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A System of Health Accounts 2011: Revised edition

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Eurostat and World Health Organization (WHO) OECD Publishing, Paris (2017) CC

A System of Health Accounts 2011: Revised Edition provides an updated and systematic description of the financial flows related to the consumption of health care goods and services. As demands for information increase and more countries implement an ... more

Best Practices and Experience of Mauritius Preparedness and Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

World Health Organization WHO; Regional Office for Africa, Government of Mauritius (2021) C_WHO

his Inter Action Review report for the COVID-19 outbreak in Mauritius documents and assesses the country’s capacity to respond to the outbreak and identifies the best practices, strengths, gaps and challenges of the ... more

Attraction and Retention of Rural Primary Health-care Workers in the Asia Pacific Region

Liu Xiaoyun; Zhu, Anna; Tang, Shenglan World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia (2018) C_WHO

The Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies is a collaborative partnership which supports and promotes evidence-based health policy making in the Asia Pacific Region. Based in WHO’s Regional Office for South-East Asia, it brings to ... more

Public Health Advice on preventing health effects of heat

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Europe (2011) C_WHO

New and updated information. Adverse health effects of hot weather and heat-waves are largely preventable. Prevention requires a portfolio of actions at different levels:from health system preparedness, coordinated with meteorological early warning systems, to timely public ... more

Guidelines on Clinical Management of Chikungunya Fever

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia (2007) C_WHO

The socioeconomic factors and public health inadequacies that facilitated the rapid spread of this infection continue to exist. As it is a new and emerging disease it has not received sufficient coverage yet in the medical curricula of Member States ... more

Questions and answers on the prevention and control of alcohol-related harm

World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific (2019) C_WHO

The "Questions and Answers on Prevention and control of Alcohol related harm" has been developed by WHO country office in Viet Nam with technical contribution from national and international experts in the field. This publication provides scientific ... more

Epilepsy: a public health imperative
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World Health Organization WHO, International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) (2019) C_WHO

This is the first global report on epilepsy summarizing the available evidence on the burden of epilepsy and the public health response required at global, regional and national levels. The reports highlights major gaps in awareness, diagnosis, t ... more

Alcohol Policy in the WHO South-East Asia Region: A Report

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East-Asia (2017) C_WHO

The report aims to help policy-makers and programme managers identify the areas that need attention and to work towards effective implementation and enforcement of policies and legislations. The need for alcohol policy-specific infrastructures to su ... more

Brighter futures: Protecting early brain development through salt iodization

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) (2018)

The UNICEF-GAIN Partnership Project
The report notes that iodine deficiency is a leading cause of preventable brain damage worldwide. Insufficient iodine during pregnancy and infancy results in neurological and psychological deficits, reducing a child’s IQ by 8 to 10 points. This translates ... more

Women and Trachoma: Achieving Gender Equity in the Implementation of SAFE

The Carter Center, International Trachoma Initiative and Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology (2023) CC

The second edition of the Women and Trachoma: Achieving Gender Equity in the Implementation of SAFE manual provides an updated resource for realistically increasing, improving, and supporting gender representation within trachoma elimination efforts ... more

Rational Use of Medicines: a review

Dutta, S. (2019) CC

World Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medical Research vol. 5 (2019) 3, 129-132

Developing Global Health Programming

Evert, J.; P. Drain, and T. Hall (2014) CC

A Guidebook for Medical and Professional Schools, Second Edition. This book represents a significant step to engage health professions schools in addressing global health challenges

Executive Summary: Development of the human rights situation in Germany. July 2019 — June 2020

Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte (2020) CC

Institute for Human Rights annually submits a report on the development of the human rights situation in Germany to the German Federal Parliament (in accordance with sec. 2 para. 5 of the Act regard ... more

School based deworming

Deoworm the World (2010) C1

A planner’s guide to proposal development for national school-based deworming programs

An Indian Primer of Palliative Care
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M.R. Rajagopal Vallath Nandini, Lulu Mathews, et al. (2015) C1

For medical students and doctors

The social context of schistosomiasis and its control

Brunn, B.; Aagaard-Hansen, J.; Watts, S. World Health Organization WHO (2008) C_WHO

Schistosomiasis is widely recognized as a disease that is socially determined. An understanding of the social and behavioural factors linked to disease transmission and control should play a vital role in designing policies and strategies for schist ... more

Government policy interventions to reduce human antimicrobial use: A systematic review and evidence map

Van Katwyk, S. R.; Grimshaw, J. M.; et al (2019) C2

BACKGROUND: Growing political attention to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) offers a rare opportunity for achieving meaningful action. Many governments have developed national AMR action plans, but mo ... st have not yet implemented policy interventions to reduce antimicrobial overuse. A systematic evidence map can support governments in making evidence-informed decisions about implementing programs to reduce AMR, by identifying, describing, and assessing the full range of evaluated government policy options to reduce antimicrobial use in humans. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Seven databases were searched from inception to January 28, 2019, (MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PAIS Index, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Web of Science, and PubMed). We identified studies that (1) clearly described a government policy intervention aimed at reducing human antimicrobial use, and (2) applied a quantitative design to measure the impact. We found 69 unique evaluations of government policy interventions carried out across 4 of the 6 WHO regions. These evaluations included randomized controlled trials (n = 4), non-randomized controlled trials (n = 3), controlled before-and-after designs (n = 7), interrupted time series designs (n = 25), uncontrolled before-and-after designs (n = 18), descriptive designs (n = 10), and cohort designs (n = 2). From these we identified 17 unique policy options for governments to reduce the human use of antimicrobials. Many studies evaluated public awareness campaigns (n = 17) and antimicrobial guidelines (n = 13); however, others offered different policy options such as professional regulation, restricted reimbursement, pay for performance, and prescription requirements. Identifying these policies can inform the development of future policies and evaluations in different contexts and health systems. Limitations of our study include the possible omission of unpublished initiatives, and that policies not evaluated with respect to antimicrobial use have not been captured in this review. CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge this is the first study to provide policy makers with synthesized evidence on specific government policy interventions addressing AMR. In the future, governments should ensure that AMR policy interventions are evaluated using rigorous study designs and that study results are published. more

WHO policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities (Annexes)

World Health Organization (2012) C_WHO

Guidelines for national programmes and other stakeholders Annexes for webposting and CD-Rom distribution with the policy guidelines

WHO policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities (Guidelines)

World Health Organization WHO (2012) C_WHO

Guidelines for national programmes and other stakeholders, for annexes see http://www.who.int/tb/publications/2012/tb_hiv_policy_9789241503006/en/

Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level

Cruzatti, J., Dreher, A., and Matzat, J. AidData (2020) CC

We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-nationa ... more