Filter
1367
Text search:
chemical
safety
Featured
Recommendations
178
New Publications
355
Language
Document type
No document type
626
Guidelines
271
Studies & Reports
212
Manuals
136
Strategic & Response Plan
58
Training Material
25
Fact sheets
23
Resource Platforms
6
Brochures
5
Situation Updates
5
Countries / Regions
India
66
Kenya
51
Global
48
Ethiopia
34
South Africa
27
Ghana
26
Sierra Leone
24
Nigeria
23
Syria
22
Tanzania
21
Liberia
20
Uganda
20
Nepal
20
Western and Central Europe
19
Bangladesh
18
Philippines
17
Ukraine
17
Latin America and the Carribbean
16
Namibia
15
Zimbabwe
14
Africa
14
Myanmar / Burma
13
Rwanda
10
USA
8
Eswatini/ Swaziland
8
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
8
Zambia
7
Malawi
7
Indonesia
6
Russia
6
Iraq
5
Western Pacific Region
5
Guinea
4
Senegal
4
Afghanistan
4
Germany
4
Brazil
4
Lesotho
4
Yemen
4
South–East Asia Region
4
Eastern Europe
4
Burkina Faso
3
Cameroon
3
Thailand
3
Mozambique
3
Sudan
3
Botswana
3
Madagascar
3
Middle East and North Africa
3
Asia
3
Iran
3
Congo, Democratic Republic of
2
Mali
2
Niger
2
Haiti
2
Somalia
2
Pakistan
2
South Sudan
2
Jordan
2
Lebanon
2
Cambodia
2
Sri Lanka
2
Laos
2
Timor Leste/ East Timor
2
Vietnam
2
Saudi Arabia
1
Egypt
1
Chad
1
Gambia
1
China
1
Mauritania
1
Singapore
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Central African Republic
1
Argentina
1
Peru
1
North Macedonia
1
Croatia
1
Colombia
1
El Salvador
1
Libya
1
West and Central Africa
1
Paraguay
1
Bhutan
1
Palestine
1
Djibouti
1
Canada
1
Qatar
1
Lithuania
1
Moldova
1
Australia
1
Gabon
1
Maldives
1
United Kingdom
1
Spain
1
Latvia
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
477
Key Resources
194
Clinical Guidelines
93
Public Health
71
Pharmacy & Technologies
50
Women & Child Health
31
Capacity Building
30
Toolboxes
COVID-19
96
Planetary Health
96
Pharmacy
94
AMR
79
Mental Health
74
Conflict
59
Rapid Response
55
Specific Hazards
53
NTDs
52
Caregiver
46
Ebola & Marburg
40
Natural Hazards
40
2.0 Rapid Response
34
TB
30
Malaria
26
HIV
22
Global Health Education
18
NCDs
17
Refugee
14
Cholera
13
Zika
10
Disability
5
Health Financing Toolbox
5
Polio
2
Typhoon
1
Social Ethics
1
This document provides the specifications for major pesticide application equipment used for control of vectors of diseases. The specification guidelines contained herein are intended to assist national authorities and other public health users in selecting equipment of assured quality for applicati
...
Policy brief, 24 July 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected older people disproportionately, especially those living in long-term care facilities. In many countries, evidence shows that more than 40% of COVID-19 related deaths have been linked to long-term care facilities, with figures being as h
...
By almost any measure, human health is better now than at any time in history. Life expectancy has soared from 47 years in 1950–1955, to 69 years in 2005–2010, and death rates in children younger than 5 years of age have decreased substantially, from 214 per thousand live births in 1950–1955,
...
Despite the continuing war in Ukraine, the Government is preparing for the country’s recovery and reconstruction. Given the magnitude of the attacks on the health infrastructure and consequent disruption to health system functioning, reconstruction of the health system is integral to the country
...
The Strategy aims to protect and improve the well-being
of society and of the individual, to protect and promote
public health, to offer a high level of security and well-being
for the general public and to increase health literacy. The
Strategy takes an evidence-based, integrated, balanced and
...
The United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities (UNCLSC, 2012) defined 13 health products to end preventable deaths of woman and children. One of those 13 products is the neonatal resuscitator, is indispensable medical device to save newborns from asphyxia at birth. For the efficient use of
...
This publication provides a practical tool to support countries in strengthening surveillance of WASH in schools. The findings will inform the development of supportive regulations and improvement planning to safeguard children’s health, well-being, dignity and cognitive performance. The tool also
...
The compendium provides guidance on low-cost handwashing facilities that can be widely used in low and middle-income countries. We hope that this can be shared extensively as governments and agencies tackle the crisis in low and middle-income countries where handwashing facilities are urgently neede
...
Core Knowledge for Emergency Preparedness and Response
This National Action Plan addresses actions needed to be taken in order to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the country. It is obligatory to raise awareness of antimicrobial resistance and promote behavioral change through public communication
programmes that targets human, animal and plant
...
Updated guidance. The guidance provides useful information to staff working in prisons, as well as to health and prison authorities, explaining how to prevent and address a potential outbreak of COVID-19. In addition, it aims to protect the health and well-being of all those who live and work in, an
...
Recommendations for health care professionals – the experience from Latvia
The WHO Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches document is part of the WHO Guidance and technical packages on community mental health services set of publications. It provides a detailed description of person-centred and human rights-based
...
Atlas of African Health Statistics 2022: Health situation analysis of the WHO African Region
Since 2019, we have been implementing Phase 2 of the regional Transformation Agenda, which informs and aligns with the global WHO Transformation, to ensure WHO is accountable, driven by re- sults and provid
...
The WHO continuously reviews available data on SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. For this version, the global epidemiological
situation of the COVID-19 pandemic as of 21 January 2022 – at a time when the Omicron VOC had been identified in 171
countries across all six WHO Regions and was rapidly re
...
Rabies has an enormous impact on both agriculture and conservation biology, but its greatest burden is undeniably on public health. As such, routine methods for rapid risk assessment after human exposures to rabies as well as applications for laboratory-based surveillance, production of biologicals
...
Children without access to safe water are more likely to die in infancy -- and throughout childhood -- from diseases caused by
water-borne bacteria, to which their small bodies are more vulnerable.
Pandemic Influenza Risk Management
recommended
A WHO guide to inform & harmonize national & international pandemic preparedness and response
The main updates from the 2013 interim guidance are:
Alignment with other relevant United Nations policies for crisis and emergency management, and
Inclusion of the significant development in re
...
