Filter
9995
Filtered Results: 9995
Text search:
challenges
Featured
Recommendations
731
New Publications
2418
Language
Document type
No document type
5247
Studies & Reports
2113
Guidelines
1047
Manuals
509
Strategic & Response Plan
391
Fact sheets
200
Training Material
189
Situation Updates
127
Infographics
55
Resource Platforms
49
Online Courses
27
Brochures
25
Videos
10
App
5
Dashboards/Maps
1
Countries / Regions
Global
527
India
326
Kenya
283
South Africa
206
Ethiopia
196
Sierra Leone
189
Myanmar / Burma
185
Western and Central Europe
183
Uganda
183
Nigeria
172
Liberia
170
Nepal
163
Syria
156
Africa
146
Latin America and the Carribbean
146
Malawi
142
Zambia
141
Bangladesh
138
Rwanda
132
Tanzania
129
Ukraine
121
Ghana
95
Namibia
95
Congo, Democratic Republic of
91
South Sudan
84
Philippines
70
Eastern Europe
69
South–East Asia Region
68
Mozambique
66
Lesotho
63
Asia
63
Brazil
62
Yemen
61
Zimbabwe
60
Guinea
60
Haiti
56
Senegal
54
East and Southern Africa
54
Indonesia
52
West and Central Africa
51
Cambodia
50
Germany
49
Russia
48
Venezuela
47
Middle East and North Africa
44
Botswana
42
Cameroon
41
Colombia
40
Afghanistan
35
Burkina Faso
34
Pakistan
34
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
33
Central African Republic
31
Lebanon
30
Somalia
28
Benin
27
Jordan
27
Thailand
23
China
23
Vietnam
23
Sudan
23
Eswatini/ Swaziland
20
Mali
19
Iraq
18
Peru
17
Western Pacific Region
17
Moldova
17
Sri Lanka
17
Tajikistan
15
Chile
15
Albania
13
Laos
13
USA
13
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
13
North America
12
Ecuador
12
Turkey
11
Palestine
11
Angola
11
Georgia
10
Iran
9
Paraguay
9
Argentina
9
Greece
9
Madagascar
9
Burundi
8
Southern Africa
8
Papua New Guinea
8
Chad
8
North Macedonia
7
Niger
7
Romania
7
Timor Leste/ East Timor
6
Gambia
6
Togo
6
Kazakhstan
6
Kyrgyzstan
6
Jamaica
6
United Kingdom
6
Spain
6
Libya
6
Mexico
5
Guinea-Bissau
5
Hungary
5
Portugal
5
Bolivia
5
Egypt
5
Poland
5
El Salvador
4
Canada
4
Malaysia
4
Saudi Arabia
4
Turkmenistan
4
Japan
4
Tunisia
4
Switzerland
3
Estonia
3
Italy
3
Croatia
3
Mauritius
3
Guyana
3
Djibouti
3
Honduras
3
Bhutan
3
Guatemala
3
Serbia
2
Fiji
2
Congo-Brazzaville
2
Uzbekistan
2
Morocco
2
Mongolia
2
Bulgaria
2
Armenia
2
France
2
Belarus
2
Israel
2
Nicaragua
2
Slovakia
2
North Korea
1
Austria
1
Vanuatu
1
Qatar
1
Dominican Republic
1
Lithuania
1
Denmark
1
Maldives
1
Norway
1
South Korea
1
Algeria
1
Azerbaijan
1
French Guyana
1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1
Barbados
1
Belize
1
Costa Rica
1
Panama
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
3535
Key Resources
590
Clinical Guidelines
549
Public Health
530
Women & Child Health
451
Capacity Building
220
Pharmacy & Technologies
68
Annual Report MEDBOX
3
Toolboxes
COVID-19
915
Mental Health
780
HIV
761
TB
507
Planetary Health
449
Disability
416
Conflict
356
NTDs
296
AMR
269
Ebola & Marburg
268
Caregiver
268
Refugee
228
NCDs
216
Global Health Education
205
Rapid Response
203
Health Financing Toolbox
170
Natural Hazards
137
Malaria
122
Pharmacy
110
Social Ethics
87
Cholera
57
Polio
53
Zika
51
Specific Hazards
50
2.0 Rapid Response
31
Typhoon
6
South Sudan
1
The Government of India is embarking on a mammoth task to prevent COVID-19 spread among communities. The Rapid Evidence Synthesis team received a request to support the planning and development of resources for ensuring preparedness of FLHWs for COVID-19 . The rapid evidence synthesis was conducted ...
Online learning for clinical management staff of respiratory diphtheria in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
In December 2017, the WHO Health Emergencies Programme launched an online learning for clinical staff on respiratory diphtheria through the OpenWHO.org platform. The 4-hour course targets clinicians ...
This guidelines is aimed at humanitarian and human rights actors engaged in protection work, and is intended to act as an easy reference to the minimum standards to be met and the recommended guidelines to be followed in such work.
The 45 standards and 15 guidelines are reproduced in full, together...
WHO published the first COVID-19 Strategic Response and Preparedness Plan (SPRP) on 3 February, 2020. This report highlights the main points of progress that were made up to 30 June 2020 under the three objectives outlined in the SPRP: scaling up international coordination and support; scaling up co...
Community health nurses have the potential to make significant contributions to meet the health care needs of various population groups in a variety of community settings. In order to assess the extent to which CHNs are achieving this potential, WHO conducted a study between 2010 and 2014 that exami...
The humanitarian-development-peace nexus (HDPNX) is a new way of working that offers a framework for coherent joined-up planning and implementation of shared priorities between humanitarian development and peacebuilding actors in emergency settings. To advance the HDPNx in a given country a sh...
This global progress report attempts to lay the groundwork for the kind of accelerated action needed. Section 1 presents key data, trends and developments in women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and well-being. That is followed in Section 2 by a deeper dive into the impact of the COVID-...
The WHO estimates that 19 million children aged 15 years or younger are visually impaired. Of these, 1.4 million are irreversibly blind and need visual rehabilitation interventions for full psychological and personal development. The remainder have visual problems that could be prevented or treated....
Asthma is a common breathing condition. Chances are that at least one in every fifth person will have it. People with asthma might have a cough, or wheeze and a feeling of tightness in their chests. A group of researchers from the United Kingdom teamed up with seven African countries to learn about ...
Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease among school-going adolescents worldwide. However, the burden of severe asthma is highest in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study aimed to explore teachers’ perceptions of asthma care across six African countries. We conducted focus group discussions...
As we approach World Asthma Day on the May 2, 2023, we reflect on the theme “ Asthma Care for All”. Prevalence of Asthma is increasing amongst children, adolescents and adults. Under-diagnosis, underutilization of inhaled corticosteroids, inaccessibility of treatment, and unaffordability of medi...
The report provides an update on the cholera outbreak in Haiti as of January and February 2024. A total of 79,411 suspected cases have been reported, with 4,608 confirmed cases and 1,172 deaths across all 10 departments. The most affected regions include Ouest, Centre, Artibonite, and Nord, with chi...
Frontline health workers (FHWs) provide services directly to communities where they are most needed, especially in remote and rural areas. Many are community health workers and midwives, though they can also include local emergency responders/paramedics, pharmacists, nurses, and doctors who serve in...
This country cooperation strategy (CCS) outlines how the World Health Organization (WHO) will work with the Lao People’s Democratic Republic over the next five years (2024–2028), supporting the implementation of the five-year health sector development plans and the Health Sector Reform Strategy ...
DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.102891Little progress has been made since the 1960s and 19. 70s to widen the therapeutic arsenal against Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative pathogen of Chagas disease, which remains a frustrating and perplexing infectious disease. This chapter focuses on the strategic and opera...
This report’s central premise is that diagnostics and therapeutics, and associated test to treat strategies, are fundamental components of the pandemic response, both for COVID-19 and for future health threats. Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, this report reflects on the main challenges and k...
Nearly 800 women die every day from preventable maternal causes, and in 2022 alone, an estimated 2.3 million newborns died. For every maternal death, countless more women endure life-altering injuries, infections, and disabilities related to childbirth.
Maternal deaths are concentrated in the poo...
The Virtual cGMP Training Marathon for Vaccine Manufacturing: Principles into Practice took place from 12 Sep to 10 Oct 2023 to continue to provide manufacturers & regulators with a comprehensive array of topics to build understanding of current WHO & international GMP standards, technological advan...
The region of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has high levels of income inequality and urbanization. This leaves a large percentage of the population exposed and vulnerable to infectious disease outbreaks (1). The COVID-19 outbreak occurred suddenly, within a complex economic, social and polit...
Antimicrobial resistance has become a serious public health threat for effective treatment of an ever increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi. When infections can no longer be treated by first-line antibiotics, other antibiotics must be used, which are both mo...
