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World Health Organization

Fact Sheet: Universal health coverage (UHC)

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17 Oct 2018

Fact sheet on Universal Health Care

PublicationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care

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World Health Organization

New Perspectives on Global Health Spending for Universal Health Coverage

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17 Oct 2018

This report summarizes the latest internationally comparable data on health spending in all WHO Member States between 2000 and 2015. But it does more than publish the most recent data. For the first time the report also uses the new international cla...

PublicationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization

Nutrition Landscape Information System (NLIS) country profile indicators

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17 Oct 2018

This Indicator Interpretation Guide provides information on all indicators included in the Country Profile. For each indicator, the Guide gives a general understanding and scientific definition, a description of consequences or implications, includin...

PublicationNutrition and food safetyUnhealthy diets

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World Health Organization

Promoting health while mitigating climate change

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17 Oct 2018

This is one of two technical background papers prepared as a basis for discussion at the WHO Health and Climate Conference. It provides a brief summary of the available evidence on the health impacts (co-benefits and risks) of climate change mitigati...

PublicationMultisectoral ActionEnvironment, climate change and healthHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing+1

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World Health Organization

Protecting health from climate change: Global research priorities

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17 Oct 2018

WHO carried out a global consultation which brought experts on climate change, health and related disciplines together to produce background reports covering each of the themes identified by the WHA Resolution. This report presents the conclusions an...

PublicationEnvironment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health

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World Health Organization

Protecting health from climate change: vulnerability and adaptation assessment

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17 Oct 2018

This document is designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting a national or subnational assessment of current and future vulnerability (i.e. the susceptibility of a population or region to harm) to the health risks of climate change,...

PublicationEnvironment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health

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World Health Organization

Protecting health from climate change: vulnerability and adaptation assessment

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17 Oct 2018

This document is designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting a national or subnational assessment of current and future vulnerability (i.e. the susceptibility of a population or region to harm) to the health risks of climate change,...

PublicationEnvironment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health

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World Health Organization

Protocol to eliminate illicit trade in tobacco products

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17 Oct 2018

This treaty aims at eliminating all forms of illicit trade in tobacco products. It provides tools for preventing illicit trade by securing the supply chain, including by establishing an international tracking and tracing system, by countering illicit...

PublicationMultisectoral ActionTobacco use

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World Health Organization

Healthy hospitals, healthy planet, healthy people: Addressing climate change in healthcare settings

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17 Oct 2018

The paper begins to define a framework for analysing and addressing the health sector’s climate footprint – including identifying seven aspects of a climate-friendly hospital. It also draws on a series of examples from around the world that demon...

PublicationEnvironment, climate change and healthHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization

Lessons learned on health adaptation to climate variability and change: experiences across low and middle-income countries

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17 Oct 2018

This document in the first part reviews and synthesizes the first five years of implementation (2008–2013) of projects on health adaptation to climate variability and change in low and middle income countries worldwide. The second part of the repor...

PublicationMultisectoral ActionEnvironment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health+1

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World Health Organization

Climate and Health Country Profiles - 2015 A Global Overview

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17 Oct 2018

The WHO UNFCCC Climate and Health Country Profile Project aims to raise awareness of the health impacts of climate change, support evidence-based decision making to strengthen the climate resilience of health systems, and promote actions that improve...

PublicationEnvironment, climate change and healthHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingHousehold and Outdoor Air Pollution+1

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World Health Organization

Convention on the Rights of the Child

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17 Oct 2018

Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989.

PublicationGender, equity and human rightsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

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