Filter
7825
Filtered Results: 7825
Text search:
safety
Featured
Recommendations
792
New Publications
1977
Language
Document type
No document type
3986
Guidelines
1215
Studies & Reports
1179
Manuals
466
Strategic & Response Plan
292
Fact sheets
269
Training Material
148
Situation Updates
97
Resource Platforms
45
Infographics
45
Brochures
28
Videos
27
Online Courses
26
App
2
Countries / Regions
India
286
Global
286
Kenya
193
Sierra Leone
170
South Africa
151
Liberia
147
Western and Central Europe
141
Nigeria
137
Ethiopia
137
Syria
137
Myanmar / Burma
136
Uganda
119
Nepal
113
Latin America and the Carribbean
109
Bangladesh
107
Africa
100
Indonesia
91
Ukraine
89
Malawi
86
Rwanda
79
Zambia
77
Tanzania
77
Ghana
74
South Sudan
66
Congo, Democratic Republic of
65
Philippines
65
Russia
61
Guinea
57
Namibia
56
Yemen
56
Brazil
53
West and Central Africa
53
Middle East and North Africa
48
Germany
46
East and Southern Africa
43
South–East Asia Region
43
Senegal
41
Haiti
40
Mozambique
39
Zimbabwe
37
Lesotho
37
Eastern Europe
36
Burkina Faso
35
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
34
Cambodia
33
Asia
32
Botswana
29
Mali
28
Lebanon
26
Afghanistan
25
Venezuela
25
Pakistan
24
Eswatini/ Swaziland
24
USA
22
Sudan
21
Central African Republic
20
Vietnam
19
Jordan
18
Colombia
18
Angola
18
Chile
17
Cameroon
16
Western Pacific Region
15
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
14
Somalia
14
Thailand
14
Argentina
14
Peru
14
Guinea-Bissau
13
Iraq
13
Niger
11
China
11
Ecuador
11
Laos
11
Turkey
10
Libya
10
Tajikistan
10
Moldova
10
Palestine
9
United Kingdom
9
Benin
8
Bolivia
8
Madagascar
8
Albania
8
Spain
8
Chad
7
Greece
7
Sri Lanka
7
Paraguay
7
Papua New Guinea
6
Bhutan
6
Portugal
6
Saudi Arabia
5
Gambia
5
Singapore
5
Iran
5
Kazakhstan
5
North America
5
Egypt
4
Burundi
4
El Salvador
4
Poland
4
Southern Africa
4
Timor Leste/ East Timor
4
Romania
4
Kyrgyzstan
4
Georgia
4
Turkmenistan
4
Japan
4
Tunisia
4
Morocco
3
Togo
3
North Macedonia
3
Croatia
3
Guatemala
3
Mexico
3
Canada
3
Qatar
3
Uzbekistan
3
Mauritius
3
Belarus
3
Israel
3
Bosnia and Herzegovina
3
Mauritania
2
Dominican Republic
2
Switzerland
2
Serbia
2
Hungary
2
Honduras
2
Nicaragua
2
Fiji
2
Italy
2
Djibouti
2
Estonia
2
Lithuania
2
Gabon
2
France
2
Algeria
2
Malaysia
1
Ireland
1
Austria
1
Cuba
1
Armenia
1
Congo-Brazzaville
1
Bulgaria
1
Australia
1
Jamaica
1
Denmark
1
Belgium
1
Maldives
1
South Korea
1
Azerbaijan
1
French Guyana
1
Latvia
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
2678
Clinical Guidelines
583
Key Resources
500
Women & Child Health
427
Public Health
389
Capacity Building
153
Pharmacy & Technologies
105
Toolboxes
COVID-19
1077
Mental Health
572
HIV
419
Ebola
303
Conflict
302
Planetary Health
296
AMR
281
TB
272
Caregiver
268
Rapid Response
246
Disability
237
Refugee
213
Pharmacy
204
Natural Hazards
172
Global Health Education
133
NTDs
114
NCDs
112
Specific Hazards
74
Cholera
58
Zika
50
Polio
37
Health Financing Toolbox
33
Social Ethics
23
Typhoon
5
South Sudan
2
Health Financing
1
West Africa is experiencing the largest, most severe, most complex outbreak of Ebola virus disease in history. On 11 August 2014, WHO convened a consultation where the participants concluded that in the particular context of the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, it is ethically acceptable to of...
Clinical guideline, Methods, Evidence and Recommendations
In this guideline the following is covered: information needs of people with chronic hep
titis B and their carers; where children, young people and adults with chronic hepatitis B a-
should be assessed; assessment of liver disease, includi...
This guide to local production of WHO-recommended handrub formulations is separated into two discrete but interrelated sections:
Part A provides a practical guide for use at the pharmacy bench during the actual preparation of the formulation. Users may want to display the material on the wall of ...
In light of the decline in new Ebola cases, strategies are now needed to scale down the activities and bed capacities in Ebola care facilities. These facilities include Ebola treatment units, community care centres, Ebola treatment centres and isolation centres. The Governments of Guinea, Liberia an...
Safe excreta disposal is a top priority in an emergency, but one that takes time and extensive resources to implement. This Technical Briefing Note examines the use of poo bags for safe excreta containment and disposal in urban emergency settings. The Brief also explores ways of building more comple...
This manual has been developed to guide rapid risk assessment of acute public health risks from any type of hazard in response to requests from Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO). The manual is aimed primarily at national departments with health-protection responsibilities, Nationa...
WHO Pharmacovigilance indicators: a practical manual for the assessment of pharmacovigilance systems
This manual provides a practical method for determining the pharmacovigilance indices. It is designed to be simple and can be understood by any worker in pharmacovigilance without formal training in monitoring and evaluation. Pharmacovigilance as a medical discipline is crucial in preventing medicin...
Ebola is a serious disease. Pre-deployment training and follow-up support is required to help personnel working in affected countries work safely and effectively. The ePROTECT course is a basic self-learning online introduction for personnel being deployed to work on the Ebola response. You can acce...
Conceived as part of the CWS-A/P project on regional security and risk management, this book presents a
collection of testimonies from aid workers in some of the most insecure and volatile environments in the world.
The participants recount a broad array of security incidents, such as kidnappings,...
The document "Proteksyon Maladi" focuses on preventing waterborne and hygiene-related diseases through practical measures. It emphasizes the importance of personal hygiene, including washing hands with soap and clean water before eating, after using the toilet, and during food preparation. Maintaini...
Good primary care may lead to fewer avoidable hospitalizations, but unsafe primary care can cause avoidable illness and injury, leading to unnecessary hospitalizations, and in some cases, disability and even death.Implementing system changes and practices are crucial to improve ... at all levels of health care. Recognizing the paucity of accessible information on primary care, World Health Organization (WHO) set up a Safer Primary Care Expert Working Group. The Working Group reviewed the literature, prioritized areas in need of further research and compiled a set of nine monographs which cover selected priority technical topics. WHO is publishing this technical series to make the work of these distinguished experts available to everyone with an interest in Safer Primary Care.The aim of this technical series is to provide a compendium of information on key issues that can impact safety in the provision of primary health care.
Selection and Use of Essential Medicines 2021
recommended
The 23rd meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Selection and Use of Essential Medicines was coordinated from Geneva, Switzerland, and held virtually from 21 June to 2 July 2021. The Committee considered 88 applications proposing additions, changes and deletions of medicines, medicine classes and fo...
Now entering its ninth year, the crisis in north-east Nigeria has created vulnerabilities and humanitarian concerns. An estimated 7.7 million men, women, boys and girls are in acute need of protection and assistance. While the humanitarian community has provided life-saving assistance to over 5.6 mi...
2018 South Sudan Humanitarian Needs Overview
recommended
This document provides the Humanitarian Country Team’s shared understanding of the crisis, including the most pressing
humanitarian needs and the estimated number of people who need assistance. It represents a consolidated evidence base and
helps inform joint strategic response planning.
As ...
VADEMECUM | This Vademecum is intended to provide a benchmark for aid workers—whether working in the field or at a strategic level—in particular concerning the formulation and implementation of programmes of prevention or response to humanitarian crises. It is not solely a theoretical document b...
MODULE 5 RESOURCE GUIDE | This guide is part of a series of manuals that focuses on six topics in Early Childhood Development (ECD): different programming approaches, basic concepts, assessments, early childhood environments, children with special needs and child protection, and the health, ... and nutrition of young children. The series was prepared within a three-year CRS-led project called “Strengthening the Capacity of Women Religious in Early Childhood Development,” or “SCORE ECD.” Funded by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the project helps Catholic sisters in Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia in their work with children aged 0-5 years and their families. The project is being implemented from January 2014 to December 2016
These guidelines provide a recommendation on iodine thyroid blocking (ITB), via oral administration of stable iodine, as an urgent protective action in responding to a nuclear accident. This recommendation aims to support emergency planners, policy makers, public health specialists, clinicians and o...
WHO Regional Publications, Western Pacific Series No. 23
Reports the findings and recommendations of a working group convened to prepare guidelines for the use of herbal medicines in Western Pacific countries. Addressed to national health authorities, the report responds to the widespread use o...
Reports the findings and recommendations of a working group convened to prepare guidelines for the use of herbal medicines in Western Pacific countries. Addressed to national health authorities, the report responds to the widespread use o...
Commissioned by Plan International the report draws on data from research conducted in Bangladesh in April 2018. It explores how adolescent girls within two age brackets (10-14 and 15-19) understand the unique impact the crisis has upon them, and how they have responded to the challenges they face.<...
PQM conducted an assessment of the medicine quality assurance and quality control systems in Rwanda during November 9-13, 2009. Medicine quality assurance remains to be developed in Rwanda: the country has neither a medicine regulatory authority (MRA) nor a national medicine quality control laborato...
