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04 Mar 2025
This comprehensive e-learning course empowers breast imaging health professionals, including radiologists, medical physicists, radiation technologists, postgraduate students, and managers, with essential skills to master digital mammography imaging, adhere to operational standards, and understand the multifaceted roles within a mammography imaging team, ultimately ensuring high-quality services an...
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10 Feb 2025
The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) presents this document ahead of the Fourth UN High-Level Meeting in September 2025. The document advances key advocacy messages and policy recommendations specifically directed at UN Member States and policymakers at national, regional and local levels.
Guide
27 Jan 2025
This guideline provides evidence-informed guidance on the use of lower-sodium salt substitutes (LSSS).The recommendation in this guideline can be used by policy-makers, programme managers, health professionals and other stakeholders in their efforts to promote reduction of sodium intake and reduce the risk of hypertension and related noncommunicable diseases through a range of public health policy...
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14 Jan 2025
An estimated 1.3 billion people globally experience significant disability. This figure has grown over the last decade and will continue to rise due to demographic and epidemiological changes. In 2022, the World Health Organization launched the Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities. This report demonstrated that many persons with disabilities are still being left behind. Exp...
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14 Nov 2024
The Guidance on global monitoring for diabetes prevention and control by WHO provides a comprehensive framework to support countries in tracking and managing diabetes prevention, care, and outcomes. This document outlines indicators across 4 domains: health system determinants, service delivery, risk factors, and outcomes/impacts. The guidance helps countries align their monitoring efforts with WH...
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11 Nov 2024
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) and Older People in Humanitarian Crises – Good Practice GuideThis practical guide by HelpAge International outlines key actions for integrating Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) into humanitarian responses for older people. Covering preparedness, response, and recovery phases, it offers evidence-based strategies to reduce suffering, pro...
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21 Oct 2024
This integrated operational framework provides an overview of the connections between mental health, neurological and substance use (MNS) conditions, and their links to health, well-being and the broader public health and sustainable development agenda. The need for integrated approaches is increasingly recognized as critical to address the complex interactions between mental health, brain health,...
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18 Oct 2024
Social participation is an important means for governments to develop responsive health policies and programmes, which are more likely to be implemented by a broad stakeholder group. It is at the heart of the inclusive governance needed for countries to stake their individual paths towards Universal Health Coverage while ensuring that no one is left behind. As simple as it may seem in theory, i...
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27 Sep 2024
This Handbook walks non-State actors engaging with the World Health Organization (WHO) through the principles and processes of the Framework of engagement with non-State actors (FENSA) to ensure smooth interaction with WHO. The Handbook does not replace the text of FENSA. The Framework adopted by WHO Member States will be applied by the WHO Secretariat when engaging with non‑State actors.&nbs...
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27 Sep 2024
Monitoring of dietary intake at national and global levels is becoming increasingly important with the changing food systems and diets. Better measurement and monitoring are needed to support governments in establishing policies and programmes to promote healthy diets and assess the effectiveness of these actions. However, there is lack of consensus on the indicators that best capture the properti...
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24 Jul 2024
Recognizing that public sector efforts alone are insufficient to address the prevention and control of NCDs, the Global NCD Action Plan emphasizes the need for coordinated multisectoral and multistakeholder engagement, acknowledging the role of nongovernmental organizations – including civil society groups, individuals with lived experience, academic institutions and private sector entities. In...
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30 May 2024
This practical guide underscores the importance of involving older people and community stakeholders at every stage of designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating initiatives for healthy ageing. It offers a clear framework to map out current contexts, identify barriers to healthy ageing in low- and middle‑income settings, and co-design locally relevant, inclusive interventions. The guide...
