Briefs & Fact Sheets
06 Jun 2024
Ensuring oral health is a crucial component of overall well-being, especially for refugees. Addressing their oral health needs requires collaboration among multiple stakeholders. This policy brief highlights the challenges and opportunities for addre...
Article
31 May 2024
In this BMJ opinion piece, Kent Buse and Monika Arora discuss WHO's efforts to provide guidance to countries to better assess and inform public sector engagement with the commercial sector are critical to prevent and control non-communicable diseases...
Article
30 May 2024
At the sidelines of the 77th World Health Assembly, FIND and the World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) held a side event on opportunities and barriers for integrating care for diabetes and tuberculosis (TB). Speakers engaged in dynamic dialogue across open...
Guide
30 May 2024
This practical guide underscores the importance of involving older people and community stakeholders at every stage of designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating initiatives for healthy ageing. It offers a clear framework to map out current...
Fact sheet
30 May 2024
This infographic distills HelpAge International’s strategic framework for reorienting Universal Health Coverage (UHC) to meet the unique needs of older people. It outlines the key barriers older populations face such as availability, accessibility,...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
30 May 2024
A video showcasing the duplicity of the tobacco industry—highlighting how its pledges to advance the Sustainable Development Goals starkly contrast with the harm its products cause to progress.
Case study
29 May 2024
Background Cervical cancer remains a global health challenge. With estimated 604,000 new cases and 342,000 deaths worldwide in 2020, cervical cancer is the fourth most frequently diagnosed cancer and the fourth leading cause of death from canc...
Case study
28 May 2024
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health conditions have a profound impact on societies, communities and individuals around the world. Their risk factors and determinants extend beyond the traditional health sector. Addressing this complex c...
Article
27 May 2024
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) arise from diverse risk factors with differences in the contexts and variabilities in regions and countries. Addressing such a complex challenge requires local evidence. Tanzania has been convening stakeholders every...
Publication
26 May 2024
This document incorporates all key policy documents that inform and define the renewed global oral health agenda towards 2030:- the resolution on oral health (WHA74.5, 2021)- the Global strategy on oral health (WHA75 (11), 2022)- the Global oral heal...
Fact sheet
24 May 2024
Summary: Thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot (thrombus) inside a blood vessel, which can obstruct blood flow. This condition can occur in both arteries and veins and can lead to serious health complications if not treated promptly. Common...
Fact sheet
24 May 2024
Summary: Hemostasis is the physiological process that stops bleeding, involving a complex interplay of platelets, blood vessels, and coagulation factors to form a blood clot at the site of injury, ultimately maintaining vascular integrity and prev...
