The COVID-19 pandemic’s immediate costs, measured in lives lost and damaged, have been appalling and continue to rise. In addition, its effects on individuals’ livelihoods and economies around the world have been deep and are likely to be long lasting. While saving lives was the near-exclusive f...ocus during the first phase of the crisis, governments are now trying to strike a delicate balance between preventing further economic damage by reopening parts of their economies, while managing the obvious health risks of doing so.
In the international mobility and migration arenas—policy areas enormously affected by the health and economic effects of the pandemic—this reflection considers both how these fields have fared thus far and the challenges that lay ahead
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Evaluation Report
Evaluation Office
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.
Zanoni BC, et al. BMJ Glob Health 2016;1:e000004. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2015-000004
Further analysis of the 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey
Background document to the 2018 joint statement by WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, ICM, ICN, FIGO and IPA: definition of skilled health personnel providing care during childbirth
Recomendaciones para un enfoque de salud pública
Segunda edición 2016
Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (Twelfth Report: October 2015)
White Paper from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Refugee Trauma Task Force
BMC Medicine201614:112 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0660-0
Purpose of this document: to present eight practical steps that Member States can take at the national and sub-national level to improve WASH in health care facilities