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World Health Organization

What ministries of labor and employment need to know: NCDs

Briefs & Fact Sheets

12 Nov 2018

This policy brief highlights the role of Ministries of labor and employment in recognizing that the right to health is a fundamental responsibility of the go...

Briefs & Fact Sheets Multistakeholder Collaboration Environment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Road Safety in the Americas

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report functions as a monitoring tool for assessing the situation into the Decade and Plan of Action’s third year. As such, it describes the current r...

Report Environment, climate change and health Harmful use of alcohol

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Road Safety in the Americas

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report reflects current road safety information from 31 Member States. It indicates the regional, subregional rate of road traffic deaths and country sp...

Report Environment, climate change and health Harmful use of alcohol

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease in Agricultural Communities in Central America: Case definitions, methodological basis and approaches for public health surveillance

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This document presents a background to this epidemic, including its epidemiology and main hypothetical risk factors of Chronic Kidney Disease of non-Traditio...

Publication Environment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Chronic Kidney Disease in Agricultural Communities in Central America - 2013

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This paper examines the current situation of chronic kidney disease in agricultural communities in Central America. The paper also presents the progress made...

Publication Environment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

The social dimensions of climate change

Dialogue

17 Oct 2018

This paper addresses the social dimensions of climate change from a sustainable, equitable development perspective, understood as “an irreducible holistic ...

Dialogue Environment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

The health benefits of tackling climate change - An Executive Summary for the Lancet Series

Publication

17 Oct 2018

Executive summary of The Lancet Series, authored by an international group of public health, environmental, and other scientists. Each study focuses on one s...

Publication Environment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

Climate change is affecting our health

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This brochure presents six paintings commissioned by WHO as part of an art project aiming to support awareness-raising about the health consequences of clima...

Publication Environment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

Fact sheet: Climate change

Fact sheet

17 Oct 2018

This fact sheet presents an overview with key facts on climate change and WHO response in the African Region. ...

Fact sheet Environment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

International minimum requirements for health protection at the workplace

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report provides an analysis of the current spectrum of global, regional and national norms including conventions, standards, directives, regulations, gu...

Report Communicable diseasesEnvironment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

Public Health & Environment in the African Region: Report on the Work of WHO

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report presents the work of WHO in managing environmental determinants of human health in the African Region over the period 2010-2011. It highlights WH...

Report Environment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

Protecting Health from Climate Change: Connecting Science, Policy and People

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This publication highlights that all populations will be affected by a changing climate, but the initial health risks vary greatly, depending on where and ho...

Publication Environment, climate change and health

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