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Violence against women 60 years and older: Data availability, methodological issues, and recommendations for good practice

UN Women (2024) CC

This briefing note summarizes work undertaken by UN Women and WHO to inform the development of a module on violence against ...omen 60 years and older that can be included in dedicated surveys on violence against women. It provides an overview of the challenges in the availability, measurement, and collection of data on violence against older women. It also makes recommendations to address some of the issues identified, with the aim of strengthening ongoing and future data collection efforts on violence against older women and increasing its availability. Developed as part of the UN Women–WHO Global Joint Programme on Violence Against Women Data, this methodological briefing note is one in a series that aims to strengthen the measurement and data collection of violence against particular groups of women or specific aspects of violence against women. These briefing notes are meant for researchers, national statistics offices, and others involved in data collection on violence against women. They seek to contribute to strengthening the quality and availability of data on violence against women and enhance global, regional, and national level monitoring of progress towards its elimination. more

Measuring violence against women with disability: Data availability, methodological issues, and recommendations for good practice

UN Women (2024) CC

Developed as part of the UN Women–WHO Global Joint Programme on Violence Against Women Data, this briefing note focuses on the measurement of vio... more

The community-based prevention of diabetes (ComPoD) study: a randomised, waiting list controlled trial of a voluntary sector-led diabetes prevention programme

Smith, J.R.; Greaves, C.J.; Thompson, J.L.; et al. (2019) CC2

This two-site randomised trial compared the effectiveness of a voluntary sector-led, community-based diabetes prevention programme to a waiting-list control group at 6 months, and included an observational follow-up of the intervention arm to 12 m... more

mDiabetes, an innovative programme to improve the health of people with diabetes in Senegal

World Health Organization Africa Region; WHO Africa (2016) C_WHO

It is estimated that 422 million people in the world live with diabetes. WHO forecasts that this number ...ill reach 622 million by 2040. The majority of people with diabetes live in developing countries. The number of people with diabetes is increasing, notably in Africa, from 3 adults among 100 people in 1980 to 7 adults among 100 people in 2014. more

World Diabetes Day 2023

Pan American Health Organization PAHO (2023) C_WHO

Every November 14, World Diabetes Day is commemorated. This is an opportunity to raise awareness about the impact of diabetes on the health of people and to highlight the opportunities to strengthen the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diabet... more

Framework of a national program for preventing and controlling diseases caused by respiratory viruses with epidemic and pandemic potential, Washington, D.C., 2024

Pan American Health organization PAHO; World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

At the global, national, and regional levels, there are several guidelines and guides regarding the preparedness, prevention, surveillance, and control of diseases caused by respiratory viruses; most initiatives focus on specific virus events or cases. During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ... more

Diabetes Key Facts - The number of people with diabetes rose from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014.

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone that regulate... more

Diabetes WHO - Arabic version

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

The World Health Organization's fact sheet on diabetes provides an overview of the disease, highlighting its increasing prevalence, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. It outlines the main types of diabetes—Type 1, Type 2, and gestat... more

Diabetes WHO - Chinese version

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

What is IHCI?

India Hypertension Control Initiative (2024) CC

Indian Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI) is a 5-year initiative involving the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Indian Council of Medical Research, State Governments, and WHO-India.

WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis: module 6: tuberculosis and comorbidities, 2nd ed

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) CC

Addressing comorbidities and risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) is a crucial component of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s End TB Strategy. This WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis. Mo... more

Implementing National Bridging Workshop roadmaps for One Health collaboration: successes and challenges from 17 countries

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

The health of humans, animals and environment is vitally interlinked. A majority of emerging and endemic human diseases have their origins in animals, be they transmitted directly, through food or the environment. The World Health Organization (...HO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, founded as OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations are the main international organizations responsible for proposing references and guidance for the public health, agriculture and animal health sectors respectively. WHO, FAO, WOAH has been an active promoter and implementer of an intersectoral collaborative approach between institutions and systems to prevent, detect, and control diseases among animals and humans. more

Development of WHO immunization policy and strategic guidance

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

This guidance describes the methods and processes of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization in developing evidence-based recommendations, WHO vaccine position papers, and other immunization policy guidance. Its aim is to faci... more

Global arbovirus initiative: preparing for the next pandemic by tackling mosquito-borne viruses with epidemic and pandemic potential

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

The risk of emergence and re-emergence of arboviruses with pandemic potential has increased as a global public health threat and will continue to do so in the years to come. The Global Arbovirus Ini... more

Preliminary evaluation of the WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care: report

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

The evaluation covers the period January 2020 to August 2023. The geographical scope of the evaluation has involved the three levels of WHO (global, regional and country levels) and external key partners. The programmatic evaluation scope ...as concerned with assessing the SP-PHC in the following areas/evaluation criteria: relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, added value, sustainability and equity, gender and human rights considerations. The evaluation did not assess the Universal Health Coverage Partnership (UHC-P) as it has its own separate governing body and reviews/evaluations, but instead considered how the SP-PHC had enhanced the value of the UHC-P and vice versa. The resilience and essential public health functions (REPHF) team and Systems’ Governance and Stewardship (SGS) were also not within the scope of this evaluation. However, these workstreams were considered in the wider conclusions and recommendations for the SP-PHC, as appropriate. Finally, the evaluation was focused on the SP-PHC; its scope did not include assessing the configuration and capacity of WHO’s departments and functions as they relate to UHC and health systems. more

Malaria vaccine: WHO position paper – May 2024

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

This position paper supersedes the 2022 WHO position paper on malaria vaccines. It includes the updated WHO recommendations on the use of the RTS,S/AS01 and R21/Matrix-M vaccines for the reduction o... more

A household-based community health worker programme for non-communicable disease, malnutrition, tuberculosis, HIV and maternal health: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial in Neno Distr

Wroe, E.B.; Nhlema, B.; Dunbar, E.L. et al. BMJ Global Health (2021) CC

Background: Community health worker (CHW) programmes are a valuable component of primary care in resource-poor settings. The evidence supporting their effectiveness generally shows improvements in disease-specific outcomes relative to the absence of... more

Compendium of WHO and other UN guidance on health and environment - 2022 update

World Health Organization WHO World Health Organization WHO; UN environment programme; UNDP; unicef (2022) C_WHO

The combined effects from ambient (outdoor) air pollution and indoor (household, in particular) air pollution cause approximately 7 million premature deaths every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, IHD, COPD, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections (1). Air pollution ... 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 u... more

The SAFER initiative - A world free from alcohol related harm

World Health Organisation (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the SAFER initiative in 2018 to address the global health and societal challenges posed by alcohol-related harm. The initiative outlines five key strateg... more