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Investing in Mental Health: Evidence for Action

World Health Organization WHO (2013) C_WHO

In this report, potential reasons for this apparent contradiction between cherished human values and observed social actions are explored with a view to better formulating concrete steps that governments and other stakeholders can take to reshape social attitudes and public policy.

WASH in Health Care Facilities- Global Baseline Report 2019

World Health Organization, UN Children's Fund (2019) C_WHO

The WHO/UNICEF JMP report, WASH in Health Care Facilities, is the first comprehensive global assessment of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities. It also finds that 1 in 5 health care facilities has no sanitation service*, impacting 1.5 billion people. The report further rev ... more

Status Report on prison health in Europe

World Health Organization (Europe) (2019) C_WHO

Overwhelming evidence shows that a range of health concerns—mental illness, substance dependence, HIV/AIDS, and noncommunicable diseases—affect prisoners disproportionately. But, while incarceration poses risks to health—including inadequate nutrition and exposure to violence—prisons also pr ... more

Africa CDC: Event based Surveillance Framework

Africa CDC (2018) C_CDC

Event-based surveillance (EBS) is defined as the organized collection, monitoring, assessment and interpretation of mainly unstructured ad hoc information regarding health events or risks, which may represent an acute risk to health. Both indicator-based and event-based surveillance components serve ... more

Progressing the Sustainable Development Goals through Health in All Policies: Case studies from around the world

Lin V.; Kickbusch I.; Baer B. World Health Organisation WHO (2021) C_WHO

Health in All Policies (HiAP) is not a new concept. While the term “HiAP” has received much attention since the 1990s, the concept of working across sectors of government for improved population health and wellbeing is much older than that. Over the last few decades the term has been applied t ... more

Global oral health status report: towards universal health coverage for oral health by 2030: executive summary

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2022) C_WHO

The executive summary of the WHO Global oral health status report presents a snapshot of the most recent data on major oral diseases, risk factors, health system challenges and opportunities for reform. The report’s clear conclusion is that the status of global oral health is alarming and requires ... more

Air pollution and the noncommunicable disease prevention agenda: opportunities for public health and environmental science

Howse, E.; Crane, M.; Hanigan, I. et al. Environmental Research Letters (2021) CC

Air pollution is a major environmental risk factor and contributor to chronic, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). However, most public health approaches to NCD prevention focus on behavioural and biomedical risk factors, rather than environmental risk factors such as air pollution. This article discus ... more

Our Right to Health, Our Right to Clean Air - Improving air quality to address NCDs

NCD Alliance; Forum of International Respiratory Societies (2019) CC

This policy brief explores the impact of air pollution on health and address the air quality issue in the response to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). It also provides key actions that policy makers, NGOs and health professionals can take to ensure that every one can breathe clean air.

Democratic Republic of the Congo Taxometry

World Health Organization; Regional Office for Africa (2010) C_WHO

Behaviour Change Communication in Emergencies: A Toolikt

UNICEF ROSA (2006)

Modelling COVID-19 vaccination status and adherence to public health and social measures, Eastern Mediterranean Region and Algeria

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The introduction of vaccines for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) added another measure to the existing set of recommended preventive measures (wearing a mask in public, keeping a distance from other people and regular handwashing). The roll-out of the vaccines, however, raised concerns that vac ... more

The top 10 causes of death

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

December 2020

WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience. Russian Version

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Рекомендации ВОЗ по оказанию дородовой помощи для формирования положительного опыта беременности

Two Decades of HIV/AIDS in Tajikistan: Reversing the Tide or the Coming of Age Paradigm?

A. Latypov Central Asia-Caucasus Institute; Silk Road Studies Program; Research Gate (2008) C2

China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, Volume 6, No. 3 (2008) p. 101-128 © Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program ISSN: 1653-4212

Disaster Emergency Needs Assessment

ICRC and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (2000)

Disaster Preparedness Training Programme

Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment Guidelines

IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross Red Cresent Societies (2006)

Clinical Protocol for the Health & Development of Adolescent and Young people in Nigeria

Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria; WHO; UNFPA (2011) C_WHO

ACT Alliance Appeal: Post-Ebola Recovery Program in Liberia – LBR151 (Re-Issued)

ACT Alliance (2015)

Zimbabwe National Pharmacovigilance Policy Handbook, 2nd ed.

Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) | Ministry of Health and Child Care (2016) C2

The Zimbabwe National Pharmacovigilance Policy Handbook, 2nd Edition updates the November 2013 version to indicate the Zimbabwe National Pharmacovigilance (PV) Centre’s compliance with the WHO Pharmacovigilance Indicators Handbook 2015.