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World Health Organization

Care of girls and women living with female genital mutilation

Guide

30 Apr 2018

This handbook is for health care providers involved in the care of girls and women who have been subjected to any form of female genital mutilation (FGM). This includes obstetricians and gynaecologists, surgeons, general medical practitioners, midwives, nurses and other country-specific health professionals. Health-care professionals providing mental health care, and educational and psychosocial s...

GuideMental Health and Neurological ConditionsGender, equity and human rightsPrevention of violence and injuriesSocial determinants of health
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The Lancet Taskforce on NCDs and economics

The Lancet Taskforce on NCDs and economics

Publication

28 Apr 2018

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.4 commits countries to reducing by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This&nbsp;Lancet&nbsp;Taskforce on NCDs and economics—an official partner of the WHO Independent High-level Commission on NCDs—links SDG target 3.4 with eight SDGs in addition to SDG 3 (healthy lives and well being) and demonstrates the tight-k...

PublicationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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Action on Smoking and Health

Cape Town Declaration on Human Rights and a Tobacco-free World

Declaration

18 Mar 2018

&nbsp;The Cape Town Declaration on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free World, affirming that the production, marketing and sale of tobacco products is incompatible with basic human rights, has been adopted by over 150 organizations and prominent public health leaders from around the globe. The evidence is irrefutable, cigarettes kill more than five million people every year, yet the tobacco industry c...

DeclarationCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetes+4

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World Health Organization

Integrating palliative care and symptom relief into the response to humanitarian emergencies and crises.

Guide

11 Mar 2018

Responses to humanitarian emergencies and crises rarely provide palliative care, the discipline devoted to preventing and relieving suffering rather than to specific diseases, organs or technical skills.This guide, the fourth in a series of World Health Organization (WHO) guidance documents on palliative care, describes the medical and moral necessity of integrating palliative care and pain relief...

GuideCancerCardiovascular DiseaseChronic Respiratory DiseasesDiabetes+4

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World Health Organization

Asbestos: elimination of asbestos-related diseases

Briefs & Fact Sheets

07 Mar 2018

Key facts About 125 million people in the world are exposed to asbestos at the workplace. All forms of asbestos, including chrysotile, are carcinogenic to humans. What is asbestos? Asbestos is a group of naturally occurring fibrous minerals with current or historical commercial usefulness due to their extraordinary tensile strength, poor heat conduction, and relative resistance t...

Briefs & Fact SheetsCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesHousehold and Outdoor Air Pollution

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World Health Organization, World Diabetes Foundation

Global dialogue on partnerships for sustainable financing of NCD prevention and control: meeting report

Publication

28 Feb 2018

More than 300 participants from over 56 countries, including governments, United Nations agencies and non-State actors, came together on 9–11 April 2018 in Copenhagen, Denmark, to share ideas and best practices, to create and strengthen partnerships, and to discuss and debate how to find sustainable solutions to reach the noncommunicable disease (NCD) target 3.4 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainabl...

PublicationMultisectoral ActionMultistakeholder CollaborationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe, United Nations Interagency Task Force on NCDs (UNIATF)

Kyrgyzstan: Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases. The case for investment

Report

06 Dec 2017

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases and their risk factors are an increasing public health and development challenge in Kyrgyzstan. This report provides evidence through three analyses that NCDs reduce economic output and discusses potential options in response, outlining details of their relative returns on investment....

ReportHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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World Health Organization (WHO), Government of South Australia

Adelaide Statement II on Health in All Policies

Declaration

27 Nov 2017

We - 150 experts and practitioners of Health in All Policies (HiAP) from 21 countries - have come together in Adelaide at the invitation of the Government of South Australia and the World Health Organization, to celebrate ten years of Health in All Policies in South Australia. This meeting, on the traditional lands of the Kaurna people, offered the first major opportunity to explore the recommenda...

DeclarationMultisectoral ActionHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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Global Network for Health in All Policies (GNHiAP)

Global Network for Health in All Policies (GNHiAP)

Database

27 Nov 2017

Health in All Policies is an approach to public policies across sectors that systematically takes into account the health implications of decisions, seeks synergies, and avoids harmful health impacts, in order to improve population health and health equity. (WHO (2013), Health in All Policies – Framework for Country Action) The Global Network for Health in All Policies (GNHiAP) will work with...

DatabaseMultisectoral ActionMultistakeholder Collaboration

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World Health Organization

Intersectoral factors influencing equity-oriented progress towards universal health coverage: results from a scoping review of literature

Publication

27 Nov 2017

Achieving UHC is a major responsibility and goal of the health sector. But it cannot be done by the health sector alone. Its achievement depends on factors affecting the population being serviced, that are not under the direct control of the health sector (e.g., an individual’s family environment, access to infrastructure and resources, knowledge and education, etc.). Inequities across these int...

PublicationMultisectoral ActionGender, equity and human rightsSocial determinants of health

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World Health Organization

Sugars and dental caries

Briefs & Fact Sheets

09 Nov 2017

Key facts Dental caries (also known as tooth decay or dental cavities) is the most common noncommunicable disease worldwide. Severe dental caries affects general health and often causes pain and infection, which may result in tooth extraction. Dental caries is an expensive disease to treat, consuming 5–10% of healthcare budgets in industrialized countries, and is among the main reasons...

Briefs & Fact SheetsUnhealthy diets

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World Health Organization

WHO strategic Framework for effective communications

Guide

28 Oct 2017

Effective, integrated and coordinated communications are integral to achieve WHO’s goal of building a healthier future and deliver on WHO’s mission to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable. This Framework describes a strategic approach for effectively communicating WHO information, advice and guidance across a broad range of health issues: from chronic diseases to em...

GuideStrategy document

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