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WHO Regional Office for Africa

Success Stories - WHO Ghana

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This publication highlights success stories from the WHO Country Office for Ghana in six operational areas including Noncommunicable Diseases, Promoting Health through the Life Course, and Health Systems.

PublicationHealth promotionHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthTobacco use

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

Success Stories of WHO in the African Region: Delivering Achievements and Making an Impact

Case study

17 Oct 2018

This document highlights case studies that represent success stories, achievements, and impact in the WHO African Region. This includes one success story on the use of mobile phones for treating diabetes in Senegal.

Case studyCommunicable diseases

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

The African Regional Health Report 2014 - The health of the people: what works

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report is the first report to focus on the health of the 738 million people living in the African Region of the World Health Organization. It provides a comprehensive analysis of key public health issues and progress made on them in the Africa Region.

ReportMultisectoral ActionHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingSocial determinants of health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

The First WHO Africa Health Forum - Report

Report

17 Oct 2018

This document is a report from the First WHO Africa Health Forum in Kigali, Rwanda. The aim of the Forum was to explore Africa’s healthcare priorities and challenges and to find new ways to achieve better health for all. Participants at the Forum included leaders, policy makers, advocates, implementers and partners from various countries and with varied affiliations.

ReportMultisectoral ActionCommunicable diseasesHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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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 sector in which greenhouse-gas emissions need to be reduced.

PublicationEnvironment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

The MAPS Toolkit: mHealth Assessment and Planning for Scale

Guide

17 Oct 2018

The mHealth Assessment and Planning for Scale (MAPS) toolkit is a self-assessment tool that guides project teams whilst they are scaling up their innovations.

GuideDigital health and innovation

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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 concept where economic, social and environmental issues are interdependent dimensions that must be approached within a unified framework”, and where the overarching outcome is to fully promote human welfare and equal access to life-sustainin...

DialogueEnvironment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

The state of health in the WHO African Region

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report presents a comprehensive picture of the state of health and its determinants in the WHO African Region. It aims to act as a benchmark of progress, as Member States in the African Region adopt a range of actions to move their populations towards the health and well-being ideals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Report

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

The work of WHO in the African Region - Executive summary and illustrative report: 2017 - 2018

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report outlines the significant results achieved under the six categories of work of the 12th General Programme of Work. It reflects the contributions made by WHO Country Offices and the Regional Office, including the Intercountry Support Teams, who, in collaboration with their partners, support health development in Member States of the WHO African Region.

Report

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

The Work of WHO in the African Region, 2008 - 2009: Biennial report of the Regional Director

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report highlights WHO global consultations, declarations and reports on major health issues such as social determinants of health; public health, innovation and intellectual property; research for health; and health promotion, which have created opportunities to mobilize efforts and resources to address some of the main health challenges in the African Region.

Report

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

The work of WHO in the African Region, 2010 - 2011: Biennial report of the Regional Director

Report

17 Oct 2018

This executive summary reflects the work of WHO in the African Region during the biennium that was guided by the 11th General Programme of Work (GPW), the Medium-Term Strategic Plan (MTSP) 2008–2013, Country Cooperation Strategies (CCS) and the WHO African Region Strategic Directions 2010–2015, whose milestones define a set of deliverable results for the Region.

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

The Work of WHO in the African Region, 2010: Report of the Regional Director

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report on the work of WHO in the African Region 2010, presents the progress made in the first year of the biennium and has been prepared for submission to the sixty-first session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa.

ReportCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological Conditions

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