Guide
12 Sep 2018
Addressing health workforce shortage, maldistribution and performance challenges is essential for progress towards all health-related goals, including universal health coverage. Further, the health sector has the potential to be a driver of economic...
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, midwiv...
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 Hea...
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 st...
Guide
05 Jun 2016
These guidelines are intended primarily for health-care professionals involved in the care of girls and women who have been subjected to any form of female genital mutilation (FGM).This document also provides guidance for policy-makers, health-care m...
Guide
16 Feb 2016
This is a practical manual on how to plan and implement palliative care services, integrated into existing health-care services, at national or subnational level. It has been designed primarily for health programme managers at national, provincial, o...
Guide
04 Mar 2014
Overview Every year, breast cancer kills more than 500 000 women around the world. In resource–poor settings, a majority of women with breast cancer are diagnosed at an advanced stage of disease; their 5-year survival rates are low, ranging from 10...
Guide
29 Sep 2005
The purpose of the manual is to provide guidelines and supporting material for sites embarking on a STEPS stroke surveillance study, so they are able to:plan and prepare the surveillance study scope and environment • recruit and train data collecti...
