Filter
3191
Filtered Results: 3191
Text search:
interactive
tool
Featured
Recommendations
310
New Publications
780
Language
Document type
No document type
1790
Studies & Reports
526
Guidelines
365
Manuals
230
Strategic & Response Plan
105
Training Material
80
Fact sheets
50
Situation Updates
17
Resource Platforms
9
Infographics
6
Online Courses
5
Brochures
4
App
3
Videos
1
Countries / Regions
Global
159
India
121
Kenya
86
Uganda
63
Nigeria
57
Western and Central Europe
56
Sierra Leone
55
South Africa
55
Nepal
52
Liberia
49
Latin America and the Carribbean
45
Ethiopia
45
Tanzania
43
Malawi
42
Bangladesh
41
Myanmar / Burma
41
Rwanda
39
Africa
37
Zambia
36
Ghana
33
Syria
32
Congo, Democratic Republic of
32
Ukraine
28
Philippines
26
Namibia
24
South–East Asia Region
22
Cambodia
20
Lebanon
19
Indonesia
18
Zimbabwe
17
Lesotho
16
Germany
16
Eastern Europe
16
Haiti
15
Guinea
14
South Sudan
14
Mozambique
12
Asia
12
West and Central Africa
12
East and Southern Africa
12
Senegal
11
Vietnam
11
Brazil
11
Eswatini/ Swaziland
11
Jordan
10
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
10
Botswana
10
Pakistan
10
Burkina Faso
9
Afghanistan
9
Russia
9
Colombia
8
Cameroon
8
Middle East and North Africa
8
Western Pacific Region
8
Somalia
8
Thailand
7
Venezuela
7
Sri Lanka
7
Iraq
7
Benin
6
Sudan
6
Mali
6
China
5
USA
5
Yemen
5
Central African Republic
5
Turkey
4
Chile
4
Laos
4
North America
4
Belarus
4
Argentina
4
Egypt
4
Georgia
4
Ecuador
4
Madagascar
4
North Macedonia
3
Tajikistan
3
Timor Leste/ East Timor
3
Kazakhstan
3
Peru
3
Armenia
3
Southern Africa
3
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
3
Papua New Guinea
3
Honduras
3
North Korea
2
Albania
2
Canada
2
Fiji
2
Niger
2
Burundi
2
Malaysia
2
Qatar
2
Paraguay
2
Turkmenistan
2
United Kingdom
2
Spain
2
Bolivia
2
Moldova
2
Palestine
2
Libya
2
Bhutan
2
Solomon Islands
2
Guatemala
2
Mexico
1
El Salvador
1
Serbia
1
Gambia
1
Togo
1
Iran
1
Singapore
1
Kyrgyzstan
1
Congo-Brazzaville
1
Vanuatu
1
Morocco
1
Bulgaria
1
Mauritania
1
Dominican Republic
1
Guinea-Bissau
1
Croatia
1
Hungary
1
Ireland
1
Saudi Arabia
1
Jamaica
1
Japan
1
Belgium
1
France
1
Mauritius
1
Tunisia
1
Israel
1
Nicaragua
1
Romania
1
Poland
1
Angola
1
Chad
1
Cuba
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
964
Key Resources
283
Public Health
215
Clinical Guidelines
192
Women & Child Health
189
Capacity Building
112
Pharmacy & Technologies
20
Annual Report MEDBOX
2
Toolboxes
Mental Health
316
COVID-19
245
Disability
237
HIV
210
Planetary Health
174
TB
137
Caregiver
126
Conflict
90
Rapid Response
83
NTDs
77
Global Health Education
75
Ebola & Marburg
73
AMR
69
Refugee
57
NCDs
56
Natural Hazards
43
Pharmacy
42
Health Financing Toolbox
22
Social Ethics
19
Specific Hazards
18
Cholera
16
Zika
15
Polio
13
Malaria
8
Typhoon
3
In 2013 the World Health Organization (WHO) published the report Protecting health from climate change:vulnerability and adaptation assessment. The aim was to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting national or subnational assessments of current and future vulnerability (the susceptibilit...
Patient safety assessment manual
recommended
3rd edition. Patient safety standards are critical for the establishment and assessment of patient safety programmes within hospitals. This third edition of the Patient safety assessment manual provides an updated set of standards and assessment criteria that reflect current best practice and WHO gu...
WHO guideline on contact tracing
recommended
This practical guideline establishes definitions for “contact”, “contact person”, “contact tracing” and other associated concepts. It allows for improvement of contact tracing strategies and provides recommendations attempting to answer some, though not all, questions that arose during t...
‘Psychosocial Support of Children in Emergencies’ is a reference document for humanitarian workers who want to increase their understanding of the experiences of children in emergency situations and how to support them in mitigating the negative effects of these experiences and how to prevent fu...
This checklist is for any organization or person supporting the routine use of evidence in
the process of policy-making. Evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM) is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and universal health coverage (UHC). Its importance is emphasized in WH...
ICF is WHO's framework for health and disability. It is the conceptual basis for the definition, measurement and policy formulations for health and disability. It is a universal classification of disability and health for use in health and health related sectors. ICF therefore looks like a simple he...
Gender and security is a complex issue, and this research found that there are different levels of comprehension of what it means in humanitarian and development assistance practice. The aims of the paper are twofold: to raise general awareness about gender and how it relates to security risk manage...
Purpose: This research study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the services provided by CBR programmes in Jordan.
Method: This was a mixed- methods investigation. A survey was carried out with 47 participants (stakeholders and volunteers) from four CBR centres in Jordan. It comprised 18 que...
Silicosis is not a new disease; the impact of silica dust on respiratory function was observed by Hippocrates in 430 B.C. and in the 16th century by Agricol. In 1713, Rammazini described silicotic nodules in post-mortems of stone cutters presenting with respiratory symptoms. In the mid-late 1800s,...
Manual for step-by-step risk management for safely managed sanitation systems. 2nd edition.
This Sanitation safety planning (SSP) manual provides practical, step-by-step guidance to assist in the implementation of the 2018 World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines on sanitation and health and the ...
This sourcebook aims to detail why health needs to be part of urban and territorial planning and how to make this happen. It brings together two vital elements we need to build habitable cities on a habitable planet: 1) Processes to guide the development of human settlements – in this document ref...
The accounting framework for health care financing is a key component of A System of Health Accounts 2011, published by OECD, Eurostat and WHO in October 2011.1 The framework makes health accounts more adaptable to rapidly evolving health financing systems, further enhances crosscountry comparabilit...
BMJ Global Health, Vol.5 No. 12Spatial subdivision of the camp (‘sectoring’) was able to ‘flatten the curve’, reducing peak infection by up to 70% and delaying peak infection by up to several months. The use of face masks coupled with the efficient isolation of infected individuals reduced t...
STGs are designed to assist health care professionals in making decisions about appropriate, effective patient care. However, health managers often have trouble setting and meeting the high standards required of modern, developed health care systems. With stakeholders expressing concern over issues ...
The ICF Practical Manual provides information on how to use ICF. Anyone interested in learning more about use of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF, WHO 2001) may benefit from reading this Practical Manual. The ICF is presently used in many different contexts...
22 April 2022, This document provides updated interim recommendations on the use of masks by health workers providing care to patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. This update is prompted by new evidence around mask use and COVID-19 transmission, as well as the emergence of variants of conc...
Tuberculosis continues to represent a severe public health problem in the Region of the Americas, even more so in the case of indigenous peoples, whose TB incidence is much higher than that of the general population. To achieve tuberculosis control in these communities, it is necessary to respond t...
The document covers: introduction on contact tracing in the Ebola response; general considerations for contact tracing; case definition; planning and preparation; personnel; implementation, and tools for contact tracing.
This document focus on the direct consequences of the virus (morbidity and mortality) in specific populations and on the results of measures aimed at mitigating the spread of the virus, with indirect impacts on socio-economic conditions. In this complex scenario, the gender approach has not received...
Building on the 2021 Interim guidance, this second version and update, incorporates the lessons and feedback from the hepatitis pilots that successfully demonstrated the feasibility of measuring hepatitis B and C impact targets to demonstrate elimination, whilst highlighting challenges caused by hig...
