Filter
13489
Filtered Results: 13489
Text search:
health
risks
Featured
Recommendations
1129
New Publications
3252
Language
Document type
No document type
7233
Studies & Reports
2293
Guidelines
1662
Manuals
631
Fact sheets
527
Strategic & Response Plan
420
Training Material
243
Situation Updates
172
Infographics
108
Resource Platforms
77
Brochures
48
Online Courses
39
Videos
23
Dashboards/Maps
12
App
1
Countries / Regions
Global
630
India
562
Kenya
340
South Africa
265
Sierra Leone
263
Ethiopia
250
Nigeria
239
Western and Central Europe
238
Liberia
232
Nepal
225
Uganda
218
Latin America and the Carribbean
211
Myanmar / Burma
201
Africa
185
Syria
176
Bangladesh
166
Rwanda
162
Zambia
157
Tanzania
155
Malawi
154
Ukraine
148
Congo, Democratic Republic of
138
Indonesia
127
Ghana
124
Philippines
111
Russia
109
Brazil
105
South Sudan
103
Eastern Europe
94
Mozambique
91
Zimbabwe
88
South–East Asia Region
86
West and Central Africa
85
Namibia
85
Middle East and North Africa
83
Senegal
82
Yemen
82
Guinea
79
Haiti
79
Germany
79
Lesotho
74
Cambodia
74
Venezuela
72
East and Southern Africa
71
Asia
67
Burkina Faso
60
Colombia
53
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
51
Botswana
50
Afghanistan
44
Pakistan
40
Lebanon
38
Cameroon
36
Sudan
35
Central African Republic
35
Eswatini/ Swaziland
34
Mali
32
Somalia
32
Madagascar
29
Benin
27
Jordan
27
Western Pacific Region
27
USA
26
Paraguay
26
Thailand
25
Peru
25
Vietnam
24
Angola
24
Tajikistan
22
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
21
Iraq
21
China
20
Niger
18
Chile
17
Guinea-Bissau
17
Argentina
17
Turkey
16
North America
16
Moldova
16
Ecuador
16
Albania
14
Laos
14
Spain
13
Sri Lanka
13
Palestine
13
Georgia
12
Mexico
11
Bolivia
11
Egypt
11
Chad
11
Libya
11
Burundi
10
United Kingdom
10
North Macedonia
9
Iran
9
Saudi Arabia
9
Greece
9
Togo
8
Kazakhstan
8
Kyrgyzstan
8
Papua New Guinea
8
El Salvador
7
Italy
7
Armenia
7
Jamaica
7
Belarus
7
Southern Africa
7
Malaysia
6
Tunisia
6
Portugal
6
Romania
6
Poland
6
Timor Leste/ East Timor
5
Serbia
5
Gambia
5
Singapore
5
Estonia
5
Hungary
5
Ireland
5
Turkmenistan
5
Honduras
5
Guatemala
5
Canada
4
Uzbekistan
4
Morocco
4
Japan
4
Djibouti
4
Bhutan
4
Switzerland
3
Fiji
3
Vanuatu
3
Mongolia
3
Qatar
3
Mauritania
3
Dominican Republic
3
Croatia
3
France
3
Mauritius
3
Israel
3
Bosnia and Herzegovina
3
Nicaragua
3
North Korea
2
Australia
2
Congo-Brazzaville
2
Bulgaria
2
Lithuania
2
Belgium
2
Azerbaijan
2
Austria
1
Cape Verde
1
Gabon
1
Uruguay
1
Denmark
1
Maldives
1
Norway
1
South Korea
1
Algeria
1
Morocco
1
French Guyana
1
Latvia
1
Slovakia
1
Solomon Islands
1
Bahamas
1
Cuba
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
4804
Clinical Guidelines
925
Public Health
757
Women & Child Health
665
Key Resources
565
Capacity Building
304
Pharmacy & Technologies
108
Annual Report MEDBOX
3
Toolboxes
COVID-19
1623
Mental Health
1088
HIV
952
TB
644
Planetary Health
535
Ebola
478
NCDs
440
Disability
427
Rapid Response
402
Conflict
382
AMR
342
Caregiver
340
Refugee
300
NTDs
298
Global Health Education
230
Natural Hazards
200
Pharmacy
183
Zika
134
Health Financing Toolbox
115
Cholera
98
Specific Hazards
84
Polio
75
Social Ethics
39
Typhoon
12
Health Financing
3
South Sudan
2
The WHO fact sheet on household air pollution highlights that around 2.1 billion people rely on solid fuels like wood and coal for cooking, using open fires or inefficient stoves. This leads to severe indoor air pollution, contributing to about 3.2 million premature deaths each year, including over ...
The document provides information on managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It emphasizes the importance of recognizing early symptoms such as persistent coughing, shortness of breath, and wheezing. The guide offers practical advice, including quitting smoking, avoiding lung irritant...
Safe sanitation is essential for health, from preventing infections to improving and maintaining mental and social
well-being. Lack of adequate sanitation contributes to diarrhoeal diseases, parasitic infections, and undernutrition, as
well as posing significant risks and causing anxiety, especial...
When situations occur in which unwanted events are rightly or wrongly connected with vaccination, they may erode confidence in vaccines and the authorities delivering them. This document presents the scientific evidence behind WHO’s recommendations on building and restoring confidence in vaccines ...
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...
Available in Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish; WHO and UNICEF policy brief, 19 April 2021
Persons with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, both directly because of infection, and indirectly because of restrictions to reduce the spread of the virus. Persons with di...
This report is part of the gender and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) initiative launched by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, which aims to strengthen the response to NCDs through a gender approach. It is part of a series of country profiles and a synthesis report. The country profile of Ukraine ...
Humanitarian emergencies result in a breakdown of critical health-care services and often make vulnerable communities dependent on external agencies for care. In resource-constrained settings, this may occur against a backdrop of extreme poverty, malnutrition, insecurity, low literacy and poor infra...
This field workbook supports the implementation of the interagency (FAO, UNICEF, WHO) “Communication for Behavioural Impact (COMBI): A toolkit for behavioural and social communication in outbreak response”. It is a handheld guide and notebook for applying the WHO COMBI methodology in 7-steps, du...
The manual provides suggestions for implementing the checklist, understanding that different practice settings will adapt it to their own circumstances.
The implementation manual is designed to help ensure that surgical teams are able to implement the checklist consistently. By following a few cri...
The main objective of this mission was to assess the level of preparedness of Guinea-Bissau in respect of the WHO consolidated checklist. The checklist helps countries to assess and test their level of readiness it is being used to identify concrete action to be taken and where countries will requir...
WHO Guidelines for malaria
recommended
25 Nov 2022
The WHO Guidelines for malaria bring together the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for malaria in one user-friendly and easy-to-navigate online platform.
The WHO Guidelines for malaria supersedes 2 previous WHO publications: the Guidelines for the treatment of mala...
Technical Update
Areas of Africa endemic for Buruli ulcer (BU), caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, also have a high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), with adult prevalence rates between 1% and 5% (Maps). However, there is limited information on the prevalence of BU–HIV coinfection....
Interim Guidance.
A number of medical problems have been reported in survivors, including mental health issues. Ebola virus may persist in some body fluids, including semen. Ebola survivors need comprehensive support for the medical and psychosocial challenges they face and also to minimize the ...
A number of medical problems have been reported in survivors, including mental health issues. Ebola virus may persist in some body fluids, including semen. Ebola survivors need comprehensive support for the medical and psychosocial challenges they face and also to minimize the ...
This is a resource pack for a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) surveys about Zika virus and its suspected complications such as microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome.
This resource and associated advice was requested by governments and response partners as a way to rapidly obtain valuab...
Guidelines on hepatitis B and C testing
recommended
Testing and diagnosis of hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) infection is the gateway for access to both prevention and treatment services, and is a crucial component of an effective response to the hepatitis epidemic. Early identification of persons with chronic HBV or HCV infection enables them to recei...
Global Burden of Disease (GBD) India Compare
recommended
Analyze data about India’s health levels and trends from 1990 to 2016 in this interactive tool. Use treemaps, maps, arrow diagrams, and other charts to compare causes and risks and explore patterns and trends by age and sex. Drill from a national view into specific details. Compare expected and ob...
WHO has issued a new recommendation on the length of bladder catheterization following surgical repair of a simple obstetric urinary fistula. Currently the length of catheterization is not standard and ranges from 5 to 42 days. The new guidance recommends a 7–10 day period of bladder catheterizati...
The provision of safe and efficacious blood and blood components for transfusion or manufacturing use involves a number of processes, from the selection of blood donors and the collection, processing and testing of blood donations to the testing of patient samples, the issue of compatible blood and ...
Every year, around 830 000 children die from unintentional or "accidental" injuries. The vast majority of these injuries occur in low-income and middle-income countries. However, dozens of prevention strategies and programmes exist. If they were integrated into other child survival programmes and im...
