World Health Organization
Injuries and violence
Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Mar 2021
Key facts Injuries – both unintentional and violence-related – take the lives of 4.4 million people around the world each year and co...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Mar 2021
Key facts Injuries – both unintentional and violence-related – take the lives of 4.4 million people around the world each year and co...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
26 Aug 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected older people disproportionately, especially those living in long-term care facilities. In many countries, evidence shows t...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
05 Aug 2020
Key facts Palliative care improves the quality of life of patients and that of their families who are facing challenges associated with l...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
03 Aug 2020
The global crisis of COVID-19 is deepening pre-existing inequalities, exposing the extent of exclusion and highlighting that work on disability inclusion is ...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
15 May 2020
Although the COVID-19 crisis is, in the first instance, a physical health crisis, it has the seeds of a major mental health crisis as well, if action is not ...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
06 May 2020
The global crisis of COVID-19 is deepening pre-existing inequalities, exposing the extent of exclusion and highlighting that work on disability inclusion is ...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
30 Apr 2020
This policy brief examines the implementation of the WHO Package of Essential Non-Communicable Disease Interventions (PEN) across Myanmar’s 330 townships a...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Mar 2020
Key Facts Community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes are usually voluntary and characterized by community members p...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Feb 2020
The policy brief highlights the gaps in the first decade of the NCD response and what is lacking to reach the global targets for NCD reduction. The policy br...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
10 Feb 2020
Policy Brief on Kidney Diseases written by the ISN on the occasion of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on UHC ...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
10 Feb 2020
Kidney disease is a high priority NCD which now requires urgent consideration by political leaders. As the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda progres...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
30 Jan 2020
This policy brief examines how inclusive self‑help groups in Myanmar can support prevention, early detection, and management of non-communicable d...