Report
17 Oct 2018
This report provides a first review of the interactions between climate change, gender and health. It documents evidence for gender differences in health risks that are likely to be exacerbated by climate change, and in adaptation and mitigation measures that can help to protect and promote health.
Guide
17 Oct 2018
The manual is a user-friendly guide aimed to raise awareness and develop skills on gender analysis and gender responsive planning in health sector activities. It is conceptually structured to move from awareness to action throughout a three to four day workshop to reduce gender-based inequities in health.
Fact sheet
17 Oct 2018
An overview of gender, which requires us to ensure that health policy, programmes, services and delivery models are responsive to the needs of women, men, girls and boys in all their diversity.
Guide
17 Oct 2018
This Country Support Package provides country-level support to "leaving no one behind," benefit health information systems, national health policies and strategies, and national health programmes.
Publication
17 Oct 2018
Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989.
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...
Declaration
18 Mar 2018
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...
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...
Article
13 Oct 2017
In agonising, crippling pain from lung cancer, Mr S came to the palliative care service in Calicut, Kerala, from an adjoining district a couple of hours away by bus. His body language revealed the depth of the suffering.We put Mr S on morphine, among other things. A couple of hours later, he surveyed himself with disbelief. He had neither hoped nor conceived of the possibility that this kind of re...
Database
01 Mar 2017
National breast cancer control programs can be developed and implemented at all resource levels. Successful breast cancer programs offer women with breast cancer the best possible outcomes while effectively using available resources. Breast cancer care is most successful when prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment and palliation are integrated and synchronously developed.Breast Health G...
Report
05 Dec 2016
Policy report summarising discussions on how to understand the health needs of Indian women, and create a healthcare system free from gender bias.
Fact sheet
18 Jun 2016
This fact sheet presents data from Armenia’s 2016 STEPS survey on noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors in adults aged 18–69, covering smoking, alcohol, diet, physical activity, overweight/obesity, blood pressure, cholesterol, and salt intake. Highlights: 27.9% currently smoke (mostly men) 34.4% drank alcohol in past 30 days; 5.9% binge drank 76% consumed <5 serving...
