Filter
7917
Filtered Results: 7917
Text search:
medical
approaches
Featured
Recommendations
721
New Publications
2006
Language
Document type
No document type
4528
Studies & Reports
1326
Guidelines
1015
Manuals
410
Strategic & Response Plan
287
Training Material
136
Fact sheets
113
Situation Updates
55
Brochures
15
Resource Platforms
12
Infographics
12
Online Courses
6
App
1
Videos
1
Countries / Regions
India
369
Global
297
Kenya
249
South Africa
192
Sierra Leone
163
Western and Central Europe
158
Ethiopia
157
Uganda
152
Nepal
146
Liberia
144
Nigeria
139
Tanzania
118
Myanmar / Burma
114
Bangladesh
110
Africa
108
Malawi
105
Zambia
104
Ukraine
98
Syria
93
Rwanda
91
Latin America and the Carribbean
91
Ghana
87
Philippines
66
Namibia
66
Congo, Democratic Republic of
59
Eastern Europe
59
Zimbabwe
55
Russia
51
Cambodia
49
Asia
49
Lesotho
48
Guinea
47
West and Central Africa
47
South–East Asia Region
46
South Sudan
45
Indonesia
43
East and Southern Africa
43
Senegal
39
Mozambique
36
Burkina Faso
33
Middle East and North Africa
33
Haiti
32
Botswana
32
Germany
31
Colombia
28
Yemen
28
Venezuela
27
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
26
Cameroon
24
Brazil
24
Eswatini/ Swaziland
23
Pakistan
21
Afghanistan
20
Jordan
19
Lebanon
19
Western Pacific Region
19
Vietnam
17
Moldova
15
USA
14
Somalia
14
Thailand
14
Mali
13
Iraq
13
Benin
13
Central African Republic
13
Sudan
12
Tajikistan
12
Peru
11
Laos
11
Albania
10
Georgia
10
Madagascar
9
North America
9
North Macedonia
8
Turkey
7
China
7
Argentina
7
Burundi
7
Sri Lanka
7
Southern Africa
7
United Kingdom
7
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
6
Paraguay
6
Poland
6
Palestine
6
Hungary
5
Greece
5
Libya
5
Chile
5
Armenia
5
Iran
5
Kyrgyzstan
5
Egypt
4
Ecuador
4
Bolivia
4
Angola
4
Mexico
4
Bhutan
4
Canada
4
Romania
4
Kazakhstan
4
Jamaica
4
Guinea-Bissau
3
Niger
3
Togo
3
Chad
3
Singapore
3
Papua New Guinea
3
Serbia
3
El Salvador
3
Guatemala
3
Fiji
3
Timor Leste/ East Timor
3
Turkmenistan
3
Mauritius
3
Morocco
2
Saudi Arabia
2
Gambia
2
Honduras
2
Nicaragua
2
Other region
2
Italy
2
Mongolia
2
Bulgaria
2
Estonia
2
Lithuania
2
Slovakia
2
Uzbekistan
2
Japan
2
Tunisia
2
Portugal
2
Spain
2
Belarus
2
Malaysia
1
Ireland
1
Dominican Republic
1
Croatia
1
Qatar
1
Gabon
1
Denmark
1
Belgium
1
France
1
Maldives
1
Norway
1
Israel
1
Latvia
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
2884
Clinical Guidelines
610
Public Health
461
Women & Child Health
438
Key Resources
312
Capacity Building
162
Pharmacy & Technologies
81
Annual Report MEDBOX
2
Toolboxes
Mental Health
732
COVID-19
656
HIV
625
TB
370
Disability
348
AMR
257
Caregiver
249
Conflict
236
Ebola
225
Planetary Health
221
Rapid Response
211
NTDs
171
NCDs
167
Refugee
149
Pharmacy
141
Global Health Education
129
Natural Hazards
83
Health Financing Toolbox
59
Specific Hazards
52
Social Ethics
40
Cholera
37
Polio
36
Zika
31
Typhoon
4
Health Financing
2
South Sudan
1
During the year 2022, COVID-19 continued to be a significant challenge in Eritrea as in many other countries across the world. As COVID-19 devastated communities around the world, WHO worked with the MoH to strengthen the National and Sub-National health systems in order to meet community needs and ...
Since 2000, concerted efforts by national programmes, supported by public–private partnerships, nongovernmental organizations, donors and academia under the auspices and coordination of the World Health Organization (WHO), have produced important achievements in the control of human African trypan...
Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease with epidemic potential, especially after a heavy rainfall,
caused by a bacterium called Leptospira. Leptospira interrogans is pathogenic to humans and
animals, with more than 200 serologic variants or serovars. Humans usually acquire
leptospirosis through dire...
Snakebite envenoming is a potentially life-threatening disease that typically results from the injection of a mixture of different toxins (“venom”) following the bite of a venomous snake. Envenoming can also be caused by venom being sprayed into a person’s eyes by certain species of snakes tha...
Snakebite envenoming affects millions of people worldwide annually and is a significant source of mortality. Preventing and treating the problem is complex and requires collaboration among the fields of public health, medicine, ecology, and laboratory science. After being removed from the category A...
Those who clean are the first line of defense against health care-associated infections (HAIs), and support efforts to reduce antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Strengthening the training of this important group can contribute to resolving many of today’s public health challenges. This is importan...
The fifth World Food Safety Day (WFSD) will be celebrated on 7 June 2023 to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks, contributing to food security, human health, economic prosperity, agricultural production, market access, tourism and sustainable developm...
The WHO Pharmaceuticals Newsletter provides you with the latest information on the safety of medicinal products and regulatory actions taken by authorities around the world.
In addition, this edition includes summary and recommendations from the virtual meeting of the members of the WHO Programme f...
BMJ Open 2021;11:e042279. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042279. Neglected tropical diseases tend to cluster in the same poor populations, and to make progress with their control, they will have to be dealt with in an integrated manner. Peptide microarrays may be a solution to tese problems, where diagnos...
En la actualidad, los daños que sufren los pacientes a causa de una atención poco segura constituyen un desafío
importante y creciente para la salud pública mundial y son una de las principales causas de muerte y discapacidad
en todo el mundo. La mayor parte de estos daños son evitables. Ahor...
J Glob Health Sci. 2020 Jun;2(1):e3. A group of enzootic and zoonotic protozoan infections, the leishmaniases constitute among the most severely neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and are found in all continents except Oceania. Representing the most common infectious diseases, NTDs comprise an open-...
A study set out to investigate the factors affecting the prevalence of the practice among cross-border communities in East Africa and the Horn of Africa and the extent to which people cross borders to practise or undergo FGM and the effects of the practice on the women and girls in those communities...
The WHO Living guideline: Drugs to prevent COVID-19 contains the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for the use of drugs to prevent COVID-19. The latest version of this living guideline is available in pdf format (via the ‘Download’ button) and via an online platform.
Guidelines ...
Africa is off track to reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and lags behind in building resilient health systems
and health security, against a backdrop of limited resources. The world envisaged a significant role for governments
in funding the Sustainable Development Agenda, but inadeq...
The chapter Dementia in Latin America and the Caribbean: Prevalence, Incidence, Impact, and Trends over Time, is part of the publication series titled “Decade of Healthy Aging: situation and challenges”. This document aims to provide an outline of the current situation in Latin America and the C...
Due to high routine vaccination coverage, overall counts of diphtheria case have significantly declined in the Western Pacific Region recently. However, diphtheria is still prevalent in several countries and areas of the Region and remains a public health issue due to its high case fatality rate.
...
Small island developing states (SIDS) are a set of islands and coastal states that share similar sustainable development challenges, as a result of their size, geography and vulnerability to climate change. Thirty-nine WHO member states in four regions – the African Region, the Region of the Ameri...
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide in 2018, with 570,000 new cases and 311,000 deaths occurring annually.T he highest incidence rates are in Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, SubSaharan Africa, Western Africa, Melanesia, and Middle Africa . It also ranks as the leadin...
The Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE) provides WHO with rapid and flexible resources to respond to disease outbreaks and other health emergencies. The annual report provides an overview of the use and impact of the Fund over the previous year.
Strengthening rehabilitation in health emergency preparedness, response, and resilience: policy brief outlines the evidence for rehabilitation in emergencies and the need for greater preparedness of rehabilitation services. It shows how existing guidelines support the integration of rehabilitation i...
