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World Health Organization

Protocol to eliminate illicit trade in tobacco products

Publication

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

Health and disaster risk reduction within the Global Framework for climate services

Report

17 Oct 2018

This document is a consultation report from a meeting organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) and the UN International Strategy for Disaste...

ReportMultisectoral ActionEmergency preparedness, prevention and responseEnvironment, climate change and health+1

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World Health Organization

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

Publication

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

Heatwaves and Health: Guidance on Warning-System Development

Guide

17 Oct 2018

This Guidance has been developed jointly by WMO and WHO to outline for practitioners in both NMHSs and National Health Services (NHSs) the issues surrounding the general heat–health problem and present how an understanding of the biometeorology, ep...

GuideEmergency preparedness, prevention and responseEnvironment, climate change and health

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World Health Organization

Innov8 approach for reviewing national health programmes

Guide

17 Oct 2018

The Innov8 technical handbook is a user-friendly resource as part of the Innov8 approach for reviewing national health programmes to leave no one behind. It gives detailed guidance and exercise sheets for each of the 8 steps of analysis that comprise...

GuideHealth 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

Publication

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

Mainstreaming gender in health adaptation to climate change programmes

Guide

17 Oct 2018

This guide is targeted towards programme managers who work in climate change and health adaptation, and provides them with practical information and concrete guidance to mainstream gender throughout all four phases of the project cycle: identificatio...

GuideEnvironment, climate change and healthGender, equity and human rights

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World Health Organization

MCA progress report 2014-15 WHO's Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health

Report

17 Oct 2018

This document presents a strategy to implement programmes for maternal health, newborn and preterm care, the quality of service delivery and how to ensure patient safety, integrated management of childhood illness, early child development, adolescent...

ReportMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

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World Health Organization

Climate and Health Country Profiles - 2015 A Global Overview

Publication

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

Climate Change and Health

Fact sheet

17 Oct 2018

An overview of climate change and health, including key facts and WHO's leadership and coordination role.

Fact sheetEnvironment, climate change and health

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World Health Organization

Climate change and health WHA resolution

Case study

17 Oct 2018

This document is a summary of the discussion on climate change and health at the 66th World Health Assembly. The discussion highlighted the many ways in which climate change affects health, through increasing risks of weather-related extremes, to imp...

Case studyEnvironment, climate change and health

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World Health Organization

The Global Conference on Health and Climate Change

Report

17 Oct 2018

The objective of this conference was to develop, in consultation with Member States and other key stakeholders, a draft action plan for the SIDS Initiative with the following areas of action: empowerment, evidence, implementation, and resources.

ReportEnvironment, climate change and health

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