Filter
2195
Filtered Results: 2195
Text search:
disability
prevalence
Featured
Recommendations
179
New Publications
538
Language
Document type
No document type
1404
Studies & Reports
394
Guidelines
173
Strategic & Response Plan
87
Manuals
86
Fact sheets
20
Training Material
12
Situation Updates
10
Infographics
4
Resource Platforms
3
Brochures
1
Online Courses
1
Countries / Regions
Global
116
India
112
Kenya
68
Ethiopia
51
Uganda
49
Western and Central Europe
48
South Africa
46
Malawi
44
Latin America and the Carribbean
42
Zambia
40
Myanmar / Burma
40
Nepal
39
Bangladesh
35
Sierra Leone
30
Rwanda
28
Nigeria
27
Ukraine
27
Liberia
25
Lesotho
25
Africa
25
Ghana
24
Namibia
23
Indonesia
22
Tanzania
21
Cambodia
20
Philippines
19
Syria
19
South–East Asia Region
19
Eastern Europe
18
Zimbabwe
16
Asia
15
Mozambique
14
South Sudan
12
Botswana
12
Congo, Democratic Republic of
9
Cameroon
9
Eswatini/ Swaziland
8
Russia
8
Pakistan
7
Thailand
7
Sudan
7
Yemen
7
Jordan
6
Afghanistan
6
Lebanon
6
Brazil
6
Paraguay
6
Venezuela
6
Senegal
5
Haiti
5
Iraq
5
East and Southern Africa
5
West and Central Africa
5
Vietnam
5
North America
5
Burkina Faso
4
Somalia
4
China
4
Peru
4
Colombia
4
Sri Lanka
4
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
4
Moldova
4
USA
3
Germany
3
Egypt
3
Middle East and North Africa
3
Western Pacific Region
3
Iran
3
United Kingdom
3
Guinea
2
Turkey
2
Singapore
2
Benin
2
Mexico
2
Other region
2
Albania
2
Tajikistan
2
Estonia
2
Romania
2
Kyrgyzstan
2
Jamaica
2
Portugal
2
Spain
2
Azerbaijan
2
Mali
1
Saudi Arabia
1
Chad
1
Malaysia
1
Ireland
1
Argentina
1
North Macedonia
1
Serbia
1
Hungary
1
Croatia
1
Burundi
1
Honduras
1
Greece
1
Libya
1
Angola
1
Guatemala
1
Poland
1
Palestine
1
Djibouti
1
Armenia
1
Southern Africa
1
Laos
1
Timor Leste/ East Timor
1
Qatar
1
Slovakia
1
Kazakhstan
1
Turkmenistan
1
Japan
1
Belgium
1
Mauritius
1
Belarus
1
Israel
1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1
Latvia
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
852
Public Health
191
Clinical Guidelines
163
Women & Child Health
128
Key Resources
61
Capacity Building
23
Pharmacy & Technologies
3
Toolboxes
Mental Health
351
Disability
275
HIV
106
NTDs
96
NCDs
89
COVID-19
82
TB
75
Conflict
57
Planetary Health
52
Global Health Education
45
Caregiver
29
AMR
25
Refugee
22
Rapid Response
17
Natural Hazards
15
Health Financing Toolbox
13
Ebola
9
Pharmacy
9
Zika
5
Polio
2
Social Ethics
2
Cholera
1
Specific Hazards
1
To provide information on trends on official development assistance (ODA) disbursement patterns for
reproductive health activities in 18 conflict-affected countries
Global progress against cardiovascular disease (CVD) is flatlining.
Though rates of CVD deaths globally have fallen in the last three
decades, this trend has begun to stall and, without concerted
efforts, is at risk of reversing.
Worldwide, there are about 17 million deaths due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) each year and at least two or three times as many non-fatal events. Raised cholesterol greatly increases the risks of stroke and heart disease, causing a large
health burden across the world. The World Health Organizat...
Buruli ulcer (BU) is a bacterial skin infection that is caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans and mainly affects people who reside in the rural areas of Africa and in suburban and beach resort communities in Australia.
Objective: To conduct a landscape assessment of public knowledge of cardiovascular disease risk factors and acute myocardial infarction symptoms, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) awareness and training in three underserved communities in Brazil.
Metho...
Approximately 80% of the 463 million adults worldwide with diabetes live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). A major obstacle to designing evidence-based policies to improve diabetes outcomes in LMICs is the scarce availability of nationally representative data on the current patterns...
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 ...
Since the discovery of insulin nearly 100 years ago, advances in diabetes treatments and therapies have transformed the lives of people
with diabetes (PwD), notably reducing the daily burden of its management.
Newer technologies, including those driven by artificial intelligence, have the potentia...
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...
The Kenya Health Policy 2014-2030 aims at attaining the highest possible standard of health in a manner responsive to the health needs of our population. One of the major policy directions towards realizing the intentions of this policy is to halt and reverse the
rising burden of non-communicable d...
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...
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...
The document is a summary report by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, focusing on a capacity-building workshop held in Abu Dhabi in 2019. The workshop addressed the management and care of substance use disorders, aiming to improve technical and manage...
The workshop aimed to support countries in the prioritization and acceleration of NCD prevention and management with a specific focus on accelerating the prevention and control of hypertension and diabetes, identifying the most impactful NCD interventions within their context, closing the gaps in ca...
This global status report on prevention and control of NCDs (2014), is framed around the nine voluntary global targets. The report provides data on the current situation, identifying bottlenecks as well as opportunities and priority actions for attaining the targets. The 2010 baseline estimates on N...
The Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases 2013-2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO) outlines a comprehensive strategy to address the global rise in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases,...
This report is one of the first major products of the newly established Precision Public Health Metrics unit of the UCN cluster of the WHO Regional Office for Africa. The report presents national trends in communicable and non-communicable disease burden and control in the WHO African region. It tra...
The article discusses the significant impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as a global health issue, with cigarette smoking as the main risk factor. However, in developing countries, the causes of COPD are often multifactorial, involving environmental tobacco smoke, biomass fuel sm...
Over the past 20 years, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) has regularly published and annually updated a global strategy for asthma management and prevention that has formed the basis for many national guidelines. However, uptake of existing guidelines is poor. A major revision of the GINA r...
