Report
17 Oct 2018
This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of earmarking, and it analyses country experience with earmarking for health and its impact on health sector budgets and the broader fiscal environment. The goal is to provide useful information to hea...
Report
17 Oct 2018
In April 2016, WHO’s Department of Health Systems Governance and Financing convened a follow-up meeting to bring together representatives of national health and finance authorities, as well as other public finance and health financing policy expert...
Report
17 Oct 2018
The overall aims of this document are to: provide guidance to Member States on monitoring and evaluation of national diet and physical activity policies and to assist them in identifying specific indicators to measure the implementation of these poli...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report provides a first review of the interactions between climate change, gender and health. It documents evidence for gender differences in health risks that are likely to be exacerbated by climate change, and in adaptation and mitigation meas...
Report
17 Oct 2018
Data in the report, Global accelerated action for the health of adolescents (AA-HA!): Guidance to support country implementation, reveal stark differences in causes of death when separating the adolescent group by age (younger adolescents aged 10–1...
Report
17 Oct 2018
The WHO-UNHCR publication Assessing Mental Health and Psychosocial Needs and Resources: Toolkit for Humanitarian Settings was developed because of frequent requests from the field to advise on assessment. Although a range of assessment tools exist, w...
Report
17 Oct 2018
Despite that headache is felt at some time by nearly everybody, and almost half the world’s adults at any one time have recent personal experience of one or more of the three very common headache disorders, much is unknown about the public-health i...
Report
19 Sep 2018
This report aims to provide an analysis of the gap in investment in NCD treatment and care in low- and middle-income countries. We identify major factors driving the gap and hindering investment, suggest potential solutions to increase the flow of ne...
Report
06 Dec 2017
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases and their risk factors are an increasing public health and development challenge in Kyrgyzstan. This report provides evidence through t...
Article
13 Oct 2017
In agonising, crippling pain from lung cancer, Mr S came to the palliative care service in Calicut, Kerala, from an adjoining district a couple of hours away by bus. His body language revealed the depth of the suffering.We put Mr S on morphine, among...
Report
05 Dec 2016
Policy report summarising discussions on how to understand the health needs of Indian women, and create a healthcare system free from gender bias.
Report
11 Jul 2016
The World Health Organization (WHO) Report on Psoriasis was published in 2016 in response to the 2014 World Health Assembly resolution (WHA67.9) that stated psoriasis should be viewed as a serious non-communicable disease (NCD). By passing the resolu...
