Filter
12500
Filtered Results: 12500
Text search:
social
health
Featured
Recommendations
968
New Publications
2963
Language
Document type
No document type
6662
Studies & Reports
2255
Guidelines
1459
Manuals
640
Strategic & Response Plan
488
Fact sheets
371
Training Material
230
Situation Updates
169
Infographics
75
Brochures
56
Resource Platforms
55
Online Courses
22
Videos
13
App
4
Dashboards/Maps
1
Countries / Regions
Global
532
India
443
Kenya
300
Latin America and the Carribbean
261
Liberia
231
Ethiopia
230
South Africa
226
Sierra Leone
216
Nepal
208
Western and Central Europe
205
Uganda
190
Myanmar / Burma
185
Nigeria
175
Indonesia
169
Tanzania
166
Bangladesh
165
Rwanda
158
Senegal
156
Congo, Democratic Republic of
155
Syria
154
Africa
153
Malawi
151
Zambia
150
Namibia
136
Ukraine
133
Brazil
132
Mozambique
108
Ghana
107
Germany
106
Burkina Faso
97
Eastern Europe
92
Philippines
89
South Sudan
89
Venezuela
87
Colombia
86
Paraguay
85
Guinea
81
West and Central Africa
79
Russia
79
Haiti
77
Lesotho
74
Cambodia
72
South–East Asia Region
71
Zimbabwe
68
Benin
67
Yemen
65
Asia
63
Middle East and North Africa
61
East and Southern Africa
60
Cameroon
58
Argentina
50
Peru
45
Botswana
44
Central African Republic
40
Madagascar
40
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
38
Pakistan
36
Afghanistan
35
Lebanon
34
Chile
33
Mali
33
Angola
31
Jordan
29
Vietnam
27
Sudan
27
Ecuador
27
Bolivia
26
Eswatini/ Swaziland
26
Somalia
24
Thailand
23
Tajikistan
21
Western Pacific Region
21
Niger
20
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
20
Iraq
20
China
19
USA
18
Togo
17
Moldova
17
Sri Lanka
16
Albania
15
Guinea-Bissau
15
Palestine
15
Laos
14
El Salvador
13
Georgia
13
Mexico
11
Turkey
11
Burundi
11
North America
11
Portugal
11
Spain
11
Iran
10
Greece
10
North Macedonia
9
Kyrgyzstan
9
United Kingdom
9
Egypt
9
Chad
9
Switzerland
8
Southern Africa
8
Romania
8
Timor Leste/ East Timor
7
Armenia
7
Jamaica
7
Papua New Guinea
7
Poland
7
Honduras
7
Libya
7
Guatemala
7
Kazakhstan
6
Malaysia
6
Italy
6
Hungary
6
Saudi Arabia
6
Serbia
5
Gambia
5
Turkmenistan
5
Japan
5
Tunisia
5
Belarus
5
Canada
4
Uzbekistan
4
Morocco
4
France
4
Nicaragua
4
Bhutan
4
Singapore
3
Estonia
3
Dominican Republic
3
Croatia
3
Mauritius
3
Bosnia and Herzegovina
3
Guyana
3
North Korea
2
Fiji
2
Congo-Brazzaville
2
Austria
2
Vanuatu
2
Mongolia
2
Qatar
2
Bulgaria
2
Mauritania
2
Lithuania
2
Ireland
2
Uruguay
2
Belgium
2
Azerbaijan
2
Israel
2
Djibouti
2
Slovakia
2
Gabon
1
Maldives
1
Norway
1
South Korea
1
Algeria
1
Morocco
1
French Guyana
1
Latvia
1
Belize
1
Costa Rica
1
Panama
1
Solomon Islands
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
4974
Key Resources
626
Women & Child Health
612
Clinical Guidelines
584
Public Health
566
Capacity Building
242
Pharmacy & Technologies
35
Annual Report MEDBOX
3
Toolboxes
COVID-19
1443
Mental Health
1231
HIV
793
Disability
569
TB
541
Planetary Health
483
Ebola & Marburg
372
Conflict
347
Caregiver
330
Refugee
324
NTDs
279
Rapid Response
263
Global Health Education
257
AMR
186
NCDs
174
Natural Hazards
160
Health Financing Toolbox
155
Malaria
130
Pharmacy
104
Social Ethics
74
Zika
66
Cholera
64
Polio
56
Specific Hazards
46
2.0 Rapid Response
29
Typhoon
7
South Sudan
2
COVID-19 Vaccines: 1 Safety Surveillance 2 Manual
While there is no indication that pregnant women have an increased susceptibility to infection with SARS-CoV-2, there is evidence that pregnancy may increase the risk of severe illness and mortality from COVID-19 disease in comparison with non-pregn...
Schools are generally the most popular setting for drug-use-
prevention programmes, and are used both by governmental and
non-governmental agencies. This may be for many reasons: ease of
obtaining funding for school drug-use-prevention programmes, the
captive audience, and the popular perception...
Japan has been implementing projects of global extension of medical technologies under an official development assistance policy to improve public health and medicine by promoting Japanese medical technologies worldwide. The current work examines the impact and goals of implementing this new scheme....
OpenWHO is WHO’s new, interactive, web-based platform that offers online courses to people preparing to work in epidemics, pandemics and health emergencies or already doing so.
The OpenWHO platform delivers WHO’s and partners’ expertise closer to where it is needed and provides information ...
The Mtoto Mwerevu Stunting Reduction Toolkit is a resource for government and organisations involved in addressing stunting and broader nutrition issues in Tanzania. The toolkit was developed in conjunction with the Government of Tanzania (GoT) with funding from UK Aid as part of the Addressing Stun...
The chapter Closing the Gap: The Health Disparities of Older LGBTI People in the Americas, is part of the publication series titled ‘Decade of Healthy Aging: situation and challenges’. In order to outline the current knowledge available on the situation of health and well-being of older persons ...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for 72% of all deaths globally and this proportion is growing. Greatest increases in NCD mortality are seen in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Places that only a generation ago knew famine are
today experiencing epidemics of obesity, diabetes...
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease that has rapidly spread to all regions of WHO in recent years. Dengue virus is transmitted by female mosquitoes mainly of the species Aedes aegypti and, to a lesser extent, Ae. albopictus. These mosquitoes are also vectors of chikungunya, yellow fever and Zik...
The target audience for this guideline is primarily for health care providers nurses, doctors, social workers and other people involved in HIV response in Rwanda so that they are capable of offering quality care services to patients over a long time. The new National Guidelines for Prevention and Ma...
According to the 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, 66% of Nepali households use mainly solid fuel for cooking on inefficient stoves. Incomplete fuel combustion of solid fuels emits greenhouse gases and harmful smoke, contributing to climate change, forest degradation, ill health and preventa...
Risk of spill-over of EVD to Uganda has been categorised as very high. On 28 September 2018, WHO elevated the risk at the regional level which includes Uganda from ‘high’ to ‘very high’. Uganda has a very long and largely porous border with the DRC. High population movements across the borde...
Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. You can download a summary of the main report and background documents!
The report demonstrates that the current system—at both national and international levels— was not adequate to protect people from COVID-19. The time it t...
Facing the COVID-19 (new coronavirus disease) pandemic, the countries of the world must take decisive action to stop the spread of the virus. In these critical circumstances, it is es- sential that everyone is informed about other health risks and hazards so that they can stay safe and healthy.
The...
La Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) ha publicado una guía con recomendaciones para reducir la transmisión de COVID-19 entre las poblaciones indígenas, afrodescendientes y otros grupos étnicos, que se centran en promover la higiene, el distanciamiento social, así como en mejorar el a...
Adolescence, defined as the period between 10 and 19 years of age, is a developmental stage during which many psychosocial
and mental health challenges emerge (1). Studies show that 34.6% of all mental health disorders begin by 14 years of age and 62.5% by 25 years (2). More broadly, adolescents ar...
Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a critical strategy to care for preterm and low birth weight infants in resource-limited settings. Despite evidence of its effectiveness and low cost, coverage has remained low, largely due to sociocultural barriers. We aimed to better understand social norms and commun...
The main objective of this mission was to assess the level of preparedness of Guinea-Bissau in respect of the WHO consolidated checklist. The checklist helps countries to assess and test their level of readiness it is being used to identify concrete action to be taken and where countries will requir...
interim guidance, 27 May 2021
All countries should increase their level of preparedness, alert and response to identify, manage and care for new cases of COVID-19. Countries should prepare to respond to different public health scenarios, recognizing that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to ma...
This article describes WHO's efforts to combat a cholera outbreak in South Sudan in July 2017. The organization received 500,000 doses of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) and was working with South Sudan's Ministry of Health to launch a vaccination campaign from July 28 to August 3, 2017. At the time, the...
