Filter
3685
Filtered Results: 3685
Text search:
Department
of
Health
and
Human
Services
-
USA
Featured
Recommendations
319
New Publications
1071
Language
Document type
No document type
2286
Studies & Reports
583
Guidelines
420
Manuals
198
Strategic & Response Plan
91
Training Material
49
Fact sheets
26
Situation Updates
22
Resource Platforms
4
Infographics
3
Brochures
2
App
1
Countries / Regions
India
142
Kenya
130
Global
119
Uganda
94
South Africa
91
Nepal
88
Ethiopia
83
Malawi
75
Nigeria
73
Myanmar / Burma
70
Liberia
68
Zambia
61
Tanzania
59
Latin America and the Carribbean
53
Sierra Leone
51
Bangladesh
49
Western and Central Europe
47
Rwanda
46
Ghana
45
Africa
45
Philippines
36
Namibia
35
Senegal
30
Syria
29
Ukraine
29
Cambodia
27
Zimbabwe
26
Eastern Europe
26
Asia
25
Haiti
24
Guinea
22
South Sudan
22
Botswana
22
Lesotho
22
Mozambique
21
Indonesia
20
Congo, Democratic Republic of
19
Burkina Faso
17
Brazil
17
South–East Asia Region
16
USA
14
Eswatini/ Swaziland
14
Cameroon
13
Colombia
13
West and Central Africa
13
Russia
13
Pakistan
11
Thailand
11
Mali
10
Jordan
9
East and Southern Africa
9
Venezuela
9
Yemen
8
Middle East and North Africa
8
Tajikistan
8
China
7
Sri Lanka
7
Georgia
7
Vietnam
7
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
6
Afghanistan
6
Germany
6
Sudan
6
Benin
6
Albania
6
Laos
6
Angola
5
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
5
Paraguay
5
Iraq
4
Turkey
4
Peru
4
Chile
4
Southern Africa
4
North America
4
Guinea-Bissau
3
Somalia
3
Chad
3
Papua New Guinea
3
Argentina
3
North Macedonia
3
Bolivia
3
Western Pacific Region
3
Moldova
3
Portugal
3
Niger
2
Lebanon
2
Gambia
2
Malaysia
2
Central African Republic
2
Ecuador
2
Greece
2
Libya
2
Bhutan
2
Palestine
2
Armenia
2
Timor Leste/ East Timor
2
Kyrgyzstan
2
Kazakhstan
2
Japan
2
Spain
2
Saudi Arabia
1
Egypt
1
Ireland
1
Vanuatu
1
Serbia
1
Burundi
1
Honduras
1
El Salvador
1
Guatemala
1
Madagascar
1
Mexico
1
Fiji
1
Italy
1
Mongolia
1
Canada
1
Qatar
1
Lithuania
1
Uzbekistan
1
Gabon
1
Denmark
1
Belgium
1
France
1
Maldives
1
Mauritius
1
United Kingdom
1
Belarus
1
Latvia
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
1399
Clinical Guidelines
265
Women & Child Health
207
Key Resources
206
Public Health
192
Capacity Building
57
Pharmacy & Technologies
35
Annual Report MEDBOX
2
Toolboxes
HIV
314
Mental Health
275
TB
210
COVID-19
183
Disability
177
Planetary Health
161
AMR
141
Rapid Response
104
Caregiver
94
Ebola
92
NTDs
77
Conflict
69
Natural Hazards
65
Pharmacy
65
Global Health Education
55
Refugee
45
NCDs
38
Health Financing Toolbox
34
Specific Hazards
31
Zika
20
Cholera
13
Social Ethics
11
Polio
7
Typhoon
4
South Sudan
1
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 ... motivate individual and collective action by health care professionals to prevent damage to children’s health from exposure to air pollution.
Air pollution is a major environmental health threat. Exposure to fine particles in both the ambient environment and in the household causes about seven million premature deaths each year. Ambient air pollution alone imposes enormous costs on the global economy, amounting to more than US$ 5 trillion in total welfare losses in 2013.
This public health crisis is receiving more attention, but one critical aspect is often overlooked: how air pollution affects children in uniquely damaging ways. Recent data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) show that air pollution has a vast and terrible impact on child health and survival. Globally, 93% of all children live in environments with air pollution levels above the WHO guidelines (see the full report, Air pollution and child health: prescribing clean air. More than one in every four deaths of children under 5 years of age is directly or indirectly related to environmental risks. Both ambient air pollution and household air pollution contribute to respiratory tract infections that resulted in 543 000 deaths in children under the age of 5 years in 2016.
Pollution and health: a progress update
recommended
The Lancet Planetary Health Published:May 17, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00090-0
Every year pollution causes 9 million deaths—1 in every 6 deaths worldwide, according to a Lancet Commission on pollution ... health.
While the number of deaths caused by household air pollution and water pollution decreased from 2015 to 2019, overall deaths remain roughly the same because of a 7% increase in deaths caused by air pollution and toxic chemical pollution.
Buruli ulcer : management of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease : a manual for health care providers
recommended
This manual is addressed to health care providers dealing with Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer). The manual aims to achieve a better understanding of the disease, its clinical presentat...
Development assistance for health (DAH) is an important part of financing healthcare in low- and middle-income countries. We estimated the gross di...
Interagency Guidelines - This revised Interagency List of Essential Medicines for Reproductive Health presents
the current international consensus on rational selection ... essential reproductive health medicines. The list is intended to support decisions regarding the production, quality assurance, national procurement and reimbursement schemes of these medicines.
This brief summarizes the lessons learned across Europe on the redevelopment of contaminated sites as a part of urban planning and renewal. Specifi...
A new report by the world’s largest humanitarian network warns that the number of people needing humanitarian assistance every year as a result of climate-related disasters could double by 2050. I...
A Public Health EOC (PHEOC) serves as a hub for coordinating the preparation for, response to, and recovery from public health emergencies. The pre...
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 ... biomedical risk factors, rather than environmental risk factors such as air pollution. This article discusses the implications of such a focus. It then outlines the opportunities for those in public health and environmental science to work together across three key areas to address air pollution, NCDs and climate change: (a) acknowledging the shared drivers, including corporate determinants; (b) taking a ‘co-benefits’ approach to NCD prevention; and (c) expanding prevention research and evaluation methods through investing in systems thinking and intersectoral, cross-disciplinary collaborations.
ICF is WHO's framework for health and disability. It is the conceptual basis for the definition, measurement and policy formulations for ... and disability. It is a universal classification of disability and health for use in health and health related sectors. ICF therefore looks like a simple health classifiation, but it can be used for a number of purposes. The most important is as a planning and policy tool for decision-makers.
In 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) Member States adopted the revised International
Health Regulations (IHR) (2005). The Regulations provide a unique public ... framework in the
form of obligations and recommendations that enable countries to better prevent, prepare for and
respond to public health events and emergencies of potential international concern, including chemical events.
This policy brief has been developed in response to the contemporary challenge of antibiotic resistance (ABR). ABR poses a formidable threat to global health ... sustainable development. It is now increasingly recognized that the systematic neglect of cultural factors is one of the biggest obstacles to achieving better health outcomes and better standards of living worldwide. Using a cultural contexts of health approach, the policy brief explores the centrality of culture to the challenge of ABR. The brief examines how the prescription and use of antibacterial medicines, the transmission of resistance, and the regulation and funding of research are influenced by cultural, social and commercial, as well as biological and technological factors. The brief moves beyond the ready equation of culture with individual behaviours and demonstrates how culture serve as an enabler of health and provide new possibilities for change.
In 2015, 5.9 million children under age five died (1). The major causes of child deaths globally are pneumonia, prematurity, intrapartum-related complications, neonatal sepsis, congenital anomalies, diarrhoea, injuries ... malaria (2). Most of these diseases and conditions are at least partially caused by the environment. It was estimated in 2012 that 26% of childhood deaths and 25% of the total disease burden in children under five could be prevented through the reduction of environmental risks such as air pollution, unsafe water, sanitation and inadequate hygiene or chemicals.
Self-care interventions are among the most promising and exciting new approaches to improve health and well-being, both from a ... systems perspective and for people who use these interventions. The World Health Organization (WHO) uses the following working definition of self-care: Self-care is the ability of individuals, families and communities to promote health, prevent disease, maintain health, and cope with illness and disability with or without the support of a health- care provider
Background
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are one of the global leading causes of concern due to the rising prevalence and consequence ... mortality and disability with a heavy economic burden. The objective of the current study was to analyze the trend in CVD incidence, mortality, and mortality-to-incidence ratio (MIR) across the world over 28 years.
Methods
The age-standardized CVD mortality and incidence rates were retrieved from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2017 for both genders and different world super regions with available data every year during the period 1990–2017. Additionally, the Human Development Index was sourced from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) database for all countries at the same time interval. The marginal modeling approach was implemented to evaluate the mean trend of CVD incidence, mortality, and MIR for 195 countries and separately for developing and developed countries and also clarify the relationship between the indices and Human Development Index (HDI) from 1990 to 2017.
Results
The obtained estimates identified that the global mean trend of CVD incidence had an ascending trend until 1996 followed by a descending trend after this year. Nearly all of the countries experienced a significant declining mortality trend from 1990 to 2017. Likewise, the global mean MIR rate had a significant trivial decrement trend with a gentle slope of 0.004 over the time interval. As such, the reduction in incidence and mortality rates for developed countries was significantly faster than developing counterparts in the period 1990–2017 (p < 0.05). Nevertheless, the developing nations had a more rather shallow decrease in MIR compared to developed ones.
Conclusions
Generally, the findings of this study revealed that there was an overall downward trend in CVD incidence and mortality rates, while the survival rate of CVD patients was rather stable. These results send a satisfactory message that global effort for controlling the CVD burden was quite successful. Nonetheless, there is an urgent need for more efforts to improve the survival rate of patients and lower the burden of this disease in some areas with an increasing trend of either incidence or mortality.
The message contained in this publication is clear: countries need a
public health system that can respond to the deliberate release of
chemical and...
This report makes the case for a major new initiative—to rapidly recruit, train and deploy 2 million community health workers in Africa. Drawing on a vast body ... evidence and substantial regional experience, the report shows how community health workers save lives and improve quality of life and how investments in community health workers effectively harness the demographic dividend, reduce gender inequality and accelerate economic growth and development. Indeed, the benefits of community health workers stretch from one end of the Agenda for Sustainable Development to the other.
Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2021;45:e74.
Some characteristics of patients and healthcare providers influence treatment success in MDR-TB cases. Physicians’ ... nurses’ knowledge about MDR-TB must be improved, and follow-up of MDR-TB patients who are living with HIV and of those affiliated with the subsidized health insurance scheme in Colombia must be strengthened, as these patients have a lower likelihood of a successful treatment outcome.
Technical Note
Recently, the approach to hazardous events has undergone a considerable shift, away from reactive activities focused on managing and responding to events and towards a more proactive...
The World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO), in accordance with recommendations from various WHO committees, has developed three flagship initiatives to support Member States in the African region to prepare for, detect ... respond to public health emergencies. They are the result of extensive consultations with more than 30 African government ministers, technical actors, and partners across the continent as well as regional institutions such as the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), whose contributions have shaped the priority activities. This report provides the fourth quarterly summary of progress in implementing the flagship initiatives.
