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World Health Organization (WHO)

HEARTS Technical Package

Guide

17 May 2019

The HEARTS technical package provides a strategic approach to improving cardiovascular health in countries. It comprises six modules and an implementation gu...

Guide Cardiovascular Disease Health system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care Harmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Global Hearts Initiative

Fact sheet

17 May 2019

To support governments in strengthening the prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), in 2016 WHO and the United States Centers for Disease C...

Fact sheet Cardiovascular Disease Health system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care Physical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Solutions for non-communicable disease prevention and control

Article

15 May 2019

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) constitute a major global health challenge, hampering nations’ economic growth and sustainable development. The four major...

Article Cardiovascular DiseaseCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological Conditions Household and Outdoor Air PollutionHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityUnhealthy dietsTobacco use

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Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance

Universal Health Coverage and Palliative Care: Do not leave those suffering behind

Report

07 May 2019

&nbsp; This report, published on the first-ever Universal Health Coverage Day, highlights the current situation in relation to hospice and palliati...

Report Cardiovascular DiseaseCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological Conditions Household and Outdoor Air PollutionHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets

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Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS)

The Global Impact of Respiratory Disease

Report

07 May 2019

The purpose of this report is to call attention to the importance of respiratory health in the world and to raise it to be a top priority in global decision-...

Report CancerChronic Respiratory Diseases Household and Outdoor Air Pollution

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Every Woman Every Child

Saving Lives Protecting Futures: Progress Report on Global Strategy for Women and Children's Health 2010-2015

Report

07 May 2019

This report measures progress of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goals 4, 5, and 6. T...

Report CancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory Diseases Gender, equity and human rightsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health Harmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets

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World Health Organization

The WHO special initiative for mental health (2019-2023): universal health coverage for mental health

Briefs & Fact Sheets

02 May 2019

In 2018 the WHO Director-General identified mental health for accelerated implementation within WHO’s work. This WHO Special Initiative seeks to ensure uni...

Briefs & Fact Sheets Mental Health and Neurological Conditions

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Follow-up to the high-level meetings of the United Nations General Assembly on NCDs

Report

24 Apr 2019

The report is submitted in response to resolution WHA71.2 (2018), which “requests the Director-General to report to the Seventy-second World Health Assembl...

Report Cardiovascular DiseaseDiabetesCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological Conditions Household and Outdoor Air PollutionHarmful use of alcoholPhysical inactivityTobacco useUnhealthy diets

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Lancet Oncology

Core elements of national cancer control plans: a tool to support plan development and review

Article

16 Apr 2019

When developed and implemented effectively, national cancer control plans (NCCPs) improve cancer outcomes at the population level. However, many countries do...

Article Cancer Health system strengthening, including governance and financing

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Venous Thromboembolism: A Call for Risk Assessment in all Hospitalised Patients published in Thrombosis and Haemostasis (October 2016)

Article

15 Apr 2019

Thrombosis is a major contributor to the global burden of disease because it is the pathology underlying venous thromboembolism (VTE), ischaemic heart diseas...

Article Cardiovascular Disease Physical inactivity

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Forum of International Respiratory Societies

Respiratory diseases in the world

08 Apr 2019

This document outlines practical approaches to combat threats to respiratory health and proven strategies to significantly improve the care provided for indi...

Chronic Respiratory Diseases Household and Outdoor Air PollutionTobacco use

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Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance

Palliative Care and the Global Goal for Health Report

Report

08 Apr 2019

The aim of the report is to show how the Global Goal for Health and accompanying targets could support a focus on improving palliative care for people with l...

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