Filter
5705
Filtered Results: 5705
Text search:
environmental
protection
Featured
Recommendations
520
New Publications
1606
Language
Document type
No document type
3244
Studies & Reports
1013
Guidelines
639
Manuals
308
Strategic & Response Plan
241
Fact sheets
95
Training Material
78
Situation Updates
46
Infographics
14
Brochures
12
Resource Platforms
11
Online Courses
3
App
1
Countries / Regions
Global
241
India
233
Kenya
165
Myanmar / Burma
127
Liberia
124
Sierra Leone
118
Western and Central Europe
116
Ethiopia
112
Uganda
111
South Africa
106
Nepal
104
Nigeria
101
Syria
101
Bangladesh
90
Latin America and the Carribbean
83
Zambia
79
Rwanda
78
Malawi
71
Tanzania
68
Ukraine
66
Africa
65
Ghana
64
Congo, Democratic Republic of
61
South Sudan
56
Philippines
47
Namibia
45
Zimbabwe
40
Yemen
40
Indonesia
38
South–East Asia Region
38
Cambodia
36
Lesotho
35
Guinea
34
Eastern Europe
34
West and Central Africa
33
Mozambique
32
Asia
31
Senegal
30
Haiti
28
Middle East and North Africa
28
Afghanistan
26
East and Southern Africa
26
Botswana
24
Germany
23
Central African Republic
22
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
21
Venezuela
21
Colombia
19
Russia
19
Pakistan
18
Jordan
18
Brazil
18
Somalia
17
Sudan
17
Eswatini/ Swaziland
17
Burkina Faso
16
Cameroon
15
Lebanon
15
Vietnam
15
Mali
14
USA
14
Western Pacific Region
13
Iraq
11
Thailand
11
Benin
11
Peru
11
Laos
11
China
9
Tajikistan
8
Moldova
8
Turkey
7
Palestine
7
Niger
6
North Macedonia
6
Chile
6
Paraguay
6
Georgia
6
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
5
Chad
5
Ecuador
5
Madagascar
5
Albania
5
Iran
5
North America
5
Turkmenistan
5
Togo
4
Egypt
4
Gambia
4
Sri Lanka
4
Southern Africa
4
Kyrgyzstan
4
United Kingdom
4
Saudi Arabia
3
Ireland
3
Argentina
3
Croatia
3
Burundi
3
Bolivia
3
Greece
3
Libya
3
Mexico
3
Poland
3
Djibouti
3
Timor Leste/ East Timor
3
Romania
3
Kazakhstan
3
Jamaica
3
Japan
3
Portugal
3
Spain
3
Guinea-Bissau
2
Malaysia
2
Papua New Guinea
2
Dominican Republic
2
Serbia
2
Hungary
2
Honduras
2
Angola
2
Bhutan
2
Armenia
2
Canada
2
Qatar
2
Lithuania
2
Australia
2
Belarus
2
Morocco
1
Mauritania
1
Singapore
1
Guatemala
1
Fiji
1
Italy
1
Bulgaria
1
Uzbekistan
1
Denmark
1
France
1
Maldives
1
Mauritius
1
Norway
1
Azerbaijan
1
Israel
1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1
Latvia
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
2113
Key Resources
388
Public Health
318
Women & Child Health
300
Clinical Guidelines
283
Capacity Building
113
Pharmacy & Technologies
50
Annual Report MEDBOX
2
Toolboxes
COVID-19
489
Mental Health
361
Planetary Health
356
HIV
330
Disability
309
Conflict
235
TB
183
Rapid Response
174
Ebola
170
Global Health Education
141
Natural Hazards
136
Refugee
135
Caregiver
134
AMR
121
NTDs
86
Pharmacy
78
Specific Hazards
72
NCDs
67
Zika
50
Health Financing Toolbox
40
Cholera
36
Polio
36
Social Ethics
28
Typhoon
5
South Sudan
2
Health Financing
1
Planetary health is a transdisciplinary approach that aims to advance the understanding of the links between human-driven changes to the planet and their consequences, and to develop appropriate solutions to the challenges identified. This emerging movement has not yet agreed upon a code of ethics t...
The toolkit's purpose is to:
improve the primary health care response for older persons.
sensitize and educate primary health care workers about the specific needs of their older clients.
provide primary care health workers with a set of tools/instruments to assess older people's hea...
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
This document highlights COVID-19 specific considerations in relation to camp and camp-like settings, and is intended to assist in guiding operations where camp/site management5 is being implemented. Although the guidance - structured around questions from the fiel...
School health programmes have been demonstrated to be the most cost-effective way to influence health behaviours in young people. The purpose of this two-part handbook is to support schools as they seek to implement interventions aimed at reducing the main modifiable risk behaviours f...
There is no question that over the last thirty years environmentaldegradation and the ecological crisis have become in our day and age apredominant sign of the times. In response to this worrisome develop-ment official documents of the Roman Catholic Church, at various lev-els, have sought to addres...
Updated version – September 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting everyone. Globally, millions of people have been infected with the virus, while hundreds of thousands have lost their lives. In Moldova, the pandemic is placing an ever-increasing pressure on the health care and social ... systems, causing major disruptions to economic processes and limitations to social life, deepening inequalities and proving how vulnerable we are.
The checklist is aligned with, and builds upon, existing COVID-19-related WHO guidelines and is structured around protective measures related to: 1) hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette; 2) physical distancing; 3) use of masks in schools; 4) environmenta... cleaning and ventilation; and 5) respecting procedures for isolation of all people with symptoms. The checklist is designed to support policy-makers, staff and officials from the education and health sectors, local authorities, school principals/leaders and administrators, teachers’ unions, community leaders, school staff, teachers, parents and caregivers.
These Blended Learning Modules cover the full range of health promotion, disease prevention, basic management and essential treatment protocols to improve and protect the health of rural communities in Ethiopia. A strong focus is on enabling Ethiopia to meet the Millennium Development Goals to reduc...
The report “Build back fairer: achieving health equity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region” provides ground breaking insights into the state of health inequities in the Region and urges countries to take action to address the social determinants of health to reverse the worsening trend of inequi...
Orientations provisoires, 28 janvier 2021
Dans cette version mise à jour des orientations sur la sécurité biologique en laboratoire en rapport avec le SARS-CoV-2, le virus responsable de la maladie à coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), les points suivants ont été ajoutés : aspects de...
The WHO Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches document is part of the WHO Guidance and technical packages on community mental health services set of publications. It provides a detailed description of person-centred and human rights-based ...
The Planetary Health Report Card is a student-driven, metric-based initiative to inspire planetary health and sustainable healthcare education engagement in medical schools. In addition to inspiring expansion of medical school curricula, we hope to inspire medical schools to expand research efforts,...
By almost any measure, human health is better now than at any time in history. Life expectancy has soared from 47 years in 1950–1955, to 69 years in 2005–2010, and death rates in children younger than 5 years of age have decreased substantially, from 214 per thousand live births in 1950–1955, ...
This report summarizes the latest scientific knowledge on the links between exposure to air pollution and adverse health effects in children. It is intended to inform and motivate individual and collective action by health care professionals to prevent damage to children’s health from exposure to ...
Bioethics 519 (online) doi:10.1111/bioe.12145 Volume 29 Number 8 2015 pp. 488–596;
Pandemic plans recommend phases of response to an emergent infectious disease (EID) outbreak, and are primarily aimed at preventing and mitigating human-to-human transmission. These plans carry presumptive weight ...
The Global guidance framework for the responsible use of the life sciences: mitigating biorisks and governing dual-use research (the framework) aims to provide values and principles, tools and mechanisms to support Member States and key stakeholders to mitigate and prevent biorisks and govern dual-u...
The war in Ukraine has had devasting impact on women and girls
worldwide, widening gender gaps and increasing rates of food insecurity, malnutrition and energy poverty. This brief reviews the available evidence of that impact, recommending urgent attention to its consequences for women and girls. I...
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 be a...
The introduction of vaccines for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) added another measure to the existing set of
recommended preventive measures (wearing a mask in public, keeping a distance from other people and regular handwashing). The roll-out of the vaccines, however, raised concerns that vac...
Cholera which disproportionally impacts poor countries and the most vulnerable continues to affect at least 47 countries across the globe, resulting in an estimated 1.3 – 4 million cases, and 21,000 - 143,000 deaths per year worldwide. In Ethiopia, despite major improvements seen in the increasing...
