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17 Oct 2018
This meeting report provides a full summary of the overall key messages and way forward for this collaborative agenda, as well as session-by-session briefs.
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17 Oct 2018
This publication is a WHO-released quantitative assessment of the health impacts of climate change. It constitutes an update and a further development of the assessment that was first published by WHO for the year 2000, now with a wider range of health impacts, and projections for future years.
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17 Oct 2018
The document outlines and frames five key policy issues that emerged from expert and practitioners’ discussions held at various meetings. These issues are considered critical for reforms to shift towards strategic purchasing and cover: 1) governance; 2) information management systems; 3) benefit design; 4) mixed provider payment systems; and 5) managing alignment and dynamics.
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17 Oct 2018
This is one of two technical background papers prepared as a basis for discussion at the WHO Health and Climate Conference. It provides a brief summary of the available evidence on the health impacts of climate change, and an outline of the necessary response to protect health from these evolving risks.
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17 Oct 2018
This report reviews the scientific evidence for the linkages between health and biodiversity, climate change and desertification, the representation of health in the corresponding Rio Conventions, and the opportunities for more integrated and effective policy.
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17 Oct 2018
The main objective of the study is to examine key dimensions of the changing relation between public financing for health and the economy, the budget and sector financing over the period 2000-2014. The study specifically examines trends in public expenditure on health from domestic sources, separating out external sources channeled through the budget, in the context of transitioning from health ai...
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17 Oct 2018
Fact sheet on Universal Health Care
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17 Oct 2018
This report summarizes the latest internationally comparable data on health spending in all WHO Member States between 2000 and 2015. But it does more than publish the most recent data. For the first time the report also uses the new international classification for health expenditures in the revised System of Health Accounts (SHA-2). 6 These classifications enable presenting detailed information o...
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17 Oct 2018
This Indicator Interpretation Guide provides information on all indicators included in the Country Profile. For each indicator, the Guide gives a general understanding and scientific definition, a description of consequences or implications, including cut-off-values for public health significance where these have been established, and reference to the source of information and suggested further re...
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17 Oct 2018
This is one of two technical background papers prepared as a basis for discussion at the WHO Health and Climate Conference. It provides a brief summary of the available evidence on the health impacts (co-benefits and risks) of climate change mitigation strategies, and an outline of the necessary health sector responses that may contribute to optimizing co-benefits while mitigating risks.
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17 Oct 2018
WHO carried out a global consultation which brought experts on climate change, health and related disciplines together to produce background reports covering each of the themes identified by the WHA Resolution. This report presents the conclusions and recommendations from this process, with the aim of improving the evidence base for policies to protect health from climate change.
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17 Oct 2018
This document is designed to provide basic and flexible guidance on conducting a national or subnational assessment of current and future vulnerability (i.e. the susceptibility of a population or region to harm) to the health risks of climate change, and of policies and programmes that could increase resilience, taking into account the multiple determinants of climate-sensitive health outcomes.
