This new publication presents the continuing and emerging challenges to children’s environmental health.
WHO recommends replacing western blotting and line immunoassays with simpler tests in HIV testing services. These simpler tests include rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) that can be used at the point-of...-care, and enzyme immunoassays (EIAs).
These tests get results to the client faster, produce accurate results more often, cost less, can be performed by various cadres of health providers, and can thus facilitate greater access and uptake of HIV testing services among those who need it most.
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This 2011 update of Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis is intended as a tool for use by public ...attribute-to-highlight medbox">health professionals working in response
to the Sixty-second World Health Assembly’s resolution on prevention and control of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.
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Interim practical manual supporting implementation of the WHO guidelines on core components of infection prevention and control programmes
WHO's Health in the Green Economy sector briefings examine the ...ht medbox">health impacts of climate change mitigation strategies considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their Fourth Assessment Report (Climate Change, 2007). Large, immediate health benefits from some climate change strategies are to be expected.
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Observations from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) WHO collaborative cross-national study
Epidemiology, Control, and Financing
This report reviews the current situation in relation to national capacity to address NCDs and the progress made at country level over the past dec...ade. It highlights that, while progress is being made, there is still much work to be done to create the infrastructure, policies, surveillance and health systems response that will allow NCDs and their contributing risk factors to be successfully contained and reversed.
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This report considers how to integrate health into urban planning, investments, and policy decisions, so as to support the implementation and achievement of ...x">the goals and objectives of the New Urban Agenda.
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Tobacco control legislation: an introductory guide
The main message emerging from this new comprehensive global assessment is that premature death and disease can be prevented through healthier environments – and to a significant degree. Analysing the...pan> latest data on the environment-disease nexus and the devastating impact of environmental hazards and risks on global health, backed up by expert opinion, this report covers more than 100 diseases and injuries.
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