(actualizado en diciembre de 2014).
This manual aims to provide practical guidance to field workers in order to maximise the nutritional impact of food security & livelihoods (FSL) interventions. This requires the systematic use of a ‘nutrition lens’ at each step of the project cycle and a close collaboration between sectors.
Este documento apresenta uma orientação provisória aos Estados Membros para uma rápida investigação de casos suspeitos de COVID-19 após um alerta ou sinal. Tem como propósito ser utilizada por autoridades de saúde locais, regionais ou nacionais como considerações para a investigação de ...casos de COVID-19. Não deve ser considerada como um guia abrangente para investigação do surto. Há orientações detalhadas disponíveis para a investigação de surto de outros patógenos respiratórios, incluindo o MERS-CoV e influenza. Maiores informações sobre a investigação de surto para a COVID-19 podem ser encontradas no OpenWHO website.Essa orientação pode ser implementada em diferentes países com vários recursos e padrões epidemiológicos e deve ser adaptada da forma mais adequada. Este documento tem como objetivo descrever os componentes específicos necessários para uma investigação. Ela é elaborada com base no conhecimento sobre a epidemia da COVID-19 e considerações semelhantes para outros patógenos respiratórios, incluindo o vírus MERS-CoV e influenza. A OMS continuará atualizando essas recomendações à medida que surgirem mais informações.
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District Level M & E Training and Reference Material for Primary Health Care Programmes
A systematic review informing a radical transformation of health workforce development
This guideline covers care and management for adults (aged 18 and over) with type 2 diabetes. It focuses on patient education, dietary advice, managing cardiovascular risk, managing blood glucose levels, and identifying and managing long-term complications.
In order to help Member States understand what commercial foods for infants and young children are currently on the market, and to support implementation of the Guidance on ending inappropriate promotion of foods for infants and young children at the European level, the WHO Regional Office for Europ...e developed a methodology for identifying commercial baby foods available in retail settings and collecting data on their nutritional content, as well as various aspects of their packaging, labelling and promotion.
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The 2020 recommendations for the programmatic management of TB preventive treatment are the first to be released under the rubric of WHO consolidated TB guidelines (Module 1 – Prevention). The WHO consolidated TB guidelines will gradually group all TB recommendations and will be complemented by ma...tching modules of a consolidated operational handbook. [1] The handbook will provide practical advice on how to put in place the recommendations at the scale needed to achieve national and global impact. The first handbook module in the series will be on the programmatic management of TB preventive treatment and will accompany the 2020 guidelines.
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This guideline provides updated, evidence-informed guidance on the percentage of total fat in the diet to reduce the risk of unhealthy weight gain.
This guideline is intended for a wide audience involved in the development, design and implementation of policies and programmes in nutrition and pub...lic health. This guideline includes a recommended level of total fat intake which can be used by policy-makers and programme managers to address various aspects of dietary fat in their populations through a range of policy actions and public health interventions.
The guidance in this guideline replaces previous WHO guidance on total fat intake, including that from the 1989 WHO Study Group on Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases and the 2002 Joint WHO/FAO Expert Consultation on Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases. The guidance in this guideline should be considered in the context of that from other WHO guidelines on healthy diets.
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The Lancet Infectious Disease Volume 25, Issue 2e77-e85February 2025