Filter
5386
Filtered Results: 5386
Text search:
special
education
Featured
Recommendations
459
New Publications
1521
Language
Document type
No document type
3486
Studies & Reports
703
Guidelines
535
Manuals
270
Strategic & Response Plan
174
Training Material
97
Fact sheets
50
Situation Updates
33
Resource Platforms
14
Brochures
13
Infographics
6
Online Courses
3
App
1
Videos
1
Countries / Regions
India
281
Global
191
Kenya
174
Nepal
140
Uganda
125
Ethiopia
122
Nigeria
112
Myanmar / Burma
110
South Africa
101
Sierra Leone
99
Liberia
98
Western and Central Europe
92
Bangladesh
91
Zambia
88
Rwanda
84
Malawi
82
Tanzania
78
Ghana
74
Syria
67
Latin America and the Carribbean
63
Philippines
59
Namibia
55
Ukraine
51
Africa
50
Lesotho
42
Cambodia
40
Indonesia
39
South Sudan
35
Zimbabwe
34
South–East Asia Region
34
Asia
33
Haiti
30
Eastern Europe
30
Congo, Democratic Republic of
29
Botswana
29
Mozambique
28
Germany
25
Eswatini/ Swaziland
22
Yemen
21
East and Southern Africa
21
Venezuela
21
Guinea
20
Afghanistan
20
Senegal
18
Pakistan
18
Colombia
18
West and Central Africa
18
Cameroon
17
Lebanon
17
Middle East and North Africa
17
Vietnam
15
Burkina Faso
13
Thailand
13
Central African Republic
13
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
13
Jordan
12
Sudan
11
China
10
Brazil
10
Western Pacific Region
10
Russia
10
USA
9
Iraq
9
Laos
9
Peru
8
Sri Lanka
8
Albania
8
Tajikistan
8
Georgia
8
Mali
7
Somalia
7
Turkey
7
Greece
7
Palestine
7
Benin
6
North Macedonia
6
Madagascar
6
Moldova
6
Iran
6
Libya
5
Southern Africa
5
Argentina
4
Ecuador
4
Mexico
4
Timor Leste/ East Timor
4
Kazakhstan
4
North America
4
Turkmenistan
4
United Kingdom
4
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
3
Egypt
3
Malaysia
3
Papua New Guinea
3
Serbia
3
Hungary
3
Croatia
3
Bolivia
3
Japan
3
Spain
3
Ireland
2
Burundi
2
Honduras
2
El Salvador
2
Angola
2
Paraguay
2
Bhutan
2
Poland
2
Armenia
2
Estonia
2
Lithuania
2
Kyrgyzstan
2
Portugal
2
Azerbaijan
2
Israel
2
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2
Morocco
1
Saudi Arabia
1
Niger
1
Gambia
1
Singapore
1
Guatemala
1
Nicaragua
1
Other region
1
Fiji
1
Canada
1
Qatar
1
Bulgaria
1
Romania
1
Slovakia
1
Uzbekistan
1
Australia
1
Jamaica
1
Maldives
1
Mauritius
1
Tunisia
1
South Korea
1
Belarus
1
Latvia
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
2222
Clinical Guidelines
325
Women & Child Health
318
Public Health
274
Key Resources
237
Capacity Building
126
Pharmacy & Technologies
25
Annual Report MEDBOX
3
General Guidelines
1
Protection & Security
1
Toolboxes
Mental Health
439
Disability
401
HIV
378
COVID-19
321
TB
227
Conflict
171
Planetary Health
149
Caregiver
145
Refugee
136
Rapid Response
114
Ebola
105
NTDs
89
AMR
88
Global Health Education
80
Natural Hazards
76
NCDs
72
Pharmacy
67
Health Financing Toolbox
54
Social Ethics
38
Cholera
29
Specific Hazards
26
Polio
23
Zika
20
Typhoon
3
Health Financing
2
Vaccines are powerful weapons in the fight against pandemic viruses as shown by responses to both the 2009 H1N1 influenza and the COVID-19 pandemics. However, planning for accessing, allocating and deploying vaccines in a pandemic situation is a complex endeavour, beset with multiple challenges at a...
Benchmarking is a strategic process often used by businesses and institutes to standardize performance in relation to the best practices of their sector. The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have developed a tool with a list of benchmarks and corresponding suggested actions that can be a...
In this version of the compendium, each guidance is coded using the International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI).
The compendium provides a systematic compilation of published guidance from WHO and other UN organizations on health and environment. Guidance on policies and actions a...
A sanitary inspection is a simple, on-site evaluation (traditionally using a checklist) to help identify and support the management of priority risk factors that may lead to contamination of a drinking-water supply. Sanitary inspections are a well-established and widely-applied practice. They can su...
Small drinking-water supplies commonly experience operational, managerial, technical and resourcing challenges that impact their ability to deliver safe and reliable services. The needs and opportunities associated with these supplies therefore warrant explicit consideration in policies and regulati...
The incidence and mortality of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in low and middle income countries (LMICs) have been increasing, while access to CVDs medicines is suboptimal. We assessed selection of essential medicines for the prevention and treatment of CVDs on national essential medicines lists (NE...
Around the world, more than 2 billion people lack access to safely managed water, sanitation and hygiene services, with conflicts and climate change exacerbating the issue.
Unsafe and insufficient WASH facilities, especially in rural and remote areas, can lead to increased health complications fo...
Developed as part of the UN Women–WHO Global Joint Programme on Violence Against Women Data, this briefing note focuses on the measurement of violence against women with disability and is one in a series of methodological briefing notes for strengthening the measurement and data collection of viol...
The Resolution Population and Individual Approaches to the Prevention and Management of Diabetes and Obesity was approved by the 48th Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization, September 29- October 3, 2008, in response to the epidemic of obesity and diabetes currently affecting the ...
Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of disability and premature death throughout the world, and contributes substantially to the escalating costs of health care. The underlying pathology is atherosclerosis, which develops over many years and is usually advanced by the time symptoms occur, genera...
Unmet mental health needs in the Region of the Americas are a leading source of morbidity and mortality, which result in tremendous health, social, and economic consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the mental health crisis in the Region, necessitating urgent action at the highest leve...
One of the main aims of the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer and the CureAll Americas framework is to strengthen centers of excellence and promote the training of the health workforce, especially pediatric oncology nurses, specialized in nursing care for children and adolescents with cance...
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a growing public health problem in Ghana and other African countries. Strokes and other CVDs have become a leading cause of death due to increasing risk factors such as hypertension. According to the Global Burden of Disease study (GBD), ischaemic heart disease was...
This Guidance was developed in response to the increase in HIV-related human rights crises and the shrinking civic space for rights-related responses to HIV in recent years across the world. This document builds upon existing guidance documents, offering updated guidance for country-based United Nat...
This MHPSS in Emergencies training aims to prepare MHPSS responders, disaster managers, and emergency team leaders for work in the field by building understanding of basic concepts of MHPSS in emergencies as well as planning and implementing PSS activities. It is for MHPSS focal points from the Red ...
Obesity and diabetes are affecting the peoples of the Americas at high and increasing rates. National surveys demonstrate that obesity is increasing in prevalence among all age groups; 7% to 12% of children under 5 years old and
one-fi fth of adolescents are obese, while rates of overweight and obe...
Air pollution is a major environmental risk factor and contributor to chronic, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). However, most public health approaches to NCD prevention focus on behavioural and biomedical risk factors, rather than environmental risk factors such as air pollution. This article discus...
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 ...
Alcohol use is deeply embedded in the social landscape of many societies, and some 2300 million people drink alcoholic beverages in most parts of the world. At the same time, more than half of the global population aged 15 years and older reported having abstained from drinking alcohol during the pr...
Alcohol consumption is deeply embedded in the social landscape of many societies. Several major factors have an impact on levels and patterns of alcohol consumption in populations – such as historical trends in alcohol consumption, the availability of alcohol, culture, economic status and trends i...
