comply with WHO criteria for potency and innocuity following satisfactory ass...
Rabies is a fatal viral zoonosis and serious public health problem.1 All mammals are believed to be susceptible to the disease, and for the purposes of this document, use of the term animal refers to mammals. The disease is an acute, progressive encephalitis caused by viruses in the genus Lyssavirus...
Promoting health and preventing disease is a critical component of the effort required to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). to date, efforts to achieve UHC have focused mostly on strengthening health systems and their capacities to provide curative care. However, experience from the COVID-19 ...
Improving the survival chances and quality of life of women, newborns, and children remains an urgent global challenge. Since 2012, substantial progress has been made in reducing maternal and under-5 deaths, and a only handful of countries are on target to meet the SDG targets in 2030. Yet, 5 millio...
Training in monitoring and epidemiological assessment of mass drug administration for eliminating lymphatic filariasis: learners’ guide. World Health Organization.
Driving progress towards rabies elimination: Results of Gavi’s Learning Agenda on rabies and new WHO position on rabies immunization
The chapter Fostering Health Systems’ Monitoring to Better Serve Older Populations is part of the publication series entitled Decade of Healthy Aging: Situation and Challenges. The publications are designed to favor the prioritization of effective actions at the local level as well as the monitori...
This report presents the results of the official United Nations estimates and projections of urban and rural populations for 233 countries and areas of the world and for close to 1,900 urban settlements with 300,000 inhabitants or more in 2018, as published in World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 ...
Following the publication of Guidelines on certification of elimination of human onchocerciasis in 2001 by the World Health Organization (WHO), these are the first evidence-based guidelines developed by NTD Department according to the international standards. They provide a set of recommendations th...
This fourth WHO report on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) reviews the progress made towards achieving the Roadmap targets for 2020, noting the remaining challenges, then looks beyond 2020 to evaluate the changing global health and development landscape, considering the implications of integrating...
WASH and Health working together: a ‘how-to’ guide for neglected tropical disease programmes
recommended
2nd edition. This toolkit provides step-by-step guidance to NTD programme managers and partners on how to engage and work collaboratively with the WASH community to improve delivery of water, sanitation and hygiene services to underserved population affected by many neglected tropical diseases. The ...
The 2023 Country Presence Report provides an overview of what WHO does in countries to advance towards the SDGs and implement GPW13, how we do it, with whom we work, and what is needed to overcome challenges for achieving results and impact in countries.
Emergency medical teams (EMT) are first response health care providers – doctors, nurses, paramedics, and others – during outbreaks and emergencies or disasters, working with governments, charities such as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), armies, and international organizations such as the ...
