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World Health Organization

Mental health Action Plan 2013 - 2020

Report

17 Oct 2018

This action plan recognizes the essential role of mental health in achieving health for all people. It is based on a life-course approach, aims to achieve equity through universal health coverage and stresses the importance of prevention.

ReportMental Health and Neurological Conditions

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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 health while reducing carbon emissions.

PublicationEnvironment, climate change and healthHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingHousehold and Outdoor Air Pollution

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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 impacts on both communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Case studyEnvironment, climate change and health

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World Health Organization

Community based health insurance: how can it contribute to progress towards UHC?

Briefs & Fact Sheets

17 Oct 2018

This policy brief outlines what community based health insurance is and why it is important to discuss it in relation to universal health coverage. It explores how community based health insurance fits into health financing policy and its key characteristics and effects of CBHI on progress towards UHC.

Briefs & Fact SheetsHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization

Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition

Report

17 Oct 2018

This action plan illustrates a series of priority actions that should be jointly implemented by Member States and international partners to achieve, by the year 2025 through the six global nutrition targets.

ReportMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthNutrition and food safetyUnhealthy diets

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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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World Health Organization

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Publication

17 Oct 2018

Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989.

PublicationGender, equity and human rightsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

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World Health Organization

Core competencies in adolescent health and development for primary care providers

Guide

17 Oct 2018

The WHO document “Core competencies in adolescent health and development for primary care providers” aims to help countries develop competency-based educational programmes in adolescent health and development in both pre-service and in-service education.

GuideHealth Literacy DevelopmentMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthPrimary health care

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World Health Organization

Country Support Package for Equity, Gender and Human Rights

Guide

17 Oct 2018

This Country Support Package provides country-level support to "leaving no one behind," benefit health information systems, national health policies and strategies, and national health programmes.

GuideGender, equity and human rights

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World Health Organization

Creating an enabling environment for population-based salt reduction strategies

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report is a summary of the evidence and experiences presented during the technical meeting, as well as the discussions of the working group sessions and conclusions reached by the participants. It will contribute to the development of the WHO toolkit of population-based salt reduction strategies.

ReportHealth promotionSocial determinants of healthUnhealthy diets

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World Health Organization

Developing a national health financing strategy

Report

17 Oct 2018

The Guide is written for those responsible for, or those who advise on, the development and improvement of health financing policies. The intention is to not to prescribe a process or particular health financing arrangement, but to guide countries in developing their own HFS in a comprehensive manner that addresses main challenges of a particular country and reflects country systems.

ReportHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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