World Health Organization (WHO)
Global Hearts Initiative
Fact sheet
17 May 2019
To support governments in strengthening the prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), in 2016 WHO and the United States Centers for Disease C...
Fact sheet
17 May 2019
To support governments in strengthening the prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), in 2016 WHO and the United States Centers for Disease C...
Article
15 May 2019
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) constitute a major global health challenge, hampering nations’ economic growth and sustainable development. The four major...
Report
07 May 2019
This report, published on the first-ever Universal Health Coverage Day, highlights the current situation in relation to hospice and palliati...
Report
07 May 2019
This report measures progress of the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goals 4, 5, and 6. T...
Report
24 Apr 2019
The report is submitted in response to resolution WHA71.2 (2018), which “requests the Director-General to report to the Seventy-second World Health Assembl...
Report
08 Apr 2019
This document is a summary of two pilot NCD advocacy courses, one in Thailand and one in Colombia. A Global Advisory Group engaged a Local Organizing Committ...
08 Apr 2019
In this paper the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) proposes that it is lack of investment in the necessary health promotion and...
Report
08 Apr 2019
The goal of this report is to document changes resulting from local projects from the youth in the project to the built environment. It also seeks to capture...
Fact sheet
08 Apr 2019
This fact sheet gives an overview of the different heart diseases and the distribution of different cardiovascular disease types in males and females. ...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
08 Apr 2019
Policy brief on building global capacity NCD prevention in LMICs. Highlights key focus issues and defines priority actions outlined by the DELPHI Study. ...
08 Apr 2019
This brief ‘key messages’ paper aims to better enable IUHPE Officers, Board Members, Regional Committee Members and Members to advocate for health promot...
Article
28 Mar 2019
This comment, published in the Lancet on Strengthening a c...