Filter
434
Filtered Results: 434
Text search:
African
Health
Observatory,
World
Health
Organization
(WHO)
Featured
Recommendations
29
New Publications
95
Language
Document type
No document type
195
Studies & Reports
152
Strategic & Response Plan
27
Guidelines
24
Manuals
20
Situation Updates
5
Resource Platforms
5
Fact sheets
4
Training Material
1
Online Courses
1
Countries / Regions
Global
47
Africa
18
Liberia
16
Rwanda
15
Western and Central Europe
11
Kenya
10
Latin America and the Carribbean
10
Ethiopia
10
Sierra Leone
9
Syria
9
Ghana
8
West and Central Africa
8
Middle East and North Africa
8
East and Southern Africa
8
Lesotho
7
Nigeria
7
Congo, Democratic Republic of
7
South–East Asia Region
7
South Africa
7
Uganda
7
Malawi
6
Asia
6
Botswana
6
Zambia
6
Guinea
5
India
5
Tanzania
4
Namibia
4
Thailand
3
Cameroon
3
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
3
Eastern Europe
3
Yemen
3
South Sudan
3
Pakistan
3
Nepal
2
Benin
2
Iran
2
Senegal
2
Burkina Faso
2
Zimbabwe
2
Morocco
2
Philippines
2
Mozambique
2
Haiti
2
Cambodia
2
Jordan
2
Saudi Arabia
2
Jamaica
2
Lebanon
2
Sudan
2
Greece
2
Central African Republic
2
Iraq
2
Madagascar
2
Eswatini/ Swaziland
2
Colombia
1
Mexico
1
Ukraine
1
Turkey
1
China
1
Albania
1
Niger
1
Afghanistan
1
Qatar
1
USA
1
Venezuela
1
Paraguay
1
Tunisia
1
Bangladesh
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Russia
1
Djibouti
1
Egypt
1
Palestine
1
Georgia
1
Mali
1
Libya
1
Indonesia
1
Somalia
1
Ecuador
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Studies & Reports
57
Policies
35
Statistics
33
Women & Child Health
23
Non-communicable Diseases
17
COVID-19
13
Community Health
12
Guidelines
9
Capacity Building
9
Disease Prevention & Control
9
Countries
8
Health Systems
8
Health System Strengthening
6
NTDs & Others
5
Global Health
5
Food Security & Nutrition
5
Digital Health
4
Cancer
4
Drugs & Medical Equipment
4
Other
4
WASH
4
Primary Health Care
4
Age & Elderly
4
Yaws
3
Child Health
3
Palliative Care
3
Sex. & Repr. Rights
3
Snakebites
3
Humanitarian Crisis
3
Palliative Care
3
Immunization
3
General Guidelines
3
Needs Assessment
3
Gynaecology & Obstetrics
3
Women & Child Health
3
Leishmaniasis
3
Reproductive Health
3
Dental & Eye Care
2
Sanitation
2
Disaster Preparedness
2
Gender
2
Humanitarian Aid
2
Community Health
2
Other Cancer diseases
2
Cancer Treatment & Resources
2
Public Health
2
Pediatrics
2
Vaccine-preventable Diseases
2
Child protection
2
Medical Devices & Equipment
2
Respiratory Infections
2
Maternal Health
2
Paediatrics
1
Hepatitis
1
Rabies
1
Family Planning
1
Diabetes
1
Vector Control
1
Monitoring & Evaluation
1
Cervical Cancer
1
Neglected Tropcial Diseases NTDs
1
Mental Health
1
Maternal & Child Health
1
Chagas
1
NCD
1
Cardiovascular Diseases
1
Diarrhoeal Disease/Cholera
1
Yellow Fever
1
Demograhic Health Surveys DHS
1
Policies & Guidelines HIV & TB
1
Mental Health
1
Diarrhoea
1
Protection & Security
1
HIV & STI
1
Malaria
1
Pharmacy & Technologies
1
TB
1
Toolboxes
Climate & Health
11
Global Impact: Socio-economic, health services, TB & HIV
9
General Studies & Reports
8
Substance Use Disorders & Addiction
8
Universal Health Coverage & Primary Health Care
8
Sustainable Development Goals
7
Country specific documents
7
Climate Change General
6
Assessment & Response
6
Assessment & Studies
5
Clean air
5
Urban health
5
Studies & Reports
5
Overview, Studies & Reports
5
General Information
5
Studies & Reports
5
Surveillance
4
Substance Use Disorders, Others
4
Public Health
4
Planetary Health
4
General Information & Methodology
4
Health Financing Toolbox
4
Neurological Disorders
4
Self-harm & Suicide
4
Reports & Studies
4
Urban Health
4
Alcohol
3
General Reports
3
Country specific
3
Human Rights
3
Studies
3
Covid-19 & the One Health Approach
3
Reports
3
General
3
WASH Water Sanitation & Hygiene
3
Health Impact & Climate Change
3
Leishmaniasis
3
Prevention & Control
3
Official Development Assistance
3
Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia
3
TB & Prisoners
3
Latin America & the Carribean
3
HIV service delivery
3
Lobby and Advocacy
3
Global Health Financing
3
Food & Nutrition
3
War & Conflict
2
Meningitis Prevention & Control
2
Europe
2
Dental Health
2
Key Resources
2
Policies & Programmes
2
Assessment & Response
2
Curricula & Core Competencies
2
Health & Refugee
2
Reports
2
Prevention & Preparedness
2
Universal Health Coverage UHC and 90-90-90 Strategy
2
General
2
PPE Personel Protective Equipment
2
Gender Aspects
2
COVID-19
2
Infection Control & Prevention (IPC)
2
Fair Allocation & Ethical Aspects
2
Health Promotion
2
One Health
2
Agriculture incl. animal husbandry
2
Disaster, Migration and Conflict
2
Health Care Systems
2
Zoonoses
2
Non-communicable Diseases NCD
2
Strategies & Roadmaps
2
Statistics & Facts
2
Studies & Reports
2
Domestic Resource Mobilization
2
Prevention & Strategies
2
Statistics & Facts
2
Studies & Reports
2
Prevention & Strategies
2
Air Pollution
2
Children's Rights
2
Community Worker
2
Disease Prevention & Control
2
Research & Access
2
International
2
Anxiety Disorders
2
Overview & Statistics
2
Planetary Health
2
Eastern and Southern Africa
2
Preparedness & Prevention
2
Disability Rights & Convention
1
Drugs
1
Public Health
1
Cocaine
1
Global Mental Health
1
Children with Disabilities
1
HIV testing & services
1
Training
1
Clinical Aspects, Treatment & Prevention
1
Treatment & Prevention
1
Vaccines & Immunization
1
Yellow Fever
1
Clinical Aspects
1
Preparedness, Response & Risk Communication
1
Studies & Reports
1
Adults
1
Natural Disasters
1
Epidemiology & Sitreps
1
Children & Adolescents
1
Introduction to Global Health
1
Human Rights, Stigma & Discrimination
1
Context, Facts & Travel Advice
1
Social Mobilisation
1
Policies
1
General Mental Health Guidelines
1
Diverse Chemical Substances
1
Africa
1
HIV
1
Children/Adolescents Mental Disorders
1
Latin America
1
Preparedness, Response & Risk Communication
1
Health Equity & Equality
1
Training
1
Mental Health Studies & Reports
1
Epilepsy
1
International
1
Clinical Guidelines
1
Situation Reports & Updates
1
Supporting tools
1
Research & Development
1
Faith-based Organizations
1
Country Specific
1
Human Rights
1
Child Protection
1
Food and Nutrition
1
Child Protection
1
HIV and COVID-19
1
RCCE Guides & Manuals
1
Access & Strategy
1
Psychosocial Support
1
Preparedness, Response & Risk Communication
1
TB/COVID-19
1
Structural Violence
1
Handbooks & Manuals
1
Self-care
1
Primary Care
1
Studies & Reports
1
Palliative Care
1
Online Resources
1
Biodiversity shift
1
Agriculture
1
Overview & reports
1
Green & healthy living
1
Essential Medicines
1
Falsified & Substandard
1
Quality Assurance
1
Strategies
1
HIV &TB
1
Pediatrics
1
Women & Maternal Health
1
Cancer
1
Guiding documents and principles
1
General documents One Health
1
Epilepsy
1
Pharmacovigilance
1
Mental Disorders
1
Capacity Building
1
Ukraine
1
Environment
1
Public Health
1
Health Consequences
1
Infectious Diseases
1
Education Principles
1
Heat
1
Humanitarian Aid Guidelines
1
Global Impact of war
1
NTDs
1
Chagas
1
Capacity Building & Resources
1
Clinical Aspects & Diagnostics
1
Information & Education Material (IEC)
1
Studies & Reports
1
NTDs General
1
Vector control
1
Onchocerciasis
1
Snakebite envenoming
1
Taeniasis/Cysticercosis
1
Yaws & other Endemic Treponematoses
1
Access to treatment and laboratory
1
Health Worker
1
Education
1
General Information & Methodology
1
Prevention & Strategies
1
Gynaecological Cancers
1
Tobacco Consumption
1
Women
1
Prevention & Strategies
1
Global Overview
1
Asia and Pacific
1
Drug resistant TB
1
others
1
Situation Reports & Updates
1
Protection
1
Assessment & Response
1
Human Rights & the Right to Health
1
Asia
1
Assessment & Response
1
Urbanization
1
Disaster Preparedness & Prevention
1
Assessment
1
TB/HIV Coinfection
1
Global Health Institutions and Stakeholders
1
WASH
1
AmR (Region of Americas)
1
WASH
1
Antiretroviral Treatment ART
1
War, Conflict Areas & Refugees
1
Reports & Studies Children HIV
1
Key Resources
1
Planetary Health
1
Eastern Europe & Central Asia
1
Depression
1
Public Health
1
Neurological disorders, Others
1
Communication & Training
1
Global Burden of Disease
1
The country profiles incorporate facts indicating the national status of medical devices in areas such as: medical device policies, regulations, incorporation, lists, inventories, nomenclature, health technology assessment, management, and biomedical engineering resources. This publication is int...
Primary care - Putting people first: This chapter describes how primary care brings promotion and prevention, cure and care together in a safe, effective and socially productive way at the interface between the population and the health system.
The WHO Guidelines on risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia provide evidence-based recommendations on lifestyle behaviours and interventions to delay or prevent cognitive decline and dementia. These WHO Guidelines are an important tool for health care providers as well as governments, pol...
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is an evidence-based treaty that reaffirms the right of all people to the highest standard of health and was developed in response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic. Member States of the WHO South-East Asia Region have made...
The new WHO recommendations for the treatment of isoniazid-resistant, rifampicin-susceptible TB are based upon a review of evidence from patients treated with such regimens by a Guideline Development Group in conformity with WHO requirements for evidence-based policies.
The pre-clinical pipeline shows more innovation and diversity, with 252 agents being developed to treat WHO priority pathogens.
However, these products are in the very early stages of development and still need to be proven effective and safe. The optimistic scenario, the report indicates, is for...
Progress in reducing tobacco use is a key indicator for measuring countries’ efforts to implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control – target 3.a under the Sustainable Development Goals agenda. Countries have adopted this indicator to report progress also towards the tobacco reducti...
Ramped-up cancer services could save 7 million lives over the next decade—and addressing huge service gaps between rich and poor countries is key to success, according to this report.
In 2019, over 90% of high-income countries reported that comprehensive cancer treatment services were available...
WHO Living guideline: Drugs to prevent COVID-19
recommended
Interim guidance 2 march 2021
Current use of drugs to prevent COVID-19 is variable, reflecting large-scale uncertainty. Numerous randomized trials of many different drugs are underway to inform practice. This first version of the Drugs to prevent COVID-19: A WHO living guideline contains new inform...
This publication is based on the list of clinical interventions selected from clinical guidelines on prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, palliative care, monitoring and end of life care. This publication addresses medical devices for six types of cancer: breast, cervical, colorectal, leukem...
The road map sets global targets and milestones to prevent, control, eliminate or eradicate 20 diseases and disease groups as well as cross-cutting targets aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. Three foundational pillars will support global efforts to achieve the targets: accelerate progra...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the global community of countries, partners, donors, technical experts, scientists and field implementation teams continue to work towards the ultimate goal of a world free of the burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). This work is described in the NTD ...
Plus de 700 000 personnes perdent la vie par suicide chaque année. La réduction d’un tiers du taux mondial de mortalité par suicide d’ici à 2030 est à la fois un indicateur et une cible (la seule pour la santé mentale) dans les objectifs de développement durable des Nations Unies et dans ...
В дорожной карте по борьбе с забытыми тропическими болезнями на 2021–2030 гг. («дорожная карта») определены глобальные цели и основные этапы в отношении борьбы с 20 бол...
WHO’s total revenue in 2020 was US$ 4299 million and total expenses were US$ 3561 million, resulting in a surplus of US$ 824 million, which includes finance revenue (e.g. interest and investment income) of US$ 86 million, representing increases of 38% and 15% in revenue and expenses respectively. ...
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – chief among them, cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases – along with mental health, cause nearly three quarters of deaths in the world. Their drivers are social, environmental, commercial and geneti...
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – chief among them, cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases – along with mental health, cause nearly three quarters of deaths in the world. Their drivers are social, environmental, commercial and geneti...
