Report
24 Jul 2019
In this report, the Uruguayan State has taken on the challenge of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) as a demo epidemiological problem and has implemented a public policy based on a set of health actions and intersectoral programs, based on the recommen...
Report
02 Jul 2019
Despite these multiple benefits, the majority of developing countries have yet to seize the growth and development opportunities offered by high-performing health financing. Major coverage gaps for essential health services persist; for those who rec...
Report
18 Jun 2019
This economic analysis makes the case for investing in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in Armenia. Through three comprehensive analyses—economic burden, intervention costing, and return on investment—the report demon...
Report
29 May 2019
World health statistics 2019 summarizes recent trends and levels in life expectancy and causes of death, and reports on the health and health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets. Where possible, the 2019 report disaggr...
Report
07 May 2019
This report, published on the first-ever Universal Health Coverage Day, highlights the current situation in relation to hospice and palliative care and UHC and makes recommendations for working towards the greater inclusion of palliative ca...
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-making.
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. The report also mentions areas that require heightened mobilization and development; lessons l...
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 Assembly, through the Executive Board, on the outcomes of the third High-level Meeting of the Genera...
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 life-threatening and life-limiting illness globally and to make recommendations for inclusion...
Report
08 Apr 2019
This document is a summary of two pilot NCD advocacy courses, one in Thailand and one in Colombia. A Global Advisory Group engaged a Local Organizing Committee in each country to ensure the courses would meet the needs of the local stakeholders. Whil...
Report
08 Apr 2019
The goal of this report is to document changes resulting from local projects from the youth in the project to the built environment. It also seeks to capture an understanding of themes that can inform future health promotion and youth development wor...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
07 Mar 2019
The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) conducted a feasibility study to assess the public health need for – and the feasibility and potential public health impact of – expanding its mandate from HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis C to patented essential me...
