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Diagnosis and Management of Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder in Adults

A. Locke, N. Kirst, C.G. Shultz American Academy of Family Physicians (2015) C2

Building Trust and Mutual Respect: Strengthening Families Through the Rethabile "Happy Together" Parenting Program

Catholic Relief Services CRS; 4Children (2019) C1

The Rethabile positive parenting activity is being run by 4Children Lesotho with caregivers and teens ages 9 to 24 for the purpose of reducing harsh parenting practices (i.e., violence) and improving positive parenting practices. By promoting adult–child communication around topics such as HIV a... more

WHO interim guidance note: health workforce response to the COVID-19 pandemic: April 2020

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

This guidance note identifies strategic action for policy-makers and managers at the national, subnational and facility level to address these different challenges.

Subsidiarity .Annotated Bibliography

Provinske P. John Ryan Institute Center for Catholic Studies; St. Thomas University (2017) C1

Subsidiarity guides people to establish relationships where they can make decisions, accomplish good work, and live their lives in a manner that respects human dignity

Monitoring food and beverage marketing to children via television in the Kyrgyz Republic

World Health OrganizationEurope (2019) C_WHO

This report summarizes the results of a 2018 survey of food and beverage marketing to children via television in the Kyrgyz Republic. It explores the extent and nature of children’s exposure to marketing for food high in saturated fat, free sugars and/or salt via television in the country. The stu... more

Regulatory guidance for assessment and management of applications for marketing authorization of oxytocin

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Pharmaceutical regulators are at the forefront of ensuring that only safe and effective medicines are authorized and available in the market. This document builds on the recommendations in the above publication and has been prepared to specifically assist national medicines regulatory authorities to... more

WHO menu of cost-effective interventions for mental health

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

The menu was developed using the WHO-CHOICE methodology to prepare and update, as appropriate, WHO estimates of the cost-effectiveness of a range of mental health interventions, in line with the development of Appendix 3 to the global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable dis... more

Health effects of particulate matter: policy implications for countries in eastern Europe, Caucasus and central Asia

World Health Organization WHO (2013) C_WHO

Despite some improvements, current levels of air pollution still pose a considerable risk to the environment and to human health in the WHO European Region. One issue of concern is that monitoring of particulate matter is very limited in the countries of eastern Europe, the Caucasus and central Asia... more

Global medication waste management practices: challenges and opportunities in developing countries

Bataduwaarachchi, V.R.; and C.L.Weeraratne (2016) CC

International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology 5(6):2290-2294 DOI: 10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20164081

Integrating female genital mutilation content into nursing and midwifery curricula: a practical guide

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

This guide is intended to promote a global health sector response to FGM for the provision of high-quality prevention and care services to women and girls at risk of FGM or living with the consequences of FGM. It also aims to support the systematic development of pre-service and in-service FGM conte... more

Health effects of particulate matter

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2013) C_WHO

This paper summarizes the evidence about the health effects of air pollution from particulate matter and their implications for policy-makers, with the aim of stimulating the development of more effective strategies to reduce air pollution and its health effects in the countries of eastern Europe,... more

Monkeypox outbreaks outside endemic regions: scientific and social priorities
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A. Zumla; Valdoleiros, S. R.; Haider, N.; et al. The Lancet (2022) CC

As the world recovers from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and reflects on lessons learnt from failure of global public health systems to contain the global outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, new infectious disease threats, caused by movement of people globally, remain omnipresent, and repeated calls for mo... more

Guidelines for Prevention and Control of Chikungunya Fever - 2009

World Health Organization - Regional Office for South-East Asia (2009) CC

This guideline for the prevention and control of chikungunya fever (CF) is intended for use by all peripheral health workers in the Region and is based on the strategy outlined above. This document will focus mainly on preventing, predicting and detecting outbreaks, and after detection, investig... more

Guidelines for stopping mass drug administration and verifying elimination of human onchocerciasis: criteria and procedures

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

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... more

International Assistance for HIV/AIDS in the Developing World: Taking Stock of the G8, Other Donor Governments and the European Commission

Kates J. Kaiser Family Foundation (2006) CC

As the Group of Eight (G8) world leaders meet in Saint Petersburg, Russia for this year’s G8 Summit, it is important to take stock of international efforts to finance the response to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Financing a sufficient and sustained response to the epidemic has emerged as one of t... more

Best practices for haemoglobin measurement in population-level anaemia surveys: Technical brief (January 2024)

World Health Organization WHO; UN Children´s Fund UNICEF (2024) CC

Anaemia is a serious global public health problem that particularly affects young children, menstruating adolescent girls and women, and pregnant and postpartum women. It is a condition in which the number of red blood cells or the haemoglobin concentration within them is lower than normal, affectin... more

Toolkit for developing a multisectoral action plan for noncommunicable diseases: overview

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2022) C_WHO

This toolkit is a "how to" guide for developing, implementing and evaluating a multisectoral action plan for prevention and control of NCDs. It is targeted at policy-makers, planners and programme managers, and is intended to help countries, provinces and cities meet the requirements for achieving g... more

Toolkit for developing a multisectoral action plan for noncommunicable diseases: overview 2022

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2022) C_WHO

Indonesia: Strategi Dan Rencana Aksi Nasional Penanggulangan Hiv Dan Aids Tahun 2010 - 2014

Komisi Penanggulangan Aids Nasional 2010 (2010) C1