WHO FCTC Secretariat
Tobacco has a negative impact on the environment
Briefs & Fact Sheets
25 Jan 2022
This video showcases key facts and figures on the impact of tobacco cultivation and smoking on our environment and health.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
25 Jan 2022
This video showcases key facts and figures on the impact of tobacco cultivation and smoking on our environment and health.
Report
21 Jan 2022
The Global Strategy for Diagnosis, Management and Prevention of COPD is a non-biased review of the current evidence for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of COPD that can aid the practicing clinician faced with managing this chronic disease. S...
Publication
19 Nov 2021
The Global Investment Case for Tobacco Cessation outlines the health and economic benefits from investing in evidence-based interventions to support tobacco cessation in low- and middle-income countries. The goal is to provide policymakers, donors, a...
Publication
19 Nov 2021
Progress in reducing tobacco use is a key indicator for measuring countries’ efforts to implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control – target 3.a under the Sustainable Development Goals agenda. Countries have adopted this indicator t...
Report
09 Oct 2021
The Global Impact of Respiratory Disease report outlines major causes of respiratory disease and mortality and lays out recommendations for global action.
Publication
29 Jul 2021
This handbook supports the Practice Transformation Programme on Diabetes. It presents an overview of diabetes and describes the various services pharmacists can provide aiming at disease prevention, screening, disease state management and treatment o...
Article
24 May 2021
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 24, 2021 – Our vision of a world without tobacco deaths is materializing. Today, ASH released an open letter calling on governments around the world to not only envision ending the tobacco epidemic but put in place concrete p...
Guide
12 Apr 2021
OverviewThis WHO technical manual on tobacco tax policy and administration builds upon the 2010 WHO technical manual on tobacco tax administration by further detailing the strategies for effective tobacco tax policy development, design, implementatio...
Guide
12 Apr 2021
This WHO technical manual on tobacco tax policy and administration builds upon the 2010 WHO technical manual on tobacco tax administration by further detailing the strategies for effective tobacco tax policy development, design, implementation and ad...
Report
15 Sep 2020
Signalling Virtue, Promoting Harm: Unhealthy commodity industries and COVID-19, authored by the NCD Alliance and the SPECTRUM Consortium, is a preliminary exposé and analysis of tactics and strategies adopted by the unhealthy commodity industries du...
Database
26 Aug 2020
This interactive map allows users to explore many different aspects related to global obesity hosted by the World Obesity Federation.
Publication
26 Aug 2020
The Rehabilitation self-management leaflet provides basic exercises and advice for adults who have been severely unwell and admitted to the hospital with COVID-19. The leaflet assist in self-rehabilitation and recovery management, addressing specific...