World Health Organization
Trans fat
Briefs & Fact Sheets
24 Jan 2024
Key facts Trans fat, or trans-fatty acids (TFA), are unsaturated fatty acids that come from either industrial or natural sources....
Briefs & Fact Sheets
24 Jan 2024
Key facts Trans fat, or trans-fatty acids (TFA), are unsaturated fatty acids that come from either industrial or natural sources....
A survey was conducted first in Ukrain neighbouring host countries and then in Ukrain in order to assess cancer needs. It is clear that the war sig..
Ukraine
22 Jan 2024
Case study
22 Jan 2024
The conflict in Ukraine did not begin with the Russian invasion in 2022: since 2014, 1.5 million people had already been internally displaced in the occupied...
Prevalence of diabetes among the adult population in Ukraine is over 7%, and reduced access to appropriate diabetes care was quickly identified as a health c..
Ukraine
22 Jan 2024
Strategy document
22 Jan 2024
This toolkit provides key information on Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) prevention, detection, and management. Aligning with the ISN 0by25 initiati...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
22 Jan 2024
Living with and managing a chronic condition can be challenging in any circumstances. However, people living with NCDs face even greater challenges when livi...
Bridgetown, Barbados, 16 January 2024 (PAHO) – A Global School Health Survey conducted in Barbados in 2011 revealed that over 30% of school children aged 9..
Barbados
16 Jan 2024
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Jan 2024
Even though the prevalence and absolute number of current tobacco users aged 15 years old or older has declined steadily in the 20 years since the adoption o...
Publication
03 Jan 2024
WHO has been supporting EMR Member States in their efforts to achieve nutrition-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the global and regional nutr...
Case study
01 Jan 2024
This Series is produced as first part of the WHO’s Primary Health Care (PHC) Implementation Solutions Initiative. The Series sets out to unpack the impleme...
Publication
22 Dec 2023
The technical paper distils key messages from the World Health Organization publication “Voice, agency, empowerment – handbook on social participation fo...
Every drowning is preventable. Globally, however, hundreds of thousands of people lose their lives by drowning every year. In 2019, one in three of the world..
Viet Nam
21 Dec 2023